Senior Director, Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture & End User Services

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Position Summary

The Senior Director Infrastructure Enterprise Architecture & End User Services based in Bloomington MN will shape the technology foundation that enables Donaldsons global business manufacturing operations employees and future growth. This leader will bring together global infrastructure cloud and platform services enterprise architecture and digital workplace capabilities to create a secure resilient scalable and high-performing technology environment.

This is a transformation mandate not solely an operations role. The Senior Director will establish a practical enterprise architecture capability modernize infrastructure and employee technology advance automation and platform engineering and translate business strategy into executable technology roadmaps that improve agility reliability experience and cost performance. Qualified candidates must be able to work a hybrid schedule at our Bloomington MN office.

Role Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a global infrastructure enterprise architecture and end user services strategy aligned with business priorities manufacturing needs cybersecurity requirements and the enterprise technology roadmap.

• Lead reliable secure and cost-effective delivery of global cloud network data center compute storage collaboration endpoint service desk and workplace technology services.

• Build and mature a pragmatic enterprise architecture function that engages early in business and technology planning defines scalable target-state architectures and standards and accelerates sound investment decisions without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.

• Modernize the technology foundation through cloud and hybrid platforms automation infrastructure as code platform engineering observability AIOps container technologies and standardized service patterns.

• Create an exceptional digital employee experience by improving service quality device and collaboration capabilities self-service knowledge management experience measurement and AI-enabled support.

• Partner with cybersecurity applications data digital manufacturing and business leaders to embed resilience Zero Trust secure-by-design interoperability and lifecycle management into solutions from the start.

• Establish clear roadmaps for technical debt reduction network and workplace modernization cloud adoption SaaS optimization resilience and simplification across a complex global environment.

• Own service performance financial management capacity continuity disaster recovery vendor strategy sourcing contracts and measurable outcomes across the portfolio.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and develop practical adoption paths for enterprise AI automation edge and industrial computing modern integration and new digital business capabilities.

• Build develop and inspire a high-performing global organization; strengthen leadership depth product and service ownership engineering discipline accountability and a culture of continuous improvement.

Travel

Up to 25%

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science information technology engineering business or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

• 10 years of progressive information technology experience including 7 years leading managers and multidisciplinary enterprise technology teams.

• Demonstrated experience developing and executing modernization strategies and multi-year roadmaps across global infrastructure cloud architecture or end user services.

• Experience leading enterprise technology services in a complex distributed environment with accountability for operational performance financial management vendors and major transformation programs.

• Experience establishing architecture governance and translating business capabilities and strategy into practical technology standards investment decisions and delivery plans.

Preferred Qualifications

• Technology leadership experience within global manufacturing industrial technology critical infrastructure or a Fortune 1000 enterprise.
• Deep knowledge of public cloud and hybrid platforms networking identity collaboration endpoint management modern data centers resilience and digital workplace services.
• Experience with platform engineering Kubernetes or container platforms infrastructure as code DevOps practices APIs automation observability and AIOps.
• Proven success building an outcome-oriented enterprise architecture practice spanning business solution data application integration security and technology architecture.
• Experience applying Zero Trust secure-by-design segmentation disaster recovery business continuity and operational resilience principles across enterprise and manufacturing environments.
• Working knowledge of Technology Business Management SaaS optimization product operating models service management and experience-level agreements.
• Experience enabling AI advanced analytics automation smart manufacturing edge computing or other modern digital capabilities through scalable foundational platforms.
• Strong commercial skills across strategic sourcing managed services partner ecosystems contract negotiation and value realization.
• Demonstrated ability to explain complex technology choices in business language influence senior executives and align diverse stakeholders around enterprise standards and roadmaps.
• Track record of building exceptional teams developing senior leaders improving succession depth and delivering measurable transformation outcomes with urgency and accountability.

Annual Salary Range: $217920-$326880. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors including but not limited to applicable work experience training education performance.

This position is eligible forannualincentive plan based on performance and company growth.

Immigration Sponsorship Not Available:

• Applicants for this position must be currently and legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship (e.g. H-1B J-1 F-1 CPT OPT etc.).
• Donaldson will not offer immigration sponsorship or assume sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.
• International relocation or remote work arrangements outside of the U.S. will not be considered.

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