Senior Architect, Identity Access Management
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14 hours ago
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Job Summary
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.
Senior Architect Identity Access Management
About F5
At F5 our mission is to power and protect every appanywhere. Within the Infrastructure & Security organization we deliver the platforms tools and practices that secure and scale F5s global business. As we continue to grow strong architectural leadership and disciplined identity solutions are critical to supporting the companys workforce and application ecosystem.
Position Summary
The Senior Architect of Identity Access Management (IAM) is responsible for the strategic design architecture and governance of IAM technologies supporting F5s workforce and internal applications. Reporting to the Senior Manager of IAM this role provides technical leadership across identity platforms ensuring scalable secure and well-integrated solutions. The ideal candidate blends deep IAM expertise with strong stakeholder partnership and documentation rigor.
Key Responsibilities
Develop and maintain a multi-year IAM technology roadmap aligned with organizational goals and future business needs.
Establish frameworks for operationalizing IAM in hybrid and multi-cloud scenarios.
Champion the implementation of Zero Trust principles ensuring never trust always verify policies across workforce and customer identities.
Recommend strategies to integrate IAM with enterprise security functions (e.g. SIEM UEBA and SOC workflows).
Design architecture for secure API authentication protocols like OAuth 2.0 OpenID Connect and RESTful services.
Navigate challenges associated with linking on-premises IAM solutions with cloud-based IAM frameworks.
Develop architecture to ensure unified user identity and smooth transitions to hybrid or cloud-first models.
Evaluate and select IAM solutions managing vendor relationships and ensuring alignment with organizational requirements.
Architect solutions for Privileged Access Management to secure and monitor high-level access roles and credentials.
Create IAM-specific disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
Ensure IAM systems comply with regulatory requirements (e.g. GDPR HIPAA PCI DSS SOX).
Qualifications
8 years of experience in Identity & Access Management including architecture or senior technical roles.
Hands-on experience designing and integrating enterprise IAM platforms such as Microsoft Entra ID Okta Ping or similar.
Strong understanding of authentication authorization federation and modern identity protocols (SAML OAuth OIDC).
Experience defining architecture standards reference designs and governance models.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or related field (or equivalent experience).
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in regulated industries or public company environments.
Familiarity with Zero Trust architecture and cloud-native identity solutions.
Familiarity with Zero Trust architecture and Identity Governance & Administration (IGA).
Security or architecture certifications such as CISSP CISM or TOGAF.
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.
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 .
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About Company
F5 application services ensure that applications are always secure and perform the way they should—in any environment and on any device.
