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Manager of Enterprise Systems Integration (On-Site)

Ace Hardware Corporation · Oak Brook, IL · 4 wk ago
Project Management$158k–$206k/yrFull-time

About the role

The Manager of Enterprise Systems Integration is responsible for owning the enterprise integration strategy, platforms, and architectural standards that enable secure, resilient, and scalable data and application connectivity across the organization ensuring the operational resiliency and stability of the organization’s enterprise integration platform.

Responsibilities

  • Directly manage and lead a dedicated engineering team plus a variable pool of staff augmentation consultants, overseeing resource allocation, skills development, and large-scale delivery.
  • Maintain accountability for the performance, availability, and operational resiliency of all enterprise-wide data movement and integration points, including 24/7 production coverage.
  • Manage the engineering standards, platform usage models, and implementation approaches for engineering of data flows using Informatica Power Center, IBM Sterling/Broker, IBM APIC, and Azure APIM/ADF.
  • Ensure all solution architectures for data movement align with approved enterprise standards and “enterprise architecture standards”.
  • Lead the progressive migration of data integration patterns from scheduled batch movement to integration, including API-led connectivity, modern, event-driven architectures, and real-time data streaming, while ensuring controlled migration from legacy batch-based patterns with no disruption to business operations.
  • Provide hands-on mentorship and lead by example to develop the technical competencies of the integration engineering staff.
  • Own enterprise API lifecycle management, including design standards, versioning, reuse, deprecation, and external partner exposure, ensuring integrations are secure, discoverable, and reusable across the enterprise.

Requirements

  • Engineering Leadership: 10+ years of experience in systems integration engineering, with 3+ years in a formal people leadership role managing teams of 10+ FTE developers, including experience managing on/offshore staff augmentation consultants.
  • Technical Stack Proficiency: 5+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise integration and data platform tooling, including Informatica (PowerCenter, DEI), IBM middleware (Sterling, Message Broker, APIC), Azure integration services (ADF, APIM), Hadoop, Databricks.
  • Modernization Expertise: 5+ years leading modernization initiatives transitioning enterprise environments from batch-processing to Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), with demonstrated emphasis on operational continuity during migration.
  • Operational Management: 5+ years managing production integration systems at high volume, with a strong understanding of supply chain data requirements in a retail context; proficiency with enterprise ITSM tooling, for incident and change management.
  • Applied AI: Practical understanding of AI/ML as it applies to integration engineering - including AIOps tooling for intelligent monitoring and anomaly detection, integration patterns that support AI/ML data pipelines, and the governed use of AI-assisted development tools (including GitHub Copilot) within an engineering team.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or IS.
  • Excellent communication skills to facilitate technical alignment across IT.

Skills

  • Strategic technology leadership.
  • Strong technical depth.
  • Team leadership.
  • Modernization expertise.
  • Operational management.
  • Applied AI.

Benefits

  • Incentive opportunities.
  • Generous 401(k) retirement savings plan with a fully vested matching contribution the first year in addition to quarterly contributions and annual discretionary contribution (once eligibility requirements have been met).
  • Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision and disability – up to 26 weeks short-term disability and long-term disability) & life insurance benefits for you and your dependents.
  • 21 days of vacation immediately available (prorated in the first year) and up to 6 paid holidays depending on the month of hire.
  • Company Car, phone and fuel card are provided for field-based positions.
  • Your career at Ace is more than just a job. It’s a chance to be part of something meaningful.

Pay

$158,400 - $205,950 per year

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