Director, Enterprise Architect in Milpitas

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define and drive enterprise architectural direction in partnership with cloud, network, security, data/AI, SaaS/PaaS, and business-domain architects, ensuring coherent end-to‑end outcomes across the enterprise.
• Establish secure hybrid and multi-cloud architectures
  , aligning on‑prem, cloud platforms, networks (SD‑WAN), and Zero Trust access models to enable scalable, resilient, and compliant operations.
• Coordinate cross-domain architecture standards and reference designs covering application platforms, integration, data, AI, and security to accelerate delivery while minimizing fragmentation and technical debt.
• Lead architectural governance via ARB
  , facilitating design reviews, resolving cross-domain trade‑offs, managing exceptions, and ensuring alignment to enterprise risk, security, and compliance objectives.
• Translate business strategy into executable architecture roadmaps
  , working with business and technology leaders to prioritize investments, guide modernization, and measure architectural value and risk reduction.

• BS/MS Computer Science/Electrical Engineering
• 15 years experience with large global organizations
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering, should have leadership experiences, and driving cross‑functional technical discussions

• Security, Networking, Cloud, Infrastructure, SD‑WAN, Agile Methodology, Cloud Migration, AWS, GCP, Azure, Infrastructure‑As‑Code, Data and AI

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Based on our experience, we anticipate that the Final date to receive applications will be 07/08/2026 (3 months from posting), although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the Final date to receive applications. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the Final date to receive applications, we will update this posting with a new anticipated Final date to receive applications.

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York.
  
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• You will be eligible to participate in Sandisk's Short‑Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive…