Director of Enterprise Cloud, Integration & Technical Resiliency

nVent•St Louis, MN

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Director of Enterprise Cloud, Integration & Technical Resiliency provides strategic leadership for nVent’s enterprise cloud and integration platforms and leads technical resiliency and recovery capabilities across the enterprise. The role defines and executes roadmaps for public cloud services, integration platforms, automation, and supporting technologies that enable the company’s Digital strategy. It strengthens disaster recovery, technical recovery, backup, restore, failover, and incident response for business-critical systems through clear ownership, repeatable playbooks, and measurable recovery outcomes. The position modernizes cloud infrastructure and operational capabilities across AWS, Microsoft Azure, SaaS platforms, and hybrid environments, including cloud architecture, governance, cost optimization, automation, monitoring, and platform reliability. It owns integration and automation strategy, including enterprise integration patterns, API management, EDI, workflow automation, and platform connectivity. Working with Digital, Cybersecurity, and business teams, the director ensures solutions incorporate security, compliance, availability, scalability, and operational supportability. The role provides technical leadership for ERP modernization, M&A integration, acquisition onboarding, carveouts, platform migrations, legacy-system modernization, and business transformation. It establishes operational practices for critical platforms, including runbooks, service levels, monitoring, escalation, vendor accountability, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement. The director also partners with Data, AI, Cybersecurity, and business teams to prepare platforms to securely support AI-enabled workflows, analytics, and emerging digital capabilities. The director builds and leads technical teams across cloud engineering, integration, automation, and resiliency, developing leaders and technical talent while promoting accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning. The role communicates strategy, risk, and progress to senior leaders in business terms, including roadmap priorities, investment needs, risk posture, recovery readiness, operational stability, and measurable business outcomes. Travel of 10% may be needed, domestically and internationally.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in IT or a related field.
12 or more years of progressive technology leadership experience across cloud infrastructure, enterprise platforms, integration, automation, infrastructure operations, or application delivery.
7 or more years leading technical teams, including managers, architects, engineers, analysts, or third-party delivery partners in a complex enterprise environment.
Demonstrated experience leading enterprise cloud strategy and operations across AWS, Microsoft Azure, SaaS, and hybrid environments.
Solid experience with disaster recovery, business continuity, technical recovery planning, backup and restore, failover testing, incident response, and platform resiliency.
Experience managing enterprise integration platforms, APIs, EDI, middleware, workflow automation, or related technologies connecting core business systems.
Experience supporting ERP landscapes, manufacturing environments, business-critical applications, and complex global operating models.
Ability to lead technical modernization programs, including legacy-system remediation, platform consolidation, cloud migration, automation, and operational process improvement.
Experience partnering with cybersecurity, risk, compliance, privacy, infrastructure, applications, and business collaborators to ensure solutions meet enterprise standards.
Ability and desire to work cross-functionally and influence partners.
Ability to travel 10% of the time as needed, domestically and internationally.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, or large-scale integration programs.
Experience working in a high-growth company, with a demonstrated growth mindset.
Curiosity, an innovation outlook, and a focus on people development.

Responsibilities

Provide strategic leadership for enterprise cloud and integration platforms and execute roadmaps for cloud services, integration, automation, and supporting technologies.
Lead enterprise technical resiliency and recovery capabilities, including disaster recovery, technical recovery, backup, restore, failover, and incident response.
Modernize cloud infrastructure and operations across AWS, Microsoft Azure, SaaS platforms, and hybrid environments.
Lead cloud architecture, governance, cost optimization, automation, monitoring, and platform reliability practices.
Own enterprise integration and automation strategy, including integration patterns, API management, EDI, workflow automation, and platform connectivity.
Partner with Digital, Cybersecurity, and business teams to incorporate security, compliance, availability, scalability, and operational supportability into solutions.
Provide technical leadership for ERP modernization, acquisition onboarding, carveouts, platform migrations, legacy-system modernization, and integration of business-critical applications.
Establish operational excellence practices for critical technology platforms, including runbooks, service levels, monitoring, escalation processes, vendor accountability, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement.
Partner with Data, AI, Cybersecurity, and business teams to enable secure AI-enabled workflows, analytics, and emerging digital capabilities.
Build and lead technical teams across cloud engineering, integration, automation, and resiliency; develop talent, set expectations, and coach performance.
Communicate strategy, risk, and progress to senior leaders, translating technical topics into business language and measurable outcomes.