Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture (US Remote Available)

Join us as we pursue our disruptive new vision to make machine data accessible, usable, and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Splunk, were committed to our work, customers, having fun, and most importantly, to each others success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!

Role:

The Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture, reporting to the Head of IT, is a leadership role that will define the vision and strategy for enterprise architecture across Splunk. This position will lead a small but growing team of architects to set and lay the foundation for enterprise architecture for Splunk IT and our business partners. This role will require deep collaboration with various leaders and senior individuals across the company to build consensus and an in-depth understanding of key business processes and the applications and technologies that support them. This requires the ability to seamlessly blend engagement skills, business understanding, critical thinking, technical mastery, and architectural knowledge to drive to define an IT roadmap that will scale and mature capabilities. The ability to assess organizational strengths and weaknesses and make the choices appropriate to the organization while performing managerial duties is important.

This position requires you to be a self-starter with the ability to take ownership, prioritize, and handle various tasks simultaneously while maintaining a positive demeanor. In addition, strong verbal communication and written documentation skills are a must for this role for promoting ideas throughout the business to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities:

• Define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for overall enterprise architecture to facilitate strategic and long-range planning for a set of broad business objectives

• Communicate and evangelize the architecture vision across the enterprise and help various segments adopt and adapt the proposed solutions

• Build the architecture roadmap with the business strategy in mind to ensure a scalable and optimized application technology portfolio

• Lead and manage a team of accomplished architects to enable success and to remove obstacles that impede their objectives

• Engage and influence all major business partners on their respective initiatives

• Partner with IT PMO and Product Management to align programs to the overall IT strategy and architectural roadmap

• Define and implement architectural principles, methodologies, and benchmarks

• Research, evaluate, and recommend application technologies and help lead tradeoff studies and promote adoption of the right solutions for the enterprise

• Work closely to operationalize the architectures with solution architects and delivery team to profile the implementation

• Lead and guide the enterprise Architecture Review Board to ensure technical solutions meet the expectations of the business while coexisting with existing architectures

• Define inherently secure, resilient, and composable architectures that scale for growth

• Define repeatable artifacts that document the proposed architectures, designs, processes, and tooling

• Help with reviews and audits of existing architectures and implementations and help with refactoring architectures where required.

• Work with security and compliance teams to ensure that methodologies in cybersecurity are applied and conform to company and industry practices

Requirements:

• 15+ years of demonstrated enterprise architecture experience within IT

• 10+ years of management experience and building enterprise architecture teams

• Demonstrated knowledge of business, technology, application, data, and security architectures

• Track record of successfully establishing and implementing enterprise architecture methods and practices in an Agile and DevOps environment

• Demonstrated knowledge of SaaS, infrastructure, and cloud computing architectures

• Demonstrated knowledge of data security and compliance controls

• Track record of successfully articulating and executing on an organization vision and strategy in a way that connects with the corporate strategy and inspires individuals at all levels

• Strong executive presence and communication skills

Preferred Knowledge and Experience:

• Experience of Agile fundamental principles

Education:

• BS or MS in Computer Science/Information Systems/Business or equivalent experience required

We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

For job positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

About Splunk

Splunk was founded to pursue a disruptive new vision: make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. Machine data is one of the fastest growing and most complex areas of big datagenerated by every component of IT infrastructures, applications, mobile phone location data, website clickstreams, social data, sensors, RFID and much more.

Splunk is focused specifically on the challenges and opportunity of taking massive amounts of machine data, and providing powerful insights from that data. IT insights. Security insights. Business insights. Its what we call Operational Intelligence.

Since shipping its software in 2006, Splunk now has over 13,000 customers in more than 110 countries around the world. These organizations are using Splunk to harness the power of their machine data to deepen business and customer understanding, mitigate cybersecurity risk, prevent fraud, improve service performance and reduce costs. Innovation is in our DNA from technology to the way we do business. Splunk is the platform for Operational Intelligence!

Splunk has more than 2,700 global employees, with headquarters in San Francisco, an office in San Jose, CA and regional headquarters in London and Hong Kong.

Weve built a phenomenal foundation for success with a proven leadership team, highly passionate employees and unique patented software. We invite you to help us continue our drive to define a new industry and become part of an innovative, and disruptive software company.

Benefits & Perks: Wow! This is really cool!

SF Only

Medical, full company paid Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts, Commuter Accounts, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), 401(k), 3 weeks of PTO, sick leave, stocked micro kitchens in Splunk offices, catered lunches on Mondays, catered breakfast on Fridays, basketball hoops, ping pong, arcade games, BBQs, soccer, Fun Fridays.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Non SF

Medical, full company paid Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts, Commuter Accounts, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), 401(k), 3 weeks of PTO and sick leave. Our work environments vary by location however we believe in hosting amenities and fun activities to fuel our energy. You may find fully stocked micro kitchens, catered lunches on Mondays and breakfast on Fridays, basketball hoops, ping pong, arcade games, BBQs, soccer and Fun Fridays.

This isnt a job its a life changer are you ready?

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