SAP Enterprise Integration Lead

Our Chicago based client is seeking an experienced SAP Enterprise Integration Lead to join their team on a full time permanent basis. The ideal candidate should have a minimum of 10 years of enterprise integration leadership spanning strategy, architecture, platform ownership, and transformation programs, should also have 5+ years in supervisory or management roles, with a proven track record of leading integration strategy, road maps, governance, standards, and modernization initiatives. Along with strong experience across SAP and non-SAP ecosystems in complex enterprise environments and deep expertise in cloud integration, API-led and event-driven architecture, and enterprise integration patterns and Hands-on knowledge of SAP CPI/Integration Suite, Informatica IICS, SAP PI/PO, API Management, or a similar iPaaS platform. This will be a hybrid role with the exact amount of on-site scheduled days to be confirmed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead integration delivery governance across programs and SI partners, managing risks, dependencies, testing, cutover, and stabilization while ensuring consistent standards and leadership visibility.
• Align integration capabilities and governance with enterprise transformation priorities, partnering with enterprise architecture to meet technology, security, and technical debt goals.
• Govern the health, stability, and evolution of IICS and SAP CPI platforms, partnering with AMS, infrastructure, security, and vendors to ensure reliable delivery and support modernization planning.
• Oversee integration architecture across SAP and non-SAP landscapes, guiding secure, scalable design decisions and reviewing SI/vendor approaches to promote clean core and reduce technical debt.
• Serve as a trusted integration advisor, aligning internal teams, SI partners, and vendors on scope and priorities while holding partners accountable for quality, timelines, and supportability.
• Ability to provide architecture oversight, evaluate solution designs, and drive scalable, supportable integration approaches. 
• Proven success leading delivery across SI partners, vendors, AMS teams, architects, and business stakeholders. 
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder influence, risk management, and decision-making skills. 
• Integrate a backlog of systems into the new S4 environment.