Principal Storage Architect

Our GTI (Global Technology and Infrastructure) is the backbone of innovation at Siemens Digital Industries Software, providing mission-critical infrastructure that enables thousands of engineers globally to design the future. Working within our Architecture and Standards group, you’ll work with our operations team managing multiple global, major data centers and remote sites worldwide, including 65PB of storage, networks, private cloud, virtualization and facilities. Together, we support the world's most demanding engineering workloads- from CAD/CAM and simulation to HPC and digital twin development.

This role sets global storage direction, governs architecture standards, and drives execution through influence rather than direct ownership of day-to-day operations. As our Principal Storage Architect, you'll drive transformation of 65PB of enterprise storage across multiple global data centers and sites. Working closely with our software development organizations and our storage operations, you'll set the strategy for our storage ecosystem and shape how Siemens DISW Engineers access, protect, and leverage data on a global scale. You'll solve complex problems few storage professionals encounter: multi-region compliance and data sovereignty, parallel file system modernization, public/hybrid cloud integration, and evolving a management plane that treats our global infrastructure as one cohesive ecosystem. Up to 15-25% travel may be required.

In this role, you will have:

• Global Impact - Enable thousands of engineers worldwide to innovate and create products shaping industries
• Technical Challenge - Solve storage problems at scale and complexity few organizations match
• Strategic Direction - Shape multi-year storage technology operations strategy and investment decisions
• Collaborative Culture - Work with world-class engineers valuing collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning
• Flexibility - Open to global candidates; US-based preferred for senior leadership coordination
  
  

Key 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
  
  

Required Qualifications:

• 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 Qualifications

• 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
  
  

What Success Looks Like:

• Recognition as industry expert and trusted partner by peers, SW Development Teams, and Leadership
• Defined and executed a 3–5 year global storage strategy
• Reduced $/TB or operational toil via consolidation and automation
• Standardized platforms and management planes globally
  
  

Why Us?

Working at Siemens Software means flexibility - Choosing between working at home and the office at other times is the norm here. We offer great benefits and rewards, as you'd expect from a world leader in industrial software.

A collection of over 377,000 minds building the future one day at a time in over 200 countries. We're dedicated to equality, and we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. All employment decisions at Siemens are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Bring your curiosity and creativity and help us shape tomorrow!

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