Director, Enterprise Architect

Sandisk; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandisk seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect to define and govern a multi-cloud architecture strategy that aligns business capabilities with technology investments. You will lead modernization efforts and establish governance ensuring security and compliance while enabling scalable enterprise growth.

Responsibilities include driving cross-domain collaboration across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and delivering architecture roadmaps with measurable ROI.

Qualifications

• Define enterprise architecture strategy across business and technology domains.
• Map business capabilities to enabling technologies and value streams.
• Lead modernization of legacy systems and adoption of API-first patterns.

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 to map capabilities to enabling technologies and drive technology investments for growth and innovation.
• Lead governance (ARB/STARC) to ensure risk, security, and compliance alignment and guide design decisions.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud strategy

Governance frameworks

Cross-domain collaboration

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Description

Sandisk understands how people and businesses consume data and we relentlessly innovate to deliver solutions that enable today’s needs and tomorrow’s next big ideas. With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world we’re living in and that we have the power to shape.

Sandisk meets people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibility forward. We do this through the balance of our powerhouse manufacturing capabilities and our industry-leading portfolio of products that are recognized globally for innovation, performance and quality.

Sandisk has two facilities recognized by the World Economic Forum as part of the Global Lighthouse Network for advanced 4IR innovations. These facilities were also recognized as Sustainability Lighthouses for breakthroughs in efficient operations. With our global reach, we ensure the global supply chain has access to the Flash memory it needs to keep our world moving forward.

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.

Additional Information

Sandisk is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender‑related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law poster.

Sandisk thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

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