Digital Sovereignty Architect

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.

Digital Sovereignty Architect

About the Company:   

F5 technologies are at the heart of modern applications that are enabling digital transformation across the globe. We give the world’s largest businesses, service providers, governments, and consumer brands the ability to securely deliver every app, anywhere—with confidence. We do this by working collaboratively in an innovative environment, helping each other succeed. We take great pride in being trusted advisers to our customers, offering the best solutions for their interests. If our mission and culture excite you, we would love to talk to you!

About our job descriptions

When applying for any of the roles in F5, please note, our ideal candidate is not necessarily someone who meets all the posted requirements. In fact this is just a representation of how we know the job has been done in the past. We would love to talk to you even if you don’t check all the boxes here, but believe you bring your own unique capabilities that can be utilized to ensure the success of the role and the organization.

The Digital Sovereignty Architect Job Overview:

The Digital Sovereignty Architect role is part of the Solutions Architect (SA) job family. The SA’s primary function is to work collaboratively with sales teams identifying appropriate F5 solutions to address customers’ business needs. They provide technical expertise and business understanding across specific or multiple industries. They champion our customers’ requirements and ensure they are understood across other teams within F5 such as Sales, Marketing, Product Management, and Product Development. 

The SA also shares knowledge and educates the solution engineering team internally and externally via whitepapers, trainings, demos, blogs, tech-tips, presentations etc.  

To be effective, an SA needs to blend strong business acumen with excellent technical skills and knowledge on both F5 products and the “eco-system” that we work in. He/she needs to be an authority in his/her field of expertise and act as a trusted advisor towards our customers.

While the traditional Solution Architect is focused on going deep on a specific technology, the Digital Sovereignty Architect role is meant to be much broader and wider. The Digital Sovereignty Architect understands and stays up to date with the regulatory landscape regarding all aspects of sovereignty in different parts of the EMEA region. He/she supports the product teams better understand the requirements in the region to help drive product development, and helps marketing and communications teams to develop positioning messages for ADSP within the sovereignty context. He/she is driving architectural discussions with our customers, helping account teams overcome obstacles related to sovereignty in their specific region and/or industry vertical, and develop opportunities to broaden our coverage in their accounts with our full portfolio of solutions.  

What you’ll do? 

• Support accounts teams on strategic opportunities in the EMEA region where sovereignty is a key consideration, and provide architectural guidance leveraging all components in the F5 solution portfolio to meet these requirements. The goal is to listen carefully to the customer’s needs, understand the local regulatory landscape and then position the best possible solutions within the F5 portfolio addressing those requirements.
• Play the role of an evangelist, and thought leader in the area of digital sovereignty 
• Collaborate with other solution architects and internal business leaders to share ideas, identify common customer pain points and trends and identify appropriate F5 solutions 
• Work closely with our internal product management and services teams and provide technical and business understanding for product launches and updates that would be beneficial for our customers 
• Provide mentorship as needed to the Solution Engineering community in the organization and make sure they are enabled and equipped to position our solutions correctly in the context of digital sovereignty

How you’ll do it:

• Playing the role of an evangelist, thought leader, mentor in the field of Digital Sovereignty 
• Act as a liaison between Sales and Marketing, Product Management, Product Development
• Working with strategic business opportunities in your region

What you’ll bring:

• Technical & industry skills
  • Thorough understanding of all aspects of digital sovereignty and it’s implications for vendors of IT and security solutions.
  • Knowledge of regulatory and compliance frameworks related to digital resiliency and sovereignty in the European Union and other countries in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
  • Understanding of application delivery solutions (ADC, DNS, CDN) in hardware, software and SaaS based architectures
  • Understanding of application security solutions (WAF, DDOS mitigation, bot defense, API security, LLM security) in hardware, software and SaaS based architectures
  • Knowledge of F5 Solutions is a bonus
• Other skills
  • Strong verbal and written English communication skills
  • Public speaking skills (events, conferences)
  • Experience with regulatory and compliance frameworks and how to translate these into product requirements  
  • Experience with publishing whitepapers/solution articles, blogs, tech-tips etc
  • Experience with product demonstrations, value propositions and technical presentations to technical and business leads
  • Ability to adapt your message to your audience
  • Architectural problem solving skills
  • Self learner and curious in new technologies
  • Strong business mindset – translating technical features into business outcomes
• Experience & certifications
  • 8+ years of related industry experience
  • Relevant certifications a plus
  • BS/BA or equivalent work experience

What you’ll get:

• This role is based out of – any EMEA country – with flexibility to work from home as well. 
• While we encourage remote/virtual meetings, the nature of the role could require travel up to 30% of the time
• This is a self-driven role, so career growth and development is available at every stage of your career. 
• The position reports to the RVP, Solution Architects EMEA 
• Competitive pay, family friendly benefits, and cool perks
• Tuition assistance for professional development
• Culture of giving back, strong diversity and inclusion interest groups

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 accommodations@f5.com.