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F5

Solution Architect - Marketing

F5, Seattle, Washington, us, 98127

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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 F5's 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 F5's marketing initiatives across all digital engagement channels. Lead solution design and implementation for F5's 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: Sanity.io or similar headless CMS User Interfaces built using modern front-end frameworks such as React.js and Typescript Coveo Tealium Marketo (and a multitude of 3

rd

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: $193,600.00 - $290,400.00

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 F5's 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 F5's benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. 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 @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or

@myworkday.com)

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 accommodations@f5.com.