Director of IT Engineering

Soni; Whitemarsh Township (Montgomery County); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Soni seeks a Director of IT Engineering to lead a hybrid IT organization in a role three days per week in the office. You will drive enterprise integration, architecture strategy, and AI-assisted development across multi-platform environments.

You will manage through managers, oversee integration architecture, and govern outsourced initiatives, delivering scalable capabilities aligned with the technology transformation roadmap.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Technology, Business, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in application engineering, integration engineering, software engineering, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of management and leadership experience.
• Strong expertise in enterprise integration, iPaaS platforms, API management, ETL, and data-movement pipelines.
• Experience with enterprise/integration architecture and data architecture, including standards and decisions across complex environments.
• Experience adopting and governing AI-assisted software development tools to improve productivity, quality, and delivery.
• Ability to identify opportunities for AI tools/agents across the enterprise with appropriate security and governance.
• Experience with ERP and CRM platforms and integrating with other enterprise systems.
• Proven experience managing technology vendors, systems integrators, offshore teams, and managed-services partners.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum or other iterative delivery methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead, hire, mentor, and develop engineering leaders and engineers.
• Establish performance expectations and accountability across the engineering organization.
• Provide leadership for enterprise integration platforms, API management, cloud integration architecture, ETL/data pipelines, and CRM technologies.
• Own enterprise and integration architecture and governance.
• Drive responsible adoption of AI-assisted software development with standards and training.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI tools across development and operations with proper data access controls.
• Govern outsourced development and managed-services relationships for scope, quality, cost, and risk.
• Manage full lifecycle of engineering initiatives from requirements to deployment and support.
• Promote cross-training and knowledge sharing to reduce single points of failure.

Skills

Enterprise integration

API management

ETL/data pipelines

AI-assisted development

Management & leadership

Agile/Scrum

Architecture strategy

CRM platforms

ERP platforms

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in IT/CS/related field

Tools

ERP platforms

CRM platforms

IA or iPaaS tools

Job description

Our client, a large privately held organization in the distribution and business services sector, is seeking a Director of IT Engineering to join its technology organization. This is a hybrid role requiring three days per week in the office.

The Technology team is focused on modernizing core business applications, enterprise integrations, and data capabilities through a multi-year technology transformation roadmap. The Director of IT Engineering will lead the engineering function, with a focus on enterprise integration, architecture strategy, engineering modernization, and the responsible adoption of AI-assisted development.

This leader will manage through managers, oversee enterprise and integration architecture, and govern outsourced development and managed-services partnerships. The role will have ownership across integration platforms, API management, cloud integration architecture, ETL/data pipelines, and CRM technologies while driving engineering productivity, quality, reliability, and operational resilience.

The Director will work closely with IT leadership, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable technology capabilities aligned with the organization's strategic roadmap.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Technology, Business, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in application engineering, integration engineering, software engineering, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of management and leadership experience.
• Strong expertise in enterprise integration, iPaaS platforms, API management, ETL, and data-movement pipelines.
• Demonstrated experience with enterprise/integration architecture and data architecture, including establishing technical standards and making architecture decisions across complex application environments.
• Experience adopting and governing AI-assisted software development tools to improve engineering productivity, quality, and delivery.
• Ability to identify opportunities for AI-assisted development and AI agents across the enterprise and establish appropriate security, access-control, integration, and data-governance practices.
• Direct technical and business-process experience with ERP platforms and related business applications.
• Experience with CRM platforms and integrating ERP, CRM, financial systems, cloud services, and other enterprise applications.
• Proven experience managing technology vendors, systems integrators, offshore teams, and managed-services partners, including responsibility for scope, quality, performance, and cost.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum or other iterative delivery methodologies.
• Ability to operate effectively in a multi-product, matrixed organizational environment.
• Strong understanding of business operations and the ability to translate business requirements and processes into scalable technical solutions.
• Experience supporting wholesale distribution, B2B, retail, manufacturing, or another complex commercial environment preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and lead organizational change.
• Results-oriented leadership style with the ability to set clear direction, modernize team practices, and balance innovation with appropriate structure and governance.
• Comfortable making decisions in ambiguous environments with a bias toward action and continuous improvement.
• Technically credible and data-driven, with the ability to engage deeply in architecture, integration, and modern software-development practices.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and influencing skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through managers, delegate effectively, and maintain high standards for technical quality and delivery.
• Innovative, adaptable, and resilient when navigating organizational and technical challenges.

Responsibilities

• Lead, hire, mentor, and develop engineering leaders, architects, engineers, and developers while building a strong leadership and technical talent pipeline.
• Establish performance expectations, goals, development plans, and accountability across the engineering organization.
• Provide leadership and oversight for enterprise integration platforms, API management, cloud integration architecture, ETL/data pipelines, and CRM technologies.
• Own enterprise and integration architecture, including integration patterns, data-architecture standards, technical governance, and long-term architecture roadmaps.
• Drive the responsible adoption of AI-assisted software development, establishing standards, governance, training, security controls, and quality practices for AI-enabled engineering.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI tools and agents across development and technology operations while ensuring appropriate access to enterprise data and systems.
• Govern outsourced development and managed-services relationships, including scope, quality, cost, delivery performance, and risk management.
• Manage the full lifecycle of engineering initiatives, from business requirements and process analysis through planning, development, testing, implementation, and ongoing support.
• Strengthen organizational resilience by reducing single points of dependency through cross-training, documentation, knowledge sharing, and succession planning.
• Partner with Data & Analytics, IT Operations, Business Applications, ERP, Finance, and other technology teams to coordinate platforms, dependencies, and delivery.
• Own engineering-related talent, budget, resource allocation, and vendor strategy.
• Provide engineering and architecture input into the broader technology roadmap, standards, governance framework, and performance metrics.
• Build strong partnerships with business and technology stakeholders to ensure alignment across enterprise technology initiatives.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments of application architecture, legacy technologies, integration patterns, and active technology initiatives, providing recommendations for modernization and improvement.
• Establish and standardize development practices across technology stacks, including CI/CD, release management, quality assurance, testing, and deployment processes.
• Establish and monitor KPIs related to system reliability, engineering productivity, delivery speed, quality, security, and operational performance.
• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings with engineering leaders, technical leads, and key stakeholders to identify development opportunities, address challenges, and continuously improve team effectiveness.