Principal Technical Program 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.

F5 is seeking a dynamic and experienced Principal Technical Program Manager (Principal TPM) to lead and manage complex programs and will be responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of cross-functional projects, aligning diverse teams, and driving programs through the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).  This role will serve as a key liaison to align strategic objectives with technical execution, while ensuring F5’s ability to deliver innovative and high-quality products that enable secure and efficient application delivery. 

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Program Leadership: 

• Manage multiple, high-impact programs, ensuring all initiatives are delivered on schedule, within scope, and aligned with business priorities. 

• Drive the execution of programs across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) phases, managing requirements, design, development, testing, integration, and deployment milestones. 

• Develop strong relationships to engage, align, and empower people to deliver 

• Demonstrate ownership and autonomy in owned projects and functional areas and drive delivery of high-quality results 

• Cross-Team Collaboration: 

• Facilitate cross-functional engineering teams to solve business problems and deliver solutions 

• Bring the product vision and the technical build together – become the glue between functional teams 

• Work closely with product management, operations, and subject matter experts to ensure alignment on goals, priorities, and deliverables for programs. 

• Resolve conflicts, address communication gaps, and foster a unified approach to achieving program objectives. 

• Risk Management and Problem Solving: 

• Identify, monitor, and manage risks affecting program execution, proposing actionable solutions and engaging relevant stakeholders to resolve issues quickly. 

• Drive root cause analysis and resolution for technical challenges that hinder collaboration or delivery efforts. 

• Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the team’s ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals 

• Demonstrate ownership and autonomy in owned projects and functional areas and drive delivery of high-quality results 

• Build strategies for issue and risk mitigation and contingency planning 

• Stakeholder Management: 

• Communicate program status, risks, schedules, and dependencies to executive leadership and other stakeholders through dashboards, reports, and presentations. 

• Ensure stakeholder expectations are managed effectively, creating transparency and visibility into program objectives, outcomes, and blockers. 

• Ability to develop strong working relationships to engage, align, and motivate people to deliver 

• Ability to bridge the gap between Product, Engineering, and Architecture groups to facilitate solutions 

• Strong project an