Director, Data Architecture

Sandisk • Milpitas, CA

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About The Position

As the Director of Data Architecture, you will design, build, and scale the data platform that powers enterprise-wide analytics, innovation and AI. You will blend technical expertise with strategic thinking to deliver trusted high-quality, and actionable data across the organization.

Requirements

• 8-10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, data engineering, or data platform development
• Proven leadership in data architecture, with experience delivering enterprise-scale, cross-functional solutions
• Advanced conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling skills
• Experience in designing and deploying Lakehouse architecture
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills; ability to influence and inspire diverse stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Architect & Evolve the Data Ecosystem: Define reference architectures, canonical data models, and integration patterns to establish a consistent and agile data foundation
• Build, optimize, and expand a modern data lake that supports diverse business scenarios and drives measurable outcomes
• Evaluate, curate, and integrate modern data stack technologies to speed delivery, enhance capabilities, and maximize business value
• Collaborate with business teams to understand objectives, define data requirements, and deliver actionable insights
• Build Transformational Data Solutions: Design, deliver, and optimize scalable data pipelines, APIs, and real-time streaming frameworks to support analytics and business critical insights
• Embed data quality, lineage, metadata management, and observability into all solutions for trusted and transparent data
• Prepare, structure, and enrich enterprise data to enable AI, ML, and predictive analytics use cases
• Architect ETL/ELT pipelines and reusable ingestion and transformation frameworks that support automation and AI-driven workflows
• Develop analytical frameworks and prototype data models that support complex business decision-making
• Continuous Improvement: Identify and resolve data integrity issues; partner with various teams to drive long term upstream fixes.
• Lead Data Governance, Security & Trust: Partner with security and compliance teams to establish secure, well-managed, and highly accessible data environments
• Implement data security and access controls and governance models

Benefits

• paid vacation time
• paid sick leave
• medical/dental/vision insurance
• life, accident and disability insurance
• tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
• employee assistance program
• other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
• tuition reimbursement
• transit
• the Applause Program
• employee stock purchase plan
• the Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees