Sandisk · 11 hours ago
Director, Data Architecture
Milpitas, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
8+ years expSandisk is a leader in innovative data solutions, striving to meet the evolving needs of businesses and individuals. The Director of Data Architecture will design and scale the data platform to enhance enterprise-wide analytics and support AI initiatives, ensuring high-quality and actionable data across the organization.
Data StorageManufacturingSemiconductor
Responsibilities
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
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
Identify and resolve data integrity issues; partner with various teams to drive long term upstream fixes
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
Qualification
Required
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
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
Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan
Company
Sandisk
SanDisk designs, develops, manufactures, and markets data storage solutions in the United States and internationally.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$713.58M2025-06-06Post Ipo Secondary· $713.58M
2015-10-21Acquired
1995-11-17IPO
Leadership Team
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