Siemens Digital Industries Software · 7 hours ago
Principal Storage Architect
Wilsonville, OR
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$130K/yr - $233K/yr
10+ years expSiemens Digital Industries Software is at the forefront of innovation, providing essential infrastructure for engineers worldwide. The Principal Storage Architect will set global storage direction, govern architecture standards, and drive execution to transform enterprise storage across multiple data centers, ensuring compliance and optimizing data access and protection.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Drive Strategic Storage Modernization and champion adoption of next-generation storage technologies
Vendor and Market - Maintain awareness of storage market landscape; assess vendors and provide strategic recommendations
Define the management plane: Architect and implement centralized tooling, monitoring, and orchestration that provides global visibility and control across all storage platforms
Consult and advise on public cloud storage use and efficiency
Design and implement scalable, cost-optimized hybrid cloud storage strategies and architectures
Define self-service capabilities and consumption-based storage-as-a-service models
Lead Cross-Functional Coordination & Influence
Actively manage storage service vendor relationships; influencing vendor roadmaps, negotiating technical requirements, and ensuring optimal support
Serve as primary storage liaison to global SW engineering teams, translating requirements into infrastructure capabilities
Ensure Global Compliance & Data Resilience as part of the storage service roadmap
Architect storage backup strategies complying with regional data residency, GDPR, and regulatory frameworks
Define geo-replication, multi-site redundancy, and DR capabilities, ensuring business continuity
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience)
10+ years enterprise storage architecture and operations with demonstrated leadership in complex, global environments
Deep Storage Expertise across a broad variety of platforms
Enterprise NAS platforms (e.g., NetApp ONTAP, Isilon, etc.)
All-flash and scale-out object/file platforms (e.g., Pure FlashBlade, equivalent)
Ability to develop and execute multi-year technology roadmaps and modernization initiatives
Global scale operations: Proven track record managing and operationalizing storage across multiple global data centers at petabyte scale
Public, private, and hybrid cloud experience: Demonstrated success with storage solutions spanning on-premises and off
Strong track record building centralized management, monitoring, orchestration for geographically distributed infrastructure
Proven success in matrix leadership—influencing and coordinating without direct authority
Exceptional communication skills, presenting complex concepts to audiences from engineers to C-level executives
Strong vendor management: relationship building, technical negotiations, market landscape analysis
Collaborative mindset, comfortable with ambiguity and dynamic environments, bias for action
Strong working knowledge of storage networking (NFS, SMB, iSCSI, FC, NVMe-oF) and network architecture tradeoffs
Understanding of automation/IaC tools (Ansible, Terraform), scripting (PowerShell, Python), REST APIs
Expert-level storage performance analysis, tuning, and capacity planning
Experience with application and storage monitoring and observability platforms
Familiarity with Linux, Windows, and virtualized environments
Preferred
Master's degree
Netapp mastery: Hands-on with ONTAP(cDOT), advanced features, performance tuning, OnComman/Active IQ,…
Pure Storage expertise: In-depth experience with FlashArray/FlashBlade, management, replication, optimization
Parallel file system (PFS) experience with high-performance systems
Experience leading storage initiatives involving GDPR, data residency, or multi-region regulatory compliance
Track record building self-service storage platforms, consumption-based models, or internal cloud services
Certifications: NetApp NCIE, Pure Certified Architect, ITIL, AWS/Azure storage
Deep experience with SnapMirror/SnapVault, Pure ActiveCluster/ActiveDR, or equivalent technologies
Benefits
Flexibility
Great benefits and rewards
Company
Siemens Digital Industries Software
We help organizations of all sizes digitally transform using software, hardware and services from the Siemens Xcelerator business platform.
5001-10000 employees
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Late StageLeadership Team
Aleksandar Bradic
Chief Technology Officer, Supplyframe
Kirk Gutmann
Senior VP Technology & Innovation — CTO
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