Director of IT Engineering

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •Master's or Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, or a related field
• •10 or more years of experience in application and/or integration engineering
• •5 or more years of management experience
• •Have depth in enterprise integration (Dell Boomi or an equivalent iPaaS) and API management, plus ETL and data-movement pipelines
• •Possess demonstrated enterprise / integration and data architecture experience, with the ability to set standards and make technical decisions across an application estate
• •Have experience adopting and governing AI-assisted development tooling (e.g., LLM coding assistants such as Claude Code or ChatGPT) to improve engineering productivity and quality
• •Be able to proactively identify AI development opportunities across the enterprise – evaluating where AI tooling and agents can be given governed access to business data and systems, and defining the integration, access-control, and data-governance patterns that make those opportunities safe to pursue
• •Have direct technical and business-process experience with ERP platforms and companion products (required)
• •Possess CRM platform experience, and experience integrating ERP, CRM, Financial Systems, and cloud services
• •Have proven experience managing vendor and managed-services partners (e.g., systems integrators or offshore delivery teams), including scope, quality, and cost
• •Have proven aptitude with iterative delivery methodologies such as Agile and Scrum
• •Have a skilled ability to work in a multi-product environment within a matrix organizational design
• •Possess a demonstrated ability to understand business operations and processes and translate them into technical solutions
• •Be familiar with wholesale distribution / B2B customer relationships or have related experience
• •Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and written communication skills
• •Practice strong leadership
• •Have a proven track record of achieving results
• •Be able to drive change, set clear direction, and modernize how the team works, while balancing with analytical rigor and respect for structure needed to earn the team's trust
• •Be a results-oriented, change-driving leader who sets clear direction and modernizes how the team works, balanced with the analytical rigor and respect for structure needed to earn the team's trust
• •Be confident driving change and setting direction, with a bias for action and comfort making decisions amid ambiguity
• •Be technically credible and data-driven - able to engage deeply on architecture and integration and to lead the shift to AI-assisted development
• •Be a strong communicator and influencer who can align cross-functional peers and bring a cautious team along
• •Be able to lead through managers - delegating execution while holding a high bar on standards and quality
• •Be innovation-oriented and resilient in the face of setbacks
• •This is a hybrid role requiring three days in office

Desired Qualifications

• •Our ideal candidate will also: Have depth in enterprise integration (Dell Boomi or an equivalent iPaaS) and API management, plus ETL and data-movement pipelines
• •Possess demonstrated enterprise / integration and data architecture experience, with the ability to set standards and make technical decisions across an application estate
• •Have experience adopting and governing AI-assisted development tooling (e.g., LLM coding assistants such as Claude Code or ChatGPT) to improve engineering productivity and quality
• •Be able to proactively identify AI development opportunities across the enterprise – evaluating where AI tooling and agents can be given governed access to business data and systems, and defining the integration, access-control, and data-governance patterns that make those opportunities safe to pursue
• •Have direct technical and business-process experience with ERP platforms and companion products (required)
• •Possess CRM platform experience, and experience integrating ERP, CRM, Financial Systems, and cloud services
• •Have proven experience managing vendor and managed-services partners (e.g., systems integrators or offshore delivery teams), including scope, quality, and cost
• •Have proven aptitude with iterative delivery methodologies such as Agile and Scrum
• •Have a skilled ability to work in a multi-product environment within a matrix organizational design
• •Possess a demonstrated ability to understand business operations and processes and translate them into technical solutions
• •Be familiar with wholesale distribution / B2B customer relationships or have related experience
• •Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and written communication skills
• •Practice strong leadership
• •Have a proven track record of achieving results
• •Demonstrate results-oriented leadership: be able to drive change, set clear direction, and modernize how the team works, while balancing with analytical rigor and respect for structure needed to earn the team's trust
• •Be a results-oriented, change-driving leader who sets clear direction and modernizes how the team works, balanced with the analytical rigor and respect for structure needed to earn the team's trust
• •Be confident driving change and setting direction, with a bias for action and comfort making decisions amid ambiguity
• •Be technically credible and data-driven - able to engage deeply on architecture and integration and to lead the shift to AI-assisted development
• •Be a strong communicator and influencer who can align cross-functional peers and bring a cautious team along
• •Be able to lead through managers - delegating execution while holding a high bar on standards and quality
• •Be innovation-oriented and resilient in the face of setbacks