Senior Lead, Enterprise Architect
About The Position
GlobalFoundries is seeking a Senior Lead, Enterprise Architecture to lead the design, deployment, and operation of large-scale Network Attached Storage (NAS) and high-performance computing (HPC) storage environments supporting semiconductor design and engineering workloads. This role is responsible for architecting resilient, secure, and high-performing storage platforms at global scale, partnering closely with engineering, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams to ensure availability, performance, and long-term scalability. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in enterprise NAS platforms, HPC storage architectures, data migration, disaster recovery, and storage security within complex semiconductor or R&D environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise storage architecture and operations
- Extensive hands-on experience with large-scale NAS platforms such as Isilon, PowerScale, NetApp, or equivalent
- Strong expertise in NFS, SMB, Linux, and UNIX-based environments
- Proven experience supporting HPC or semiconductor design workloads at scale
- Demonstrated success leading large data migrations, platform refreshes, and global infrastructure initiatives
- Strong understanding of storage security, replication, backup alternatives, and disaster recovery strategies
- Ability to lead complex cross-functional projects in a global enterprise environment
- Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting semiconductor EDA or R&D environments
- Familiarity with HPC schedulers, data-intensive workloads, and performance tuning
- Experience with ransomware detection, NFS auditing, and storage security tooling
- Scripting or automation experience (Shell, Perl, or similar)
- Experience operating in highly regulated or high-availability environments
- Prior experience serving as a technical lead or architect within a large enterprise organization
Responsibilities
- Design, architect, and support large-scale NAS and NFS-based storage environments supporting HPC and semiconductor design workloads
- Lead global storage platforms spanning multiple data centers, supporting thousands of engineers and mission-critical design systems
- Own capacity planning, performance optimization, availability, and lifecycle management for enterprise storage infrastructure
- Architect and lead large-scale storage migrations and technology refresh initiatives with zero or minimal downtime
- Define and implement data protection, replication, and disaster recovery strategies for critical engineering data
- Lead storage security initiatives including ransomware protection, protocol auditing, and perimeter hardening
- Partner with network, security, compute, and application teams to ensure end-to-end performance and reliability
- Serve as technical lead for major vendor relationships, including architecture reviews, upgrades, and roadmap planning
- Develop storage standards, operational best practices, and automation strategies to improve efficiency and reduce risk
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to junior engineers and regional support teams
- Support incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives across global environments
- Evaluate emerging storage technologies and recommend solutions aligned with GlobalFoundries’ long-term strategy
- Support chargeback, reporting, and data lifecycle management initiatives
- Contribute to documentation, architecture diagrams, and operational runbooks
- Participate in on-call and escalation support for critical infrastructure services as needed
Benefits
- The exact Salary will be determined based on qualifications, experience and location.
- reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
