Director, Enterprise Integration

Hyundai Capital • Irvine, CA

15h • Hybrid

About The Position

Hyundai Capital America (HCA) helps people move forward. Through Hyundai Motor Finance, Genesis Finance, and Kia Finance, we deliver innovative financing, leasing, and insurance solutions to more than 3 million customers and businesses nationwide. We’re a company driven by growth, innovation, and people. At HCA, you’ll find opportunities to build new skills, expand your career, and make a real impact—while working in a diverse, inclusive, and values‑driven environment. We’re proud to support our communities through volunteerism, philanthropy, and engaged Employee Resource Groups. If you’re looking for a fast‑paced, collaborative workplace where your ideas matter, join us as we lead the future of financing freedom of movement. Apply today. WORK MODEL #LI-OnSite (4 days a week)

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in enterprise integration, software engineering, data engineering, or platform architecture with increasing leadership responsibility.
• 5+ years leading teams delivering integration programs across multiple systems and stakeholders.
• Experience with enterprise integration tooling, including Mulesoft, SaaS integrations, TIBCO, Informatica, or equivalent platforms, data streaming technology, and database/SQL proficiency.
• Experience in financial services / auto finance or other regulated industries.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Technology/Information Management or closely related technical field.
• Ability to understand macro-level requirements and convert them into actionable plans and technically sound products.
• Strong communication and executive presence; able to influence without authority and lead in a matrixed environment.
• Practical, delivery-oriented leader with strong ownership mindset and bias for measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience modernizing and governing enterprise integration practices.
• Experience with cloud integration modernization and data platform ecosystems.
• Strong knowledge of integration patterns: APIs, asynchronous messaging/eventing, ETL/ELT, file transfer, orchestration, and service design.
• Hands-on experience building APIs and microservices and managing integration delivery lifecycle end-to-end.
• Understanding of operational practices: observability, incident/problem management, SLAs/SLOs, resiliency, and performance tuning.
• Strong leadership skills to effectively lead and support both assigned resources and colleagues from other internal departments or external stakeholders.
• Proven record of accomplishment to influence and partner with the business and leaders to successfully drive large-scale organization initiatives.
• Proven ability to work across levels and functions to build relationships with key stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to articulate vision and direction, communicate effectively, manage and measure performance and accountability.
• Ability to translate organizational strategy into operational plans, policies, and procedures.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, counseling, and negotiation skills.
• Comfortable navigating change and ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
• Forward thinking with the ability to work well under pressure and organize/articulate complex information.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the enterprise integration strategy spanning application integration and data integration.
• Establish reference architectures and standard patterns for APIs, messaging/eventing, data streaming, ETL/ELT, file-based exchange, and orchestration.
• Provide architectural governance to ensure integration solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and aligned to business capabilities.
• Own API product lifecycle including design standards, versioning strategy, consumer onboarding, and retirement policies.
• Promote API-as-a-product principles with clear ownership, consumer experience, and measurable adoption outcomes.
• Establish interface contracts, data standards, and versioning strategies to minimize breaking changes and reduce point-to-point integrations.
• Own engineering practices for integration development: design reviews, coding standards, testing/automation, CI/CD alignment, release management, and documentation.
• Drive adoption and effective use of integration tools and platforms (e.g., Mulesoft, TIBCO, Informatica, AWS, SaaS integrations, or equivalents) as well as API, data streaming, and microservices frameworks.
• Establish reusable components, shared services, templates, and patterns to reduce cycle time and improve consistency.
• Own application-level reliability and service health for integration and API services.
• Define consumer-facing SLAs and SLOs for integration services in partnership with IT Infrastructure.
• Partner with Infrastructure teams on incident response, capacity planning, and performance management related to integration platforms.
• Ensure integrated systems meet availability, performance, and recovery expectations, partnering with infrastructure/platform teams where required.
• Establish and enforce integration standards across: Interface contracts and versioning, Logging and auditability, Data handling, retention, and Error handling patterns and exception taxonomies.
• Partner with Security, Risk, Compliance, and Data Governance teams to ensure integrations meet enterprise requirements and regulatory expectations.
• Serve as a strategic partner to application, product, and business leaders to understand integration needs and priorities.
• Provide transparent prioritization, roadmap visibility, and progress reporting to executive stakeholders.
• Resolve conflicts and trade-offs across teams by aligning on measurable outcomes.
• Establish engagement and intake models for application teams consuming integration and API services.
• Lead, mentor, and develop team members by providing direction, performance expectations and feedback, and support to ensure effective collaboration, professional growth, and achievement of organizational and personal goals.
• Define operating model, roles, skills development, and hiring strategy to mature integration capability.

Benefits

• Hybrid work schedule offering 4 on-site days and 1 remote day per week
• Vehicle benefits designed around your role , including monthly allowances and purchase and lease discounts
• Flexible health coverage with medical, dental, and vision plans, including no cost and low-cost options
• Annual employer HSA contribution to help offset healthcare expenses
• 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting, so you can start building your future from day one
• 100% company paid life and disability insurance for added peace of mind
• Wellbeing programs at no cost to you , including gym benefits and health resources
• Generous parental leave to support growing families
• Paid Volunteer Time Off , plus a company donation to a charity of your choice

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director