Senior Director, Global Infra & Enterprise Architecture

USA Donaldson Company Inc.

United States

Hybrid

USD 218,000 - 272,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Donaldson Company is seeking a Senior Director, Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture & End User Services based in Bloomington, MN, with a hybrid schedule. You will craft the technology foundation supporting global business, manufacturing, and employees, leading cloud, data center, and workplace services while modernizing infrastructure and embedding security from the start.

You will drive a pragmatic architecture practice, advance automation, AI-enabled support, and a strong digital employee

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
10+ years of progressive information technology experience, including 7+ years leading managers and multidisciplinary enterprise technology teams.
Demonstrated experience developing and executing modernization strategies and multi-year roadmaps across global infrastructure, cloud, architecture, or end user services.
Experience leading enterprise technology services in a complex, distributed environment with accountability for operational performance, financial management, vendors, and major transformation programs.
Experience establishing architecture governance and translating business capabilities and strategy into practical technology standards, investment decisions, and delivery plans.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute a global infrastructure, enterprise architecture, and end user services strategy aligned with business priorities, manufacturing needs, cybersecurity requirements, and the enterprise technology roadmap.
Lead reliable, secure, and cost-effective delivery of global cloud, network, data center, compute, storage, collaboration, endpoint, service desk, and workplace technology services.
Build and mature a pragmatic enterprise architecture function that engages early in business and technology planning, defines scalable target-state architectures and standards, and accelerates sound investment decisions without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
Modernize the technology foundation through cloud and hybrid platforms, automation, infrastructure as code, platform engineering, observability, AIOps, container technologies, and standardized service patterns.
Create an exceptional digital employee experience by improving service quality, device and collaboration capabilities, self-service, knowledge management, experience measurement, and AI-enabled support.
Partner with cybersecurity, applications, data, digital, manufacturing, and business leaders to embed resilience, Zero Trust, secure-by-design, interoperability, and lifecycle management into solutions from the start.
Establish clear roadmaps for technical debt reduction, network and workplace modernization, cloud adoption, SaaS optimization, resilience, and simplification across a complex global environment.
Own service performance, financial management, capacity, continuity, disaster recovery, vendor strategy, sourcing, contracts, and measurable outcomes across the portfolio.
Evaluate emerging technologies and develop practical adoption paths for enterprise AI, automation, edge and industrial computing, modern integration, and new digital business capabilities.
Build, develop, and inspire a high-performing global organization; strengthen leadership depth, product and service ownership, engineering discipline, accountability, and a culture of continuous improvement.
Travel Up to 25%