Director, Enterprise Architect

About the role

Sandisk is seeking an experienced enterprise architect to define architecture strategy across business and technology domains, aligning business capabilities, application landscape, data/AI platforms, and cloud infrastructure into a cohesive, outcome-driven architecture.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Define enterprise architecture strategy across business and technology domains, aligning business capabilities, application landscape, data/AI platforms, and cloud infrastructure into a cohesive, outcome-driven architecture
• Partner with business leaders and domain architects to map business capabilities and value streams to enabling technologies, ensuring technology investments directly support business growth, efficiency, and innovation goals
• Lead application and platform architecture evolution, driving modernization of legacy systems, rationalization of the application portfolio, and adoption of scalable, API-first and event-driven integration patterns
• Establish balanced hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, aligning cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), SaaS/PaaS solutions, and on-prem environments to enable agility, resilience, and cost-effective scale
• Drive cross-domain architecture standards and reference models spanning applications, integration, data/AI, security, and infrastructure—ensuring consistency while enabling flexibility for business innovation
• Translate business strategy into executable architecture roadmaps, prioritizing initiatives across business capability gaps, application modernization, and platform investments with clear ROI and measurable outcomes
• Lead enterprise architectural governance (ARB/STARC) to guide design decisions, resolve trade-offs across business and technology domains, manage exceptions, and ensure alignment to risk, security, and compliance requirements
• Champion data and AI as core enterprise capabilities, enabling semantic layer adoption, intelligent automation, and agentic workflows as part of the broader architecture strategy
• Drive value realization and technical debt reduction, continuously measuring architecture effectiveness, business impact, and simplification of the technology estate

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
• 15+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, application/platform architecture, and/or technology strategy in large global organizations
• Proven leadership in driving cross-functional architecture initiatives spanning business, applications, data, and cloud
• Strong ability to translate between business strategy and technical execution

Skills & Expertise

Business & Architecture

• Business capability modeling and value stream mapping
• Enterprise architecture frameworks and governance
• Application portfolio rationalization and modernization
• Integration architecture (API-first, event-driven)

Technology

• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid architectures
• SaaS/PaaS ecosystems and platform engineering
• Data & AI architecture (data platforms, ML/GenAI enablement)
• Security and Zero Trust architecture (working knowledge)

Execution

• Agile and product-based delivery models
• Architecture governance (ARB/STARC or equivalent)
• Technology investment planning and roadmap development

Pay

The salary range for this role is determined by factors including relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, performance, geographic location, shift, internal and external equity, and business needs. The range may be modified in the future. This role is eligible for Sandisk's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan based on Company and individual performance, and may be eligible for the annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program consisting of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires.

Benefits

• Paid vacation time and paid sick leave
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life, accident and disability insurance
• Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Employee assistance program
• Voluntary benefit programs including supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
• Tuition reimbursement
• Transit benefits
• Applause Program
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan

Schedule

This position is based at Sandisk facilities recognized by the World Economic Forum as part of the Global Lighthouse Network for advanced 4IR innovations and Sustainability Lighthouses. Specific schedule details are to be determined based on business needs and location.