Donaldson is committed to solving the world’s most complex filtration challenges. Together, we make cool things. As an established technology and innovation leader, we are continuously evolving to meet the filtration needs of our changing world. Join a culture of collaboration and innovation that matters and a chance to learn, effect change, and make meaningful contributions at work and in communities.
Position Summary
The Senior Director, Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture & End User Services, based in Bloomington, MN, will shape the technology foundation that enables Donaldson’s 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
Bachelor’s 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.
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