Architecture Operations Manager

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.

You'll run the operating engine behind the AI & Enterprise Architecture organization — the rhythm, governance, and execution discipline that lets a team of enterprise architects and AI delivery move in one direction. This role turns the strategy into a calendar, a budget, and a tracked set of outcomes, and is the single point of accountability for how the function runs.

Required skills

• 8+ years in technology operations, business operations, or program management, including 3+ years supporting an engineering, architecture, or platform organization.

• Own the operating rhythm: weekly staff meetings, monthly business reviews, quarterly OKR cycles, and the all-hands cadence — including the agendas, pre-reads, and follow-through that make them worth holding.

• Run the financial and headcount operations for the org: budget planning, monthly accruals, vendor spend tracking, requisition pipeline, and the reconciliation work that keeps Finance and HR aligned.

• Operate the architecture governance forums — Architecture Review Board (ARB), intake queues, exception requests, and standards publication — including the SLAs, metrics, and escalation paths.

• Drive executive communications, SLT pre-reads, narrative decks, talking points, and the synthesis work that turns ten architect updates into one coherent story.

• Lead cross-cutting programs that don't have a natural owner — capability assessments, org-wide tooling rollouts — and close them out without dropping threads.

Preferred skills

• Background in enterprise architecture, platform engineering, or a closely related technical discipline — enough fluency to push back on an architect's status report without losing credibility.

• Experience operating enterprise vendor relationships and contracts (hyperscaler agreements, enterprise software licenses, professional services SOWs) end-to-end.

• Track record of building the operating system for a newly formed or rapidly scaling function — playbooks, dashboards, and the first version of metrics that didn't exist before.

• Working knowledge of Atlassian (Jira, Confluence), ServiceNow, and the standard portfolio and reporting tools that an EA org runs on.

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: $147,200.00 - $220,800.00

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.