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Sr Solutions Architect

F5

Job Description

Posted on: 
March 3, 2025

Summary and company overview

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

Overview:

F5’s Service Provider Business Unit is on the hunt for a forward-thinking Sr Solution Architect to spearhead the next wave of innovative product and partner integrations. In this role, you’ll be instrumental in creating “1+1=3” outcomes—delivering synergistic solutions that not only satisfy, but enhance the business, technical, operational, functional, and system requirements of our customers and ecosystem partners.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for the establishment of architectures and solutions for F5’s Hyperscaler, Telecoms customers together with product management and development and with key technology partners
  • Engage with partners and prime SI’s on assessing, analyzing and documenting the clients’ business and operational requirements
  • Formulate creative and unique solutions leveraging the capabilities of accelerated computing, cloud and communications technologies from F5 and our ecosystem partners
  • Set up and participate in collaboration teams within cross functional stakeholders, both inside F5 and with partner companies or prime system integrators
  • If necessary, propose and participate in solution prototyping and proof of concepts
  • Document requirements, risks, costs, design, dependencies, and implementation overview for integration to proposals, statements of work with partners
  • Influence changes to standards or product development when necessary.
  • Direct the identification and recommendation of appropriate solutions, upgrades, partner solutions, or teaming options to increase probability of customer selection based on business requirements, functionality, and total cost of ownership.
  • Collaborate with F5 functional departments (Office of the CTO, product management, CISO, system and field engineering, strategic alliances, and support) to incorporate both current and planned F5 technologies, products and solutions into proposals.
  • Participate and assist in the preparation of solution whitepapers and proposals

Job Requirements

Required Qualifications:

  • BS/BA or equivalent work experience
  • 10+ years related industry experience
  • Basic F5 product knowledge or experience in relevant industry offerings

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Relevant certifications, a plus

Additional commentary

What you’ll get:

  • This role reports to the Director for Business Development Service Provider Business Unit
  • While we encourage remote/virtual meetings, the nature of the role could require travel up to 30-40% of the time, and working across time zones
  • This is a self-driven role, so career growth and development are available at every stage of your career.

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

The annual base pay for this position is: $190,720.00 - $286,080.00

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.

Summary and company overview

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

Overview:

F5’s Service Provider Business Unit is on the hunt for a forward-thinking Sr Solution Architect to spearhead the next wave of innovative product and partner integrations. In this role, you’ll be instrumental in creating “1+1=3” outcomes—delivering synergistic solutions that not only satisfy, but enhance the business, technical, operational, functional, and system requirements of our customers and ecosystem partners.

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