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.
Solution Architect - Integrations
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.
**Job Summary : **
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 isn't 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's producing extraordinary results — not only for our customers, but also for our employees. We understand that your life is about more than just work, so we're committed to a culture that supports your whole life.
As an Integrations Solution Architect, you will serve as the subject matter expert for enterprise integration platforms specifically Dell Boomi and Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC). You will work closely with cross-functional teams to analyze business requirements, assess technical feasibility, and design robust integration solutions aligned with strategic roadmaps across the organization. You will collaborate with Enterprise Architects, Software Engineers, and Product Teams to envision, design, and implement end-to-end integration solutions. Join us in shaping the future of our organization through innovative integration design and implementation.
What You'll Do
- Apply advanced technical principles, techniques, theories, and concepts in the domain of enterprise integrations. Contribute to the development of new integration standards and best practices.
- Work on unusually complex integration problems and provide solutions that are highly innovative, scalable, and reliable.
- Work toward predetermined long-range integration architecture goals and objectives. Assignments are often self-initiated; determine and pursue courses of action necessary to obtain desired results.
- Develop advanced integration architecture ideas and guide their design into final, production-ready solutions using Dell Boomi and Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC).
- Ensure alignment between the Enterprise Architecture (EA) roadmap and integration solutions being delivered.
- Collaborate with delivery teams during application design, assisting product teams with interoperability, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security of integration solutions.
- Design, build, and govern end-to-end integration flows, APIs, and data pipelines across SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS platforms using Boomi AtomSphere and OIC.
- Lead the design of API-led connectivity strategies and manage the full API lifecycle, including creation, versioning, security, and deprecation.
- Define and enforce integration standards, patterns, and reusable frameworks across the enterprise.
- Own and drive proof-of-concept (PoC) and Spike story efforts related to integration platform capabilities and new use cases.
- Describe the structure, characteristics, behavior, and other aspects of integration solutions to business stakeholders in a clear and accessible manner.
- Partner with engineers to troubleshoot and provide solutions for production integration issues.
- Participate in vendor corrective action meetings (with Dell, Oracle, or other vendors), providing suggestions or alternatives to resolve problems.
- Prepare and present integration designs and any known exceptions to the Architecture Review Board (ARB).
- Develop and evolve the Integration Architecture roadmap and portfolio.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
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
Integration Platform Expertise:
- Hands-on expertise with Dell Boomi AtomSphere, including Boomi Flow, Boomi API Management, connectors, process building, and Atom/Molecule/Cloud deployment models.
- Deep proficiency in Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), including OIC Gen2/Gen3, Integration Adapters (REST, SOAP, FTP, DB, Oracle SaaS Adapters), Process Automation, and Visual Builder.
- Experience designing and implementing B2B/EDI integrations, event-driven integrations, and batch processing workflows.
- Familiarity with Oracle SaaS applications (e.g., Oracle ERP Cloud, HCM, SCM) and their native integration with OIC.
Architecture & Design Skills:
- Experienced with modern integration patterns and techniques such as API-led connectivity, Pub/Sub, Event Streaming, ESB, and Microservices-based integration.
- Proficiency in Event-Driven Architectures (EDA), enabling the design of responsive and scalable systems.
- Experience with one or more cloud service providers (Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP) and their respective integration environments.
- Advanced skills in architectural paradigms such as Object-Oriented, Functional, or Event-Driven development.
- Proven ability to design solutions that are scalable, maintainable, and adhere to policies, standards, and best practices.
Data & Technical Skills:
- Database and data modeling experience with a strong understanding of relational database concepts.
- Experienced in manipulating large datasets across heterogeneous systems and with data integration technologies and solutions.
- Experience with REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and other API standards.
- Familiarity with message brokers (e.g., Kafka, JMS, RabbitMQ) and their integration with Boomi/OIC.
Process & Collaboration:
- Experience with Agile software development processes, including participating in sprints, backlog refinement, and iterative delivery.
- Experience in enterprise architecture frameworks and one or more Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) tools.
- Experience working with multiple, large enterprise platforms and a diverse technology environment.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, communication, planning, problem-solving, troubleshooting, facilitation, and organizational skills.
- Strong influencing, coaching, mentoring, and leadership skills.
- Deep analytical skills with meticulous attention to detail, enabling the identification and resolution of complex technical integration challenges.
- Collaborative approach to working with cross-functional teams, actively contributing to identifying business requirements and assessing technical feasibility.
- Commitment to staying up-to-date with emerging integration technologies and industry trends.
Qualifications
- Btech/BE/MCA in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum 10+ years of experience in technical role in Information Technology.
- Minimum 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or Solutions/Integrations Architect.
- Minimum 5+ years of hands-on experience with Dell Boomi (AtomSphere, API Management, Boomi Flow).
- Minimum 5+ years of hands-on experience with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC).
- Dell Boomi Professional/Architect Certification preferred.
- Oracle Integration Cloud Specialist Certification preferred.
- Experience integrating enterprise platforms such as Salesforce, SAP, Oracle ERP/HCM, Workday, ServiceNow, or similar.
- Experience in supporting or implementing large-scale enterprise integration programs is a strong plus.
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.
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.