Principal Technical Prog Mgr – Data & Telemetry

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 Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) is an authority with excellent interpersonal skills strength working cross-functionally with ability to influence and facilitate others to solve business problems and deliver solutions. The position requires a unique blend of business and technical savviness: a big-picture vision the drive to make that vision a reality and technical credibility to engage and drive work with software engineers. The TPM will be presenting complex technical challenges and resolutions to leadership and other stakeholders.

This TPM role will lead our Data and Product Telemetry initiatives across the organization. You will work cross functionally with Business Leaders Product Managers and Data Engineers to define implement and scale telemetry infrastructure that enables insights into product usage customer behavior and system health.

Primary Responsibilities

Communicate and collaborate complex technical challenges and resolutions defining cross-functional work to leadership and other partners

Negotiate challenging priorities and navigate complex organizational dynamics to establish delivery plans forecasts and budgets

Facilitate cross-functional engineering teams to solve business problems and deliver solutions

Bring the product vision and the technical build together become the glue between functional teams

Develop strong relationships to engage align and empower people to deliver

Maintain and continue to develop a broad knowledge of business & technology expertise understand the interconnections between the people the processes and the technology solutions

Bring an outstanding blend of business and technical savvy: a big-picture vision the drive to make that vision a reality and technical credibility to engage with software engineers

Develop report and continually improve performance metrics

Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the teams ability to meet strategic financial and technical goals

Demonstrate ownership and autonomy in owned projects and functional areas and drive delivery of high-quality results

Build strategies for issue and risk mitigation and contingency planning

Lead all aspects of project/program deliverables and adhere to audit/compliance requirements

Support the development of high-performing global teams for effectively handling sophisticated and multifaceted programs

Responsible for upholding F5s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

Ability to develop strong working relationships to engage align and motivate people to deliver

Ability to bridge the gap between Product Engineering and Architecture groups to facilitate solutions

Knowledge of data privacy and governance best practices

Strong project and program management skills

Comfort in technical delivery

Understanding of Agile Delivery Methodology

Understand the importance of building strong working relationships

Effective written and verbal communication

Strong organizational presentation and customer service skills Job Description Template

Ability to quickly master technical concepts

While encouraged to be a facilitator and driver equally comfortable digging into business requirements or drilling into architecture with development teams to solve complex problems

Qualifications

Bachelors degree in computer science information technology or related field

12 years experience in Technical Program IT and/or project management

5 years of experience in a program manager capacity with experience in data intensive initiatives and product telemetry

Experience with Agile and Waterfall program management methodologies

Experience leading a geo-dispersed program team

Experience working in a concurrent software development environment as part of a complex build and merge management process

Technology product development experience is highly desired

Physical Demands and Work Environment

Duties are performed in a normal office environment while sitting at a desk or computer table.

Duties require the ability to utilize a computer communicate over the telephone and read printed material.

Duties may require being on call periodically and working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends).

Duties may require the ability to travel via automobile or airplane approximately 5% of the time spent traveling.

Job may be performed in an office environment sitting at a desk or computer table.

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.

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 F5s 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 F5s benefits can be found at the following link: 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 @) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with or @).

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 .