Director, Technology Services

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.

Position 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. It means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each can thrive.
Life at F5 is never dull. We are constantly identifying industry trends and disruptions, then innovating to get ahead of future customer needs—creating application services that help the world’s leading organizations deliver their critical business apps faster and with the highest levels of flexibility, security, performance, and support.
But our success is not driven solely by what we do. We also care deeply about how we do it. At F5, our culture is how we live, every single day, and it is producing outstanding results—not only for our customers, but also for our employees. We understand that your life is about more than just work, so we are committed to a culture that supports your whole life.

Role Summary 
 
We are seeking dynamic leadership to build, develop and manage the technical talent that will enable Technology Services to deliver on F5’s strategic missions and promises. Your product is the talent that will drive our company forward. 
  
In this role you will lead a team of ServiceNow, Oracle EBS and other Corporate Applications engineers focusing on ensuring that our engineering delivery teams have the right people in the right places, building for future needs, and fostering new skills coordinated with business needs. You will partner with key stakeholders throughout the organization to drive business growth and cultivate a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and ongoing improvement.

What you’ll do 
•    Align with solution owners, managers, value stream leads and leadership to ensure workstream talent needs are addressed and proactively planned for. 
•    Work with strategy, engineering center of excellence, and value stream leads to identify which industry trends and best practices to implement.
•    Provide staffing inputs for feature breakdown, conceptual architecture, and business case planning during intake. 
•    Co-ordinate large cross value stream release plans.
•    Be a trusted advisor and mentor to employees, offering guidance on career planning, goal setting, and skill enhancement. 
•    Conduct regular talent management practices, leaning into the continuous development of employees’ skills, interests, and aspirations to identify opportunities for advancement. 
•    Create a positive and supportive learning-oriented environment that encourages employees to develop new skills, acquire knowledge, and explore career pathways. 
•    Promote knowledge sharing and cross-functional collaboration among team members to enhance their professional development. 
•    Collaborate with senior leadership and HR to establish a roadmap for career growth initiatives, including training programs, mentorship opportunities, and performance feedback mechanisms.    
•    Foster an innovation culture by encouraging and supporting new ideas, providing opportunities for experimentation and learning, and recognizing and rewarding creativity and innovation.
•    Being a champion and advocate for engineering excellence and ensuring that the standards, guidance, and ways of working are adopted and adhered to.
•    Leverage your partnership with our Talent Acquisition capability to attract and hire qualified and talented employees. 

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.

What you’ll bring  
•    Excellent coach/mentor skills 
•    Comfortable leading and participating in cross enterprise improvement initiatives. 
•    Demonstrated experience building and leading technical teams.  
•    Exceptional social, planning, documentation, and organization skills. 
•    An understanding of Enterprise Platforms like ServiceNow and Oracle EBS 
•    Excellent communication (fluency in English language) and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with solution owners, engineering directors and other key stakeholders.  
•    Knowledge & experience across the whole spectrum of IT-related functions.
•    Use of ITSM standards and standard methodology for implementation in an IT environment.
•    Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions.
•    Has strong understanding of software development life cycle, lean agile principles. 
•    Willingness to handle global teams and cross geography reporting teams.

Qualifications
•    Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering, or equivalent software engineering work experience.
•    10+ years IT management experience required.
•    5+ years of experience in managing large geographically distributed teams.
•    No restrictions on the ability to travel to domestic & international locations.

F5 Networks, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.
 

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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.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Yello/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.