Principal AI​/Business Intelligence Data Analyst

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.

We are seeking a Principal AI/Business Intelligence Data Analyst to define, lead, and scale this transformation. This role sits at the intersection of data, business processes, and technology, shaping the creation of trusted, connected, and AI‑ready data foundations that support F5’s future digital identity at an enterprise level. This is not a traditional data governance/management role. You will directly contribute to enabling F5’s long‑term AI strategy through high‑quality, connected, and insight‑ready data by:

• Translating complex business needs into enterprise‑scale data and insight solutions
• Influencing how data flows across systems to enable advanced analytics and AI use cases
• Driving a shift toward data as a product, where quality, accessibility, governance, and usability are embedded into the design of systems

• Lead analysis and redesign of business processes and data flows to enable enterprise‑wide data connectivity and insight generation, leveraging modern data quality tools, frameworks, and techniques
• Identify, prioritize, and drive initiatives that transition manual data handling to automated, intelligence‑driven, and scalable solutions
• Define and guide the development of AI‑ready data foundations, ensuring data is structured, governed, and accessible for predictive and machine learning use cases across the enterprise
• Translate complex, ambiguous business problems into strategic data requirements and solution frameworks that support:
  • Reporting and dashboards
  • Predictive analytics
  • AI/ML initiatives
  • Streamlined, scalable operational processes
• Lead the design and evolution of data governance and metadata strategies, emphasizing automation, usability, and long‑term sustainability
• Partner with engineering, architecture, and data teams to shape and influence the design of scalable data pipelines, models, and platform capabilities
• Contribute to and influence the development of enterprise data products, ensuring alignment with business strategy and analytics needs
• Guide testing, validation, and business adoption approaches to ensure successful delivery and measurable outcomes
• Establish and evolve data lifecycle management practices, including creation, updates, and remediation across systems
• Operate as a key connector between business context and technical execution, driving alignment across senior stakeholders
• Identify and communicate risks, dependencies, and opportunities to influence data strategy, investment decisions, and prioritization
• Proactively drive improvements to data capabilities in support of AI, advanced analytics, and future‑state business processes
• Contribute thought leadership to evolve the organization’s approach toward data transformation, insight generation, and intelligent automation
• Drive strategies to maximize the value of data assets, including data cataloging, lineage, discoverability, and marketplace capabilities
• Lead root cause analysis of systemic data issues, identifying patterns and implementing sustainable, cross‑functional solutions

• Advanced technical, analytical, problem‑solving, and systems‑thinking capabilities
• Demonstrated ability to operate with high autonomy and accountability, driving outcomes in complex, ambiguous environments
• Strong ability to influence without authority and align diverse stakeholders across Business, Technology, and Data organizations
• Expertise in framing complex problems and driving enterprise‑scale solutions aligned to long‑term strategy
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, able to…