Associate Director, Data & Application Integration

Location: Remote (VA). U.S. citizenship required.

About the role

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With three market‑leading businesses, world‑class operations and investments in research and development, RTX offers capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. Raytheon brings the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense. Raytheon’s Data, Analytics & AI (DAAI) organization is seeking an Associate Director, Data & Application Integration to serve as the senior technical authority for how applications integrate with enterprise data and AI platforms. This role provides strategic leadership, architectural governance, and cross‑functional alignment to ensure applications interact with, consume, and exchange data through secure, scalable, and governed patterns. As the primary liaison between DT Application teams and the Data, Analytics & AI (DAAI) organization, this leader drives enterprise standards, consistent architectural practices, and sustainable integration architectures. The Associate Director defines integration strategy, shapes multi‑year platform roadmaps, and leads complex cross‑team engineering efforts supporting cloud modernization, platform consolidation, and mission‑critical analytics and AI initiatives. This position requires deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and the ability to influence across multiple organizations to advance Raytheon’s digital and data ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise strategy for application‑to‑data integration and set technical direction.
• Define and govern standards, patterns, and architecture principles for integration across applications and data platforms.
• Drive alignment between DT application engineering, Data Engineering, Analytics, Architecture, Cybersecurity, and Infrastructure teams.
• Establish strategy for APIs, event streams, ETL/ELT pipelines, data replication, and cloud‑native integration services.
• Identify integration risks, redundant interfaces, architectural gaps, and opportunities to increase reuse and standardization.
• Review and approve major integration designs through architecture governance processes.
• Ensure cybersecurity, resiliency, compliance, and performance requirements are incorporated into integration designs.
• Influence multi‑year roadmaps for applications and data platforms to ensure technical alignment.
• Mentor and guide architects, senior engineers, and technical leads in