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.

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.

F5 is seeking a visionary Sr. Manager, Platform Services to join our Digital Employee Experience (EX) organization. In this role, you will lead the platform services engineer team responsible for our core employee-facing platforms and services. This leadership role is central to our mission of delivering a world-class digital workplace. You will oversee the teams managing our Service Now instance, driving integration services, ensuring quality engineering, and accelerating our use of AI and automation. Your leadership will be instrumental in transforming our employee experience from a support function to a strategic driver of engagement and organizational resilience.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Management: Lead and manage a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and architects responsible for the Digital, GRC, and Functional PODs. Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and engineering excellence.
• Strategic Platform Ownership: Define and execute the strategic vision for the Digital EX platform services, including Service Now, integration services, and automation. Ensure alignment with the overall EX pillar strategy and business goals.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with the Delivery Leaders for People, Finance & Legal business systems to understand and meet the functional G&A business needs.
• Resource Planning & Execution: Manage resourcing for your teams, including identifying skill gaps and planning for future needs through both full-time hires and consulting partners. Drive the execution of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time and within budget.
• Operational Excellence: Drive the operational excellence of our platforms, ensuring they are reliable, scalable, and secure. Implement best practices for software development, QA, and platform management.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the primary point of contact for platform-related initiatives, communicating progress, risks, and strategies to senior leadership and key stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise software or IT, with at least 3 years in a leadership or management role.
• Experience in Enterprise Application and Integration architecture.
• Proven track record of managing engineering teams responsible for development, QA, and Systems admins
• Strong understanding of modern software development methodologies (Agile, DevOps) and experience implementing them.
• Experience managing platforms like Service Now.
• Experience with enterprise integration strategies and technologies like Boomi, OIC, Workato, etc.
• Experience in Automation and AI implementations for Business Systems & Productivity applications
• Experience with establishing quality engineering across functional areas such as Finance, Procurement, etc.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• A strategic mindset with the ability to translate business goals into a clear technical strategy.

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 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: $199,200.00 - $298,800.00

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.