Sr. Director, AI Business Architecture & Enterprise Adoption

At Net App, 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, Net App is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.

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 Net App'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. Net App 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Lead global teams responsible for business relationship management, requirements definition, solution architecture, application development,…