
Senior Lead Enterprise Architect
GlobalFoundries
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Richardson • United States
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Salary
💰 $57,800 - $97,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- 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
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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
NASNFSHPCsemiconductor designstorage architecturedata protectiondisaster recoverystorage securityLinuxUNIX
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationtroubleshootinganalyticalmentoringcapacity planningperformance optimizationincident responseroot cause analysiscross-functional project management
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Information SystemsBachelor’s degree in Engineering