Sr. Director, AI Business Architecture & Enterprise Adoption

NetApp; Morrisville (NC); Hybrid; USD 228,000 - 339,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Retirement plans

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid time off

Job summary

NetApp seeks a Sr. Director of Enterprise Applications to lead strategy, delivery, and optimization for Finance, Supply Chain, HR, and Legal. You will drive multi-year roadmaps, modernize platforms, and oversee global teams—delivering scalable, secure, high-performing enterprise solutions.

This role partners with executive leadership to align priorities with business outcomes. The candidate will champion AI-enabled automation and digital capabilities, shaping NetApp's operating model while

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant technology, enterprise applications, ERP, or business systems experience.
• 5+ years of people management responsibility.
• Experience leading enterprise applications teams across Finance, Supply Chain, HR and Legal.
• 5+ years of Oracle ERP implementations, lifecycle management, integrations, enhancements, and support.

Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise applications portfolio across Finance, Supply Chain, HR, Legal and related capabilities with alignment to IT strategy and security requirements.
• Define and drive multi-year enterprise applications strategy including future-state architecture, modernization, AI integration, and roadmaps.
• Partner with senior business and IT leaders to prioritize investments and deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Establish an operating model and governance for enterprise applications across functions and vendors.

Skills

Enterprise apps leadership

Strategic IT planning

Executive communication

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Oracle ERP

Cloud platforms (SaaS/PaaS)

Job description

Own Every Moment at NetApp

At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud. Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.

Job Summary

Reporting to the CIO, the Sr. Director of Enterprise Applications will lead the strategy, business alignment, delivery, and optimization of enterprise applications supporting Finance, Supply Chain, HR and Legal. This leader will oversee multiple functional application areas and provide direction to global teams responsible for business relationship management, requirements definition, solution architecture, application development, implementation, support, and continuous improvement. As a senior member of the IT leadership team, the Sr. Director will partner with business and technology leaders to translate enterprise priorities into scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions. The role will shape multi-year application strategies, guide portfolio prioritization, influence investment decisions, manage strategic vendor relationships, and lead through directors, managers, employees, contractors, and implementation partners. This leader will help shape NetApp's future operating model by leveraging enterprise applications, AI, automation, and digital capabilities to accelerate enterprise transformation, improve business performance, and deliver measurable business outcomes. The successful candidate will act as a trusted strategic advisor to executive leaders, bringing an external perspective on emerging technologies, enterprise platforms, AI innovation, intelligent automation, and industry best practices. NetApp seeks a collaborative, forward-looking leader who can build a service-oriented organization recognized by the business as a trusted partner for innovation, operational excellence, and measurable business impact.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise applications portfolio supporting Finance, Supply Chain, HR, Legal, and related business capabilities, ensuring alignment with business priorities, IT strategy, security requirements, and enterprise architecture.


• Define and lead the multi-year enterprise applications strategy, including future-state architecture, platform modernization, application rationalization, AI integration, and business capability roadmaps.


• Partner with senior business and IT leaders to define priorities, evaluate trade-offs, align investments, and deliver measurable business outcomes.

Product Operating Model & Governance

• Define and evolve the operating model governing how business functions and IT jointly prioritize, fund, govern, deliver, and continuously improve enterprise application capabilities.


• Establish clear decision rights, accountability models, governance processes, investment frameworks, and performance measures across Finance, Supply Chain, HR, Legal, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Data, and AI organizations.


• Establish a product-based approach across the enterprise applications portfolio, emphasizing product vision, roadmap management, adoption, user experience, value realization, and continuous optimization.

Delivery & Operational Excellence

• Lead global teams responsible for business relationship management, requirements definition, solution architecture, application development, integration, implementation, support, and continuous improvement.


• Partner with enterprise architecture, data, cybersecurity, and infrastructure teams to modernize, simplify, secure, and scale the enterprise applications ecosystem.

AI, Automation & Digital Transformation

• Drive adoption of AI-enabled tools, intelligent automation, predictive insights, and workflow optimization across enterprise applications and business processes.


• Launch and oversee AI pilots and transformation programs in partnership with data, security, legal, architecture, and business leaders to ensure responsible, compliant, and value‑driven adoption.


• Identify opportunities to improve business performance through process simplification, automation, analytics, and modern digital capabilities.

Outside-In Innovation & Technology Leadership

• Continuously benchmark enterprise application capabilities against industry leaders, emerging technologies, and best practices.


• Maintain awareness of trends in ERP modernization, AI innovation, intelligent automation, digital workflows, composable architectures, SaaS platforms, and enterprise technology ecosystems.


• Translate external insights and market intelligence into actionable strategies that improve agility, employee experience, operational efficiency, and enterprise competitiveness.


• Serve as a thought leader across enterprise technology disciplines while helping shape NetApp's long‑term digital transformation agenda.

Vendor & Talent Leadership

• Manage strategic vendor and implementation partner relationships, including contract negotiation, roadmap alignment, performance management, service levels, and delivery outcomes.


• Recruit, develop, and retain high-performing leaders and teams, including managers, architects, analysts, developers, service managers, product leaders, and AI-enabled application talent.


• Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, continuous learning, and customer‑focused service delivery.

Job Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant technology, enterprise applications, ERP, or business systems experience, including 5+ years of people management responsibility.


• Proven experience leading enterprise applications teams across multiple business functions, ideally including Finance, Supply Chain, HR and Legal and related domains.


• 5+ years of experience with Oracle ERP implementations, lifecycle management, integrations, enhancements, and support; Oracle ERP Cloud experience preferred.


• Demonstrated ability to lead through managers, senior technical leaders, employees, contractors, vendors, and implementation partners in a global or matrixed environment.


• Strong understanding of enterprise application strategy, SaaS/cloud platforms, integration architecture, data flows, application lifecycle management, and operational support.


• Experience identifying, launching, or scaling AI‑enabled tools, automation programs, analytics capabilities, or intelligent workflow solutions.


• Knowledge of emerging trends in AI, machine learning, intelligent automation, PaaS, SaaS, cloud computing, and digital technologies.


• Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business terms and influence senior stakeholders.


• Experience with SOX, GDPR, audit controls, data governance, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance requirements.


• Proven ability to attract, develop, and retain high-performing teams while fostering a culture of accountability, transparency, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Compensation

The target salary range for this position is 227,800 - 338,800 USD. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. The range is based on 'On Target Earnings’ (OTE) representing the total potential earnings, which is the sum of the base salary and potential commission earned when performance targets are achieved. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off, various Leave options, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU’s). These offerings are subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. We will provide detailed information about the specific benefits for your region during the recruitment process.

At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in‑office and/or in‑person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity Employer

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

Why You'll Thrive at NetApp

At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.

NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise‑grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

Our culture

We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.

If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one.

AI Disclosure

For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision-making.