Executes the vision, future direction, and initiative roadmap for strategic infrastructure technology programs, with a focus on application delivery and traffic management architectures, including F5 load balancing platforms. Defines architectures that support application availability, performance, and resilience.

**This hybrid role (in office Tues-Wed-Thurs) can be based in Charlotte, NC, Dallas, TX, Wayne, PA, or Scottsdale AZ**

Responsibilities:

• Provides the architectural leadership in shaping strategic, infrastructure technology programs and planning
• Leverages knowledge capital available through subscription research services and critical resources for related knowledge capital, inclusive of blogs, podcasts, webinar, etc.
• Produces technology roadmaps, defines reference and implementation architectures, and develops proof-of-concept prototypes and initial implementation models.
• Ensures implementation solutions support architecture objectives (availability, scalability, performance, security, etc.), as appropriate, and monitors implementation activities to ensure architecture and design principles are upheld.
• Utilizes partnership skills especially in the areas of persuasion, influence, conceptualizing solutions and problem solving.
• Communicates complicated technical concepts effectively to a broad group of stakeholders.
• Establishes relationships with IT leaders, architects, and technical specialists for the purpose of advancing proposed architectural solutions, and ensuring availability of infrastructure technologies and support.
• Possesses deep understanding of the competitive landscape and corporate and business unit strategies to provide context for architectural decision making.
• Identifies and mitigates risks of introducing architecture technology enhancements, ensures that IT project teams comply with IT Governance policies and procedures.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
• Defines enterprise application delivery architectures, including load balancing, traffic steering, and resiliency patterns.
• Leads the design and governance of F5 load balancer platforms supporting critical business applications.
• Establishes standards for L4/L7 traffic management, SSL offload, health monitoring, and high‑availability configurations.
• Ensures application delivery architectures align with performance, scalability, and security requirements.
• Partners with application, middleware, and security teams to ensure consistent end‑to‑end application flow design.

Education & Experience:

• Minimum of eight years related work experience, with at least three years of technology architect experience.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
• Strong expertise in application delivery and load balancing concepts.
• Architectural experience with F5 platforms, including enterprise‑scale deployments.
• Deep understanding of application traffic patterns, availability models, and performance optimization.