Solutions Engineer, Financial Services
- Dublin
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Drive the Sales Motion: Partner with Enterprise Account Executives through the full sales cycle, from technical discovery and qualification through POCs, security reviews, and final technical close.
- Design Tailored Architectures: Create solution designs that map F5's AI security capabilities to complex FS environments, including hybrid cloud, legacy cores, and existing data platforms.
- Execute High-Impact Demos: Build and deliver compelling demonstrations of inference-layer protection, model red-teaming, and agent defense that prove value against FS success criteria like fraud reduction and compliance.
- Navigate Risk & Compliance: Serve as a domain expert on AI/model risk, operational resilience, and regulatory frameworks, leading technical responses for RFIs/RFPs and security questionnaires.
- Influence the Product Roadmap: Work cross-functionally with Engineering and Product teams to relay field feedback from FS customers, ensuring our AI security portfolio evolves with industry-specific needs.
- Ensure Customer Success: Support the onboarding of new wins, providing clear architectural documentation and best-practice handovers to the Customer Success team.
- Experience: 5+ years in a customer-facing technical role (Solutions Engineer, Security Architect, or similar) within enterprise B2B SaaS.
- Technical Domain Expertise: A strong background in cybersecurity and AI, with hands-on understanding of LLMs, inference-layer guardrails, and data protection in production environments.
- Industry Knowledge: Practical familiarity with FS reference architectures, risk management, and compliance topics such as AML/KYC and data privacy.
- Strategic Communication: The ability to translate complex AI security challenges into simple, actionable narratives for both technical teams and non-technical executives.
- Desired Background: Experience supporting global banks or payment networks, or a background in software/ML engineering before moving into customer-facing roles.
- Market Impact: High win-rates on qualified opportunities and successful POC execution within the FS vertical.
- Speed to Value: Rapid adoption of initial AI security use cases for new FS customers.
- Sales Partnership: Acting as a proactive "co-pilot" to Account Executives, providing dependable technical leadership in high-stakes meetings.
- Architectural Excellence: Delivering high-quality solution designs that satisfy rigorous FS security reviews and penetration-test findings.