Associate Director, Enterprise Integration

About the role

The Associate Director of Enterprise Integration is a strategic and hands-on leader responsible for defining the integration vision, establishing governance, and delivering reliable, scalable, and secure integration capabilities across the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Inform and define the technical and architecture strategy for enterprise integration (roadmaps, tools/technology selection, platforms, patterns, standards).
• Establish design principles and leading practices for APIs, architecture, data movement, orchestration, and security.
• Support standing up new technology and qualifying through proofs of concept, pilots, and vendor evaluations.
• Lead decisions on which bus to get on (e.g., ESB, event bus, streaming backbone) aligned to use cases and scalability goals.
• Create and maintain an Integration Pattern Decision Framework to guide synchronous vs. asynchronous, pub/sub vs. request/response, batch vs. streaming, ETL vs. ELT, and choreography vs. orchestration choices.
• Establish and run governance processes including intake, prioritization & work management; create and maintain Standard Work (SOPs, playbooks, runbooks, checklists) for design, build, test, deploy, and support.
• Maintain an authoritative Integration Catalog of APIs, events, integrations, schemas, SLAs, and ownership.
• Serve as Product Owner for the Integration Platform and shared integration services, defining vision, roadmap, backlog, and success metrics.
• Orchestrate work across application teams, corporate functions (security, compliance, finance), and programs to ensure alignment and remove blockers.
• Provide project management oversight across the integration portfolio: scope, timeline, budget, dependencies, risk management, and status reporting.
• Drive integration quality through design reviews, pattern adherence, testing standards, and observability.
• Identify, prioritize, and remediate integration technical debt (legacy patterns, brittle point-to-point, insufficient observability, poor documentation).
• Implement practices for reusability, versioning, deprecation, and lifecycle management of integrations.
• Own integration financials: annual budgeting, forecasting, vendor/software costs, cloud consumption, and chargeback models.
• Measure and communicate ROI, TCO, and value realization of integration investments.

Requirements

• Proven experience with integration platforms (iPaaS, ESB, API gateway, event streaming), such as IBM MQ, MuleSoft, Boomi, Azure Integration Services, Kafka/Confluent, AWS/GCP integration suites, or similar.
• Strong grasp of integration patterns (EDA, pub/sub, CQRS, SAGA, orchestration/choreography), data movement (ETL/ELT), and API lifecycle management; knowledge of integration platforms such as Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), middleware, and APIs.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF), agile at scale (e.g., SAFe), and ITIL service management practices.
• Solid understanding of security, compliance, privacy, identity, and data governance as they apply to integrations.
• Demonstrated success in establishing governance, standard work, and cross-functional orchestration with measurable outcomes.
• Familiarity of regulatory guidelines, including GxP compliance, Sox, and security.
• Expertise in Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, and reporting tools like Oracle BI Publisher and OTBI.

Qualifications

• Senior Manager: 8+ years in enterprise integration, middleware, or API/platform architecture; 4+ years in leadership roles.
• Associate Director: 10+ years in enterprise integration, middleware, or API/platform architecture; 5+ years in leadership roles.