At ITT, we have a clear purpose as an organization – to provide our customers with cutting-edge solutions to help solve their most critical needs across key global end markets. Our continuous improvement mindset drives our commitment to evolving our capabilities as a multi-industrial technology, manufacturing and engineering leader. With a strong global footprint of more than 100 facilities, we are well positioned to solve critical challenges for our customers around the world. Our locations include manufacturing facilities and global service capabilities in 35 countries. Through these worldwide operations and building on our heritage of innovation, our approximately ~11,000 team members partner with our customers to deliver enduring solutions that make a lasting difference and help the world move forward. ITT is headquartered in Stamford, CT, with sales in approximately 125 countries. The company generated 2024 revenues of $3.6 billion. 

 

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We are looking for a new EAI Lead / Architect that will be responsible for the architecture, design, development, and implementation of the EAI platform for the organization. This role will work with senior leadership to develop, architect, design and implement initiatives that align with the organization's overall data integration goals.  

 

This person will lead all aspects of application integration (people, process, technology) across the enterprise, both those systems and capabilities that are in use today, as well as those that they will design and implement as part of their role to invest in the standardization and capability building of the future. While this person will need to take on the existing landscape of integrations and support them day-to-day, they will be also empowered and charged to define and lead the efforts to eliminate legacy platforms and ways of exchanging data across platforms in a standard way for all integrations.

 

This will be a hands-on leadership role that collaborates with various developers, analysts (including ERP experts, Basis, Security, Networking, Data Center…), project managers, and business partners (both inside and outside to our organization). This person should be able to think strategically and work collaboratively with other departments to achieve the organization's goals, while leading their team to maintain effective and efficient day-to-day operations.

 

This person will be expected to understand the current needs of the organization and assemble an organizational design to build an onshore / offshore team to support current state as well as the future target end-state as platforms and standards are implemented and modernized.  This person will have full responsibility to source, hire, train, develop, coach and manage the workforce that will carry out the organization’s charter to modernize and standardize integration services.

 

The person in this role must have a deep understanding of relevant technological trends and integration best practices. The successful candidate will have had previous experience leading an enterprise integration from an on-prem integration framework to a hybrid framework that includes on-prem and cloud-based architecture.

 

This role is both strategic and tactical, requiring expertise in ERP integration, hybrid cloud/on-prem architectures, and leadership of cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will drive the modernization of integration frameworks, ensuring performance, security, scalability, and compliance with industry best practices.

 

This role will collaborate with senior leadership, IT teams, and business stakeholders to architect solutions that support digital transformation initiatives, enabling seamless connectivity between SAP, cloud applications, and other enterprise platforms. 

 

For a person to be successful in this role, they will need to be highly driven (“high motor”), able to balance many active priorities, detail oriented, planful, comfortable in searching out and addressing ambiguity, able to consistently drive results to achieve intended business outcomes, persists with a naturally curious and highly accountable mindset, and approaches situations in a thoughtful and process-oriented manner.  Furthermore, a successful person in this role will be able to identify and exploit opportunities that enable continuous business process improvement, leveraging information technology to automate and streamline a wide array of business processes.

• Responsible for the design and implementation of an EAI solution architecture and technology roadmap based on the needs and expectations of the business. Creation of scalable integration architectures that meet business requirements while ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Lead the development and deployment of integration processes and interfaces, leveraging the EAI platform.
• Implement complex integration workflows, APIs/WebServices, and data transformation mappings using connectors, process libraries, and scripting.
• Ensure integration architectures align with ITT’s overall IT strategy, compliance requirements (SOX, GDPR), and security best practices. 
• Develop and implement strategies that enable best in class service delivery, cost control & new capabilities
• Manage daily operations and service delivery for all integration activities globally
• Establish global standards for all in scope technologies and related services
• Lead the creation of repeatable, closed loop processes that govern how services are delivered & maintained.
• Ensure service delivery processes and all technology configurations support strict cyber security best practices
• Work with the business to understand the needs and establish IT strategies that enable business growth and improve business process efficiency and sustainability.
• Develop governance models for API security, authentication, authorization, and access control. 
• Stay up to date with emerging integration trends (API-first strategies, event-driven architectures, AI-driven integrations) and evaluate their impact on ITT’s IT ecosystem. 
• Lead and manage a team of developers and analysts
• Lead and mentor developers, providing guidance on best practices in integrations and development.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including application developers, business analysts (including ERP experts, Basis, Security, Networking, Data Center…), and project managers, to ensure alignment and adherence to architectural standards.
• Ensuring that EAI architectures, including EDI technology, are aligned with the organization's overall solution goals and objectives.
• Developing and maintaining architecture standards, and guidelines to ensure that the organization's technology is secure and compliant with industry standards.
• Identifying areas for capability improvement and implementing strategy, roadmap to address them.
• Staying up to date with emerging technology trends and developments and evaluating their potential impact on the organization.
• Communicating technology target state, roadmap and development progress to senior leadership and other stakeholders.
• Improve the data quality in the various communication/integration obtaining a more consistent and unified data and integration approach
• Create a centralized repository of enterprise data, removing data silos in order to create scalable and secure solutions.
• Develop documentation following the best practices and governance for data integration

• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Attention to detail
• High motivation and engagement (an initiative-taking approach to connect the dots and put the right persons in communication in the right moment is necessary for this role)
• Experience leading an enterprise integration from an on-prem integration framework to a hybrid framework that includes on-prem and cloud-based architectures.
• MS in computer science with 5 years EAI architecture experience or BS and 10 years of EAI architecture experience.
• Strong knowledge of architecture governance concepts, application design patterns, and best practices.
• This position requires the individual to perform as an architect lead and have experience with setting up and transforming an integration strategy for a large organization in parallel with and hands-on experience in hybrid cloud integration models (Azure) and scenarios (cloud-to-cloud, cloud-to-on-premises)
• Experience developing and implementing architecture governance, guidelines, procedures, and standards.
• Familiar with multiple EAI implementation models, including Point-to-Point, Hub and Spoke, and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), APIs, Middleware, Microservice, etc., is required.
• Experience with SAP XI/PI/PO and SAP BTP / Integration Suite in a global capacity, is highly desirable
• Proficiency in integrating applications across various platforms (e.g., ERP, CRM, databases, cloud solutions).
• Understanding of EDI concepts, with experience working with EDI preferred
• Strong understanding of REST, SOAP, XML, JSON, and other integration protocols.
• Knowledge of database technologies (SQL, NoSQL) and familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, Azure).
• Proven change management skills to motivate and persuade team members, peers, and stakeholders to embrace new ways of working and implementing a strong EAI culture..
• Excellent communication, diplomacy, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to solve complex integration problems.
• Ability to work effectively with business and IT cross-functional teams.
• Experience leading a team of architects, technology owners, and technology subject matter experts.
• The candidate will provide leadership to a small but effective integrations team.
• The candidate should have a clear and consolidated experience in Data governance, in Data Security and the main related regulations (like GDPR, but not only)
• The candidate should have a solid experience on how to operate new integrations and to maintain and monitor integration already in place (from the requirement definition to the design phase, test and go live, but later also with the regular maintenance and regular operation support and monitoring)

Additional Attributes:

• Service Leader: an authentic, humble “people first” leader with a demonstrated track record of investing in their team and building an inclusive, meritocracy-based work culture
• Strong business acumen; shows clarity of thought, vision and drives execution
• Entrepreneurial with an unrelenting focus on creating a premier customer experience
• Analytical; able to see the forest for the trees and assess the real picture among a huge amount of data; must be able to coach and develop the team to see what’s going on in the business
• Builds an environment that encourages teamwork, collaboration, learning and creativity
• Thinks strategically and drives execution of relevant, concrete actions
• Identifies patterns, trends and anomalies to identify and articulate actionable insights.
• Challenges leaders to respond with agility and to rapidly adapt with creative, actionable and measurable plans in the face of evolving internal and external conditions
• Comfortable with hands-on approach to addressing complex problems to gain a grounded and granular understanding, make informed decisions and take appropriate actions
• Passion for renewal and continuous improvement to drive performance and innovation
• Able to lead and drive change (challenge status quo, flawless execution, influencing skills)
• Inspiring communicator
• Must possess excellent research and problem-solving skills.
• Fully developed analytical skills, including excellent modeling skills are required with a keen attention to details.
• Ability to work independently to complete time sensitive projects with internal and external deadlines.
• Experience in and commitment to protecting sensitive and confidential information.
• Must be self-directed, highly motivated, ability to multi-task, possess excellent judgment and discretion.
• Must communicate clearly and concisely; possess maturity in representing company while working with third parties.
• Continually seek ways to improve existing systems, policies, and procedures.
• Can partner and work effectively with multiple team members.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills especially Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Capability to work in a dynamic environment with ambiguity and flexibility and open mind to adapt to new situations and priority changes

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We aim to pay our ‘ITT’ers’ fairly and competitively in the locations that they live and work. Pay-for-performance is a principle that we believe in, and employees are rewarded based not only on ‘what’ they accomplish, but also on ‘how’ they reflect ITT’s values. ITT offers a competitive salary and robust total rewards package, such as health insurance, 401(k), short and long-term disability, paid time off, growth and developmental opportunities, and other incentive compensation programs. Specific benefits are dependent upon whether or not the position is part of a collective-bargaining agreement. The salary offered to a candidate is based several factors such as candidate experience and qualifications, location, as well as market and business considerations.

$125,300 to $187,900