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Director, Enterprise Integration, EDI & AI Platforms

Breakthru Beverage · Cicero, IL · $170,000–$185,000 a year · Full time

Posted Sep 18, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about integration standards and governance you put in place. How did you get teams to follow them?

What they are checking: Ability to drive adoption of standards across teams that do not report to them.

Tell me about a major integration failure you dealt with. What did you change afterward?

What they are checking: Learning from incidents and building monitoring and resilience into integration platforms.

How do you build and lead a team that covers EDI specialists, API developers and AI integration engineers?

What they are checking: Leading a mix of legacy and emerging skills and growing people into new technology.

How do you balance being hands-on with setting strategy at the director level?

What they are checking: Whether they can stay credible technically while leading the broader transformation.

What would you do

EDI is still the backbone with many suppliers and retailers. How would you modernize it without breaking trading partner relationships?

What they are checking: Respect for EDI's business importance and a careful plan for migrating partners.

You are in the middle of an SAP S/4HANA migration and many point-to-point integrations exist. How do you sequence the cleanup?

What they are checking: Prioritizing by business risk and transformation timeline instead of trying to fix everything at once.

How would you work with Cybersecurity and Data Governance on an integration that moves sensitive data?

What they are checking: Partnership across the functions the posting names, and building security and governance in early.

How would you measure the success of the integration strategy for business leaders?

What they are checking: Linking platform work to outcomes like partner onboarding time, reliability and cost.

About the work

How would you design an integration platform that connects SAP S/4HANA, Snowflake, AWS and our trading partners?

What they are checking: Architectural thinking across APIs, events and batch, matched to the specific stack the posting names.

When do you choose APIs, event-driven messaging or managed file transfer for an integration?

What they are checking: Judgment about integration patterns based on latency, volume and partner capability rather than habit.

What does integrating AI agents into enterprise systems require that traditional integrations do not?

What they are checking: Clear thinking about security, permissions, observability and guardrails when agents call business systems.

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Are you a current Associate? To be considered, you must submit your application through the internal Career Portal (Jobs Hub). Click here to access. Time Type: Full time Remote Type: Job Family Group: Information Technology Job Description Summary: Breakthru Beverage Group (BBG) is in the midst of a major enterprise transformation to modernize our technology landscape, simplify enterprise integrations, and enable AI-driven capabilities across the business. As part of this transformation, we are building a modern, cloud-native technology ecosystem powered by SAP S/4HANA, Snowflake, AWS, and next-generation AI capabilities. A critical pillar of this strategy is establishing a secure, scalable integration platform that seamlessly connects enterprise applications, data platforms, trading partners, and AI agents. We are seeking a strategic, hands-on technology leader to define and execute BBG's enterprise integration strategy and establish the architecture, standards, and governance that underpin the organization's digital ecosystem. The Director, Enterprise Integration, EDI & AI Agent Platform will lead enterprise integration, APIs, event-driven architecture, EDI, managed file transfer, and AI agent integration. Working closely with Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Data Engineering, Data Governance, and the AI Center of Excellence, this leader will deliver secure, scalable, and resilient integration capabilities that accelerate digital transformation and enable intelligent automation. Job Description: This role follows a flexible hybrid schedule, with two days per week in the office and three days working from home. This role can be performed from any Breakthru Beverage Office Location. Job Responsibilities: • Strategy, Architecture & Governance: • Enterprise Integration Strategy: Execute the enterprise integration strategy and approved roadmap established by Data & AI leadership, Enterprise Architecture, and the VP to support secure, scalable, API-first, and event-driven connectivity across the organization. • Implement Integration Standards and Governance: Maintain and ensure adherence to approved architectural principles, integration patterns, security requirements, development standards, and governance practices across the integration environment. • Enable AI Agent Integration & Governance: Partner with teams to implement approved integration patterns and controls that enable AI agents to securely interact with enterprise systems, APIs, and governed data. • Integration Delivery, Operations & Transformation: • Lead Integration, Platform Delivery & Operations: Direct the design, implementation, operation, and optimization of enterprise integrations, APIs, event-streaming, managed file-transfer, and EDI capabilities connecting SAP, Snowflake, Salesforce, Workday, Microsoft 365, customers, suppliers, and other enterprise platforms. • Deliver Transformation Initiatives: Lead the execution of integration workstreams supporting cloud, ERP, dta, AI, and digital transformation initiatives, ensuring delivery against approved scope, timelines, budgets, and business outcomes. • Drive Operational Excellence: Ensure highly available, secure, and resilient integration services through robust monitoring, SLA management, incident response, automation, security, and continuous improvement. • Leadership, Talent & Partner Management: • Build and Lead a High-Performing Organization: Recruit, develop, and mentor a high-performing team of integration engineers, architects, and EDI specialists while managing strategic technology partners and fostering a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and accountability. • Other duties, as assigned by the jobholder's supervisor, may also be required. Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline. • 10+ years of experience in large scale enterprise integration, middleware, API, platform engineering, or integration architecture initiatives, including at least 5 years in leadership roles. • Deep technical expertise in modern integration architectures, including event-driven design, REST/GraphQL APIs, webhooks, API management, EDI/B2B integration, and cloud-native integration platforms. Hands-on experience with at least one leading iPaaS solution (e.g. MuleSoft) and a major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP). • Proven success designing, implementing, and operating enterprise-scale integration platforms supporting mission-critical business applications. • Deep experience with API management, event-driven architecture, enterprise application integration, EDI/B2B integration, and cloud-native integration technologies. • Experience executing large-scale cloud, ERP, data, or digital transformation initiatives within complex enterprise environments. • Practical experience with AI-enabled development and operations, leveraging AI agents, MCP-style architectures, and LLM-based assistants to accelerate integration delivery, improve operational efficiency, and enhance developer productivity. • A strong mix of strategic thinking and hands-on execution - able to see the big picture, define the long-term architecture, and also dive into code when necessary. • Excellent communication skills with the ability to guide decisions, simplify complexity, and represent Enterprise Integrations at all levels of the organization. Preferred Qualifications: • Experience within large Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), beverage, retail, distribution, logistics, or supply chain organizations. • Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering. Competencies: • Ability to develop complex, multi-project communication plans that understand IT goals, priorities, and resource constraints. • Anticipates significant problems and efficiently resolves most with minimal input; develops creative, feasible solutions to advanced problems, effectively advocates for adoption of proposed solutions and develops process for them. • Be decisive, a strategic planner, manage multiple tasks and deadlines, have excellent problem-solving skills, have strong business and budgeting acumen, and display calmness and composure under stress or uncertainty, inspiring the same in direct reports. This job description is only a summary of the typical functions of this position, not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all possible job responsibilities, tasks and duties. Responsibilities, tasks, and duties of individual jobholders may vary from the above description. Compensation: • $170,000 - $185,000 Salary Range • 25% Annual Bonus Benefits • Medical (HMO & PPO), Dental, Vision (PPO)401(k) matching. • Annual PTO Accrual and holidays • Rollover Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) • Free Life and AD&D Insurance Employee Assistance Program - - Breakthru Beverage Group is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here . If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please call (708) 298-3536 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

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