Director of Middleware, Integration & SAP Technical Services

RTX•Austin, TX

8d•Remote

About The Position

The Director of Middleware, Integration & SAP Technical Strategy is a senior technology leader responsible for shaping, governing, and advancing the enterprise wide strategy for Middleware, Integration, and SAP technical platforms in support of RTX’s S/4HANA transformation. This role influences the broader digital landscape across Business Units, ensuring that integration architecture, SAP technical foundations, and enterprise platforms enable a unified, scalable, and future-ready ecosystem. The Director of Middleware, Integration & SAP Technical Services will lead the alignment of, and drive the execution of the Enterprise Services Middleware, Integration and SAP technical strategies in collaboration with the RTX S/4HANA transformation program and RTX Business Units. This role resides in the Enterprise Services Applications Org. and will partner closely to influence the Digital Process and Systems Transformation (PST) organization and is accountable for all aspects of the technical implementation of non-SAP (Boundary systems) Integration deliverables and SAP Basis & Security, and Landscape management for Enterprise Services to deliver scalable, secure, and high performing integration and SAP platform capabilities. The Director sets the vision for Middleware & Integrations strategy and roadmap and how the organization uses integration technologies, SAP BTP services, and core SAP technical capabilities (Basis & Security) to enable seamless business operations. This leader partners with the Digital Process & Systems Transformation (PST) program, Enterprise Services, and Business Units to drive standards, governance, capability roadmaps, and cross-enterprise alignment. The Director should have vast experience in managing Middleware/integrations, SAP BTP-IS services across S4 transformation and SAP technical knowledge. He will ensure that integration and SAP technical platforms support evolving business models, emerging digital capabilities, and long-term modernization goals.

Requirements

University Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related discipline, and minimum 14 years related experience, or equivalent experience.
Strong experience in successfully leading large Middleware/Integration teams, center of excellence, strategy, roadmap for S4 HANA implementation with demonstrated success influencing integration strategy, or SAP platform modernization across complex organizations.
Deep understanding of integration patterns, SAP BTP-IS, API ecosystems, EAI technologies, and modern cloud integration approaches with a strong knowledge of SAP technical foundations (Basis, Security, landscape management) and how they fit into S/4HANA enterprise architecture.
Proven ability to shape strategy, build governance frameworks, and drive enterprise wide adoption of standards and platforms with knowledge and understanding of SAP Technical areas and SAP ECC.
Experience building or leading Center of Excellence, guiding large teams, and developing technical talent with strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to effectively collaborate, negotiate and influence technical and nontechnical staff at all organizational levels, as well as a strong work ethic and proven perseverance in driving issues through to completion to obtain intended results.
Strong presentation skills and ability to influence senior leaders across functions and Business with an executive presence with the ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to senior leaders and business stakeholders.
High level of familiarity of Integration Patterns as well as B2B-EDI, ETL, APIM, SOA, MFT, B2B /EDI, Replication, Operating systems, Web Services, Application Services, Pipeline & Document Management, Runtimes, and Database Interfaces and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) technologies.
U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access certain necessary systems.

Nice To Haves

Experience with large scale ERP transformations such as S/4HANA.
Knowledge of EDI, API management, and multi platform integration ecosystems.
Strong knowledge in IBM Sterling EDI Integrator, or equivalent, and Apigee API Management, or equivalent.
Solid understanding of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) collaboration and related supply chain, logistics and financial transaction sets.
SAFe Agile trained or certified.

Responsibilities

Lead Middleware & Integration scope across Enterprise Services Applications ensuring alignment with S4 HANA program.
Responsible for SAP Basis, SAP Security, SAP landscape management, and integration points with SAP S/4HANA and ECC legacy systems.
Leading team size of 70+ across Middleware/Integrations and SAP Technical and responsible managing operations, financials and workforce strategy across these services areas
Develop, implement and champion the Middleware, Integration strategy and roadmap, patterns, playbooks, and team operating model , SAP Basis & Security roadmaps and engineering standards.
Define and champion the enterprise integration strategy aligned with S/4HANA transformation, business unit priorities, and broader digital modernization objectives.
Shape long term roadmaps for Middleware, Integration, and SAP technical platforms ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and operating model evolution.
Influence and guide Business Units on integration modernization, platform adoption, and architectural alignment with the S/4HANA program.
Establish enterprise wide governance models for integration patterns, SAP BTP-IS usage, API strategy, data movement, security, and platform lifecycle.
Define and champion the enterprise integration strategy aligned with S/4HANA transformation, business-unit priorities, and broader digital modernization objectives.
Serve as an executive-level thought leader providing strategic guidance to senior leaders across technology and business domains.
Build and lead an Middleware and Integration Center of Excellence (CoE) to drive best practices, standards, and shared capabilities across the enterprise.
Partner with SAP, Enterprise Architecture, Security, and PST leaders to ensure cohesive design and decision-making across systems and platforms.
Provide strategic oversight to ensure Middleware, Integration, SAP Basis & Security platforms support enterprise resilience, scalability, and performance.
Influence resource strategy and investment decisions, prioritizing capabilities that drive business agility, operational efficiency, and value realization.
Develop and grow high performing teams, enabling future ready skills in integration engineering, SAP technical disciplines, and platform operations.
Provide technical leadership for Integration Patterns, SAP BTP-IS, EAI technologies, and broader Middleware platforms (EDI, ETL, APIM, SOA, MFT, Replication, Web Services, etc.).
Drive design and delivery across multiple integration workstreams (B2B/EDI, APIs, ETL, MFT, application interfaces) ensuring quality, reusability, security, and scalability.
Serve as the senior point of escalation for critical, complex integration and SAP platform issues.
Continuously enhance operational processes, improving reliability, efficiency, and business value for all supported platforms.
Ability to travel up to 25%.