Associate Director, Data & Application Integration

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Arizona, +3 more states.

📋 Description

• Spearhead the enterprise strategy for application-to-data integration and establish the technical roadmap.

• Define and oversee standards, frameworks, and architectural principles for integration across various applications and data platforms.

• Facilitate alignment among DT application engineering, Data Engineering, Analytics, Architecture, Cybersecurity, and Infrastructure teams.

• Develop a 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 enhance reuse and standardization.

• Review and endorse significant integration designs through architecture governance processes.

• Ensure that cybersecurity, resiliency, compliance, and performance standards are integrated into the design of integrations.

• Influence multi-year roadmaps for applications and data platforms to maintain technical consistency.

• Mentor and guide architects, senior engineers, and technical leads in integration architecture and data interface design.

• Lead cross-team initiatives to address complex integration challenges across multiple systems.

• Act as the senior technical authority for application integration with enterprise data and AI platforms.

• Serve as the primary point of contact between DT Application teams and the Data, Analytics & AI organization.

• Oversee intricate cross-team engineering projects that support cloud modernization, platform consolidation, and critical analytics and AI endeavors.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience with a minimum of 12 years of relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field with at least 10 years of experience.

• Proven experience leading large-scale application-data integration efforts.

• Advanced proficiency in APIs, event-driven architectures, data pipelines, microservices, and integration platforms.

• Strong understanding of cloud services such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.

• Experience in governing and aligning multiple technical organizations.

• Capability to design secure and compliant integration solutions within regulated environments.

• Exceptional skills in diagnosing and resolving intricate cross-system data flows and interoperability challenges.

• A Master’s degree in a technical discipline is preferred.

• Experience in aerospace, defense, or other regulated sectors is preferred.

• Familiarity with enterprise data governance and metadata management is preferred.

• Experience designing integrations for data lakes, lakehouses, and event streaming systems, including platforms like Snowflake and Databricks.

• Professional certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, TOGAF, or integration platform certifications are preferred.

• Experience leading enterprise modernization or cloud transformation initiatives is preferred.

• U.S. citizenship is required; only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Life insurance

• Short-term disability

• Long-term disability

• 401(k) match

• Flexible spending accounts

• Flexible work schedules

• Employee assistance program

• Employee Scholar Program

• Parental leave

• Paid time off

• Holidays

• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be available