Public Sector Senior Architect

F5 Networks•Reston, VA

13h

About The Position

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. The Solutions Architect (SA) position is a technical leadership role supporting a Sales region. Architects are typically assigned a technology area to focus on such as Cloud, AI, DevOps, Security, Service Provider. The SA’s primary function is to work collaboratively with Sales teams to identify appropriate F5 solutions to address customers’ business needs. They provide technical expertise and business understanding across specific or multiple industries. They champion our customers’ requirements and ensure they are understood across other teams within F5 such as Sales, Marketing, Product Management, and Product Development. The SA also shares knowledge and educates the solution engineering team internally and externally via whitepapers, trainings, blogs, tech-tips, presentations etc. To be effective, an SA needs to have excellent technical skills and knowledge of F5 products as well as the “eco-system” in which we operate. Just as importantly, an SA needs strong written and oral communication skills that allow them to translate deep technical concepts into language consumable by a wide-ranging audience. These audiences will range from senior leadership (c-suite) to deeply technical staff. Fear not, we do provide training and certification to keep abreast with these critical skills!

Requirements

Experience in speaking at industry/customer events, publishing whitepapers/solution articles, blogs, tech-tips etc
Extensive experience making product demonstrations and technical presentations to technical and business leads
Deep knowledge of F5 Solutions
Knowledge of legacy technologies and their application in modern platforms, especially Linux, networking, or virtualization
8+ years of related industry experience
5+ years of presales role
BS/BA or equivalent work experience

Nice To Haves

Relevant certifications a plus

Responsibilities

Work on strategic opportunities within the assigned region/area of specialization and provide technical expertise
Where multiple solutions exist, evaluate trade-offs between alternatives from technical and business perspectives
Play the role of an evangelist, and thought leader in your area of technical specialization
Quickly learn adjacent technologies when/where appropriate to extend core knowledge
Collaborate with other solution architects and internal business leaders to share ideas, identify common customer pain points and trends and identify appropriate F5 solutions
Work closely with our internal product management and services teams and provide technical and business understanding for product launches and updates that would be beneficial for our customers
Provide mentorship as needed to the Solution Engineering community in the organization