Solution Architect

Job Description:

Life at F5 is never dull. We are constantly identifying industry trends and disruptions, then innovating to get ahead of future customer needs—creating application services that help the world’s leading organizations deliver their critical business apps faster and with the highest levels of flexibility, security, performance, and support.

But our success isn’t driven solely by what we do. We also care deeply about how we do it. At F5, our culture is how we live, every single day. And it’s producing outstanding results—not only for our customers, but also for our employees. We understand that your life is about more than just work, so we’re committed to a culture that supports your whole life.

Position Summary:

As a Solution Architect, you will help shape how Technology Services at F5 implements Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools and processes that accelerate the pace of New Product Introduction (NPI). The ideal candidate has demonstrable experience with Product Lifecycle Management systems, a deep understanding of how complex products are designed, developed, and serviced, and experience with solution development in those contexts. This position will also serve to promote best practices and internal business processes with relation to change management and general NPI functions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Be a Solution advisor and be responsible to envision and architect for New Product Launch Introduction.
• Bring in broader thought leadership on Digital transformation and existing/new architecture to future proof the solution.
• Find the best tech solution among all possible to solve the existing business problems and create/document Solution/Epic design for the Value Stream.
• Convince business SMEs on the architected solution.
• Own and drive POC/Spike efforts.
• Ensure technical integration ability of the solution across multiple applications involved.
• Identify, understand and coordinate efforts that have cross team dependencies/impacts.
• Own platform standards and ensure compliance.
• Develop and evolve platform or domain roadmap and portfolio
• Be an Agile development thought leader, driving continuous improvement of our development capabilities.
• Experience in driving system architectural discussions and driving a scalable platform development
• Participate in Solution Architecture Community of Practice.
• Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.
• Partnering with our business system analyst team, troubleshoot and provide solutions for production issues.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• 10 years of deep technical work experience in one or more IT areas including but not limited to the following:
• IT architecture, infrastructure, and development
• Engineering and software architecture design
• Business analysis
• 8+ years of experience in building and implementing PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) Systems.
• Strong PLM solution architecture experience with proven abilities in defining and delivering scalable and sustainable solution architecture in large PLM implementation programs
• Experience working with multiple, large enterprise platforms like Salesforce, CPQ, Oracle, etc.
• In Depth knowledge of SaaS and Cloud subscription-based business model
• Experienced with Web Services (SOAP and Restful), Microservices and API
• Strong software development background utilizing Cloud-based technologies, distributed programming and object-oriented programming constructs
• Experienced with manipulating large datasets across heterogeneous systems
• Experienced with Data Integration technologies and solution
• Solid understanding of business processes and how technology can enhance and improve these processes
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, communication, planning, problem solving, trouble shooting, facilitation and organization skills.
• Strong influencing, coaching, mentoring and leadership skills
• Deep analytical skills and detail oriented

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.

We offer work/life integration programs like Freedom to Flex, dynamic employee inclusion groups, paid maternity/paternity leave, tuition assistance for professional development, a comprehensive mentoring program, rewards/recognition, and so much more. At F5, we truly do help each other thrive and it shows: F5 has been named one of the “World’s Most Admired Companies” by Fortune magazine for the past two years.

And this commitment to living our culture doesn’t just exist within our offices; it extends into our communities through Global Good initiatives such as employee matching, volunteer opportunities, and the F5 Foundation. Our employees are passionate about making a difference in the world.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become part of a company that’s on the leading edge of transformation. And because we know that a more diverse F5 is a more powerful F5, we’re looking for smart, talented, determined individuals to join us. If you make thoughtful decisions quickly, obsess over your customers’ needs, take ownership of your work (the mistakes as well as the successes), and embrace different perspectives by putting the human first, then we want to talk to you.

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