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.
We are seeking a highly technical and experienced Solution Architect and Technical Lead to lead the design development and integration of enterprise-level Marketing Systems. This role will play a critical part in shaping F5s digital experiences across web email events and other channels of engagement.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in both web experience management and marketing automation platform ecosystems to support processes across awareness demand generation campaign event and lead management.
Key Responsibilities:
Architecture & Strategy:
Design end-to-end solutions to support F5s marketing initiatives across all digital engagement channels. Lead solution design and implementation for F5s web experiences built on modern headless CMS technology
Ensure experiences are performant secure and globally highly available and highly optimized for SEO/GEO and on-domain search.
Ensure seamless integration with mid-funnel marketing systems sales systems data warehouse and other enterprise systems.
Define and maintain architecture roadmaps aligned with marketing objectives data strategies and enterprise architecture standards.
Evaluate new marketing tools and platforms providing strategic guidance on fit scalability and integration feasibility.
Technical Leadership and Cross-functional Collaboration:
Provide hands-on leadership of development projects to support new features and functionality
Ensure accurate scoping and sizing of projects for predictable delivery
Anticipate and remove technical roadblocks through collaboration and creative problem-solving working with engineering teams internal to F5 and vendors.
Partner closely with marketing sales operations analytics IT and external vendors to gather requirements and translate them into scalable solutions.
Lead technical design sessions and guide developers and engineers during implementation. Provide ongoing mentorship for junior team members.
Innovation and Efficiency:
Continuously innovate to improve development efficiency improve team throughput and quality
Lead AI use-case definition and implementation across engineering and stakeholder teams within Marketing.
Governance & Best Practices:
Define and enforce architectural best practices data governance standards and platform usage guidelines.
Provide documentation technical mentorship and knowledge transfer across teams.
Required Qualifications:
7 years of experience in technology architecture solution design or technical consulting with a strong focus on marketing technologies.
Proven experience architecting and integrating platforms such as:
or similar headless CMS
User Interfaces built using modern front-end frameworks such as Re and Typescript
Coveo
Tealium
Marketo (and a multitude of 3rd party plug-ins for event campaign and lead management)
Strong understanding of marketing business processes:
Demand generation
Campaign management and evaluation
Event and webinar management
Lead scoring and lifecycle management
Segmentation and personalization
Marketing performance analytics
Experience designing data pipelines integrating APIs and working with customer data platforms (CDPs) DMPs or similar.
Familiarity with modern data stacks (e.g. Snowflake Segment Amplitude etc.) is a plus.
Hands-on experience with workflow automation tools middleware (e.g. Mulesoft Workato) and cloud infrastructure (Vercel AWS GCP Azure).
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with agile methodologies and tools like AzureDev Ops Confluence
Marketo certification a plus
Knowledge of privacy regulations and compliance (e.g. GDPR CCPA) in relation to marketing technologies and data handling.
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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: $193600.00 - $290400.00F5 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.
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