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Senior Architect, Identity Access Management
About F5
At F5, our mission is to power and protect every app—anywhere. Within the Infrastructure & Security organization, we deliver the platforms, tools, and practices that secure and scale F5’s global business. As we continue to grow, strong architectural leadership and disciplined identity solutions are critical to supporting the company’s 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 F5’s 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.
Bachelor’s 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 @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 [email protected].
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience in Identity & Access Management
- Hands-on experience designing and integrating enterprise IAM platforms
- Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, federation, and modern identity protocols
- Experience defining architecture standards, reference designs, and governance models
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
F5 Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about F5 and has not been reviewed or approved by F5.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity grants and an employee stock purchase plan are positioned as meaningful parts of total compensation, with RSUs and a discount ESPP commonly included. Pay packages for many technical roles are considered competitive when equity is taken into account.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid vacation that increases with tenure, sick time, paid holidays, and paid family leave are prominently featured. Additional programs like volunteer time and periodic wellness long weekends are highlighted as part of the time-off ecosystem.
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Inclusive Benefits Coverage — Health plans include travel support for specific care (such as reproductive and gender‑affirming services) and mental health resources, alongside comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage. These elements are presented as part of a broad, inclusive approach to healthcare.
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What We Do
F5 application services ensure that applications are always secure and perform the way they should—in any environment and on any device. F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) powers applications from development through their entire life cycle, across any multi-cloud environment, so our customers – enterprise businesses, service providers, governments, and consumer brands—can deliver differentiated, high-performing, and secure digital experiences.
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