Hiring: Director, Enterprise Architect Company: Sandisk Location: Milpitas, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 11:50:15 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Azure, Chai, Compliance, Event-Driven, GCP, HBase, PaaS, SaaS About the job Experience: •15+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, application/platform architecture, and/or technology strategy in large global organizations Required Skills: •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 leader Compensation: •$186,947 •$309,672 Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!