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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Associate Director, Data & Application Integration - **Company:** RTX - **Location:** Richmond, VA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $157,200.0 - $298,800.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Application Integration Architecture, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, Cyber Security, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Data Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Dataspaces, Design of User Interfaces, Meta-Data Management, Cloud Services, Data Streaming, Systems Integration, Enterprise Data Management, Snowflake, Togaf, Event Driven Architecture, Data Lakes, AI Platforms, Integration Frameworks, Data Management, Database Replication, Cloud Migration, Data Pipelines, Databricks, Microservices - **Published:** September 13, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=0c0ca14b5c78cb97 ## About the Role * Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 10 years experience. * Experience leading large-scale application-data integration initiatives. * Advanced expertise in APIs, event-driven systems, data pipelines, microservices, and integration platforms. * Strong knowledge of Azure, AWS, or GCP cloud services. * Experience driving governance and alignment across multiple technical organizations. * Ability to design secure and compliant integration solutions in regulated environments. * Strong ability to diagnose and resolve complex cross-system data flows and interoperability issues., * Master's degree in technical field. * Experience in aerospace, defense, or other regulated industries. * Familiarity with enterprise data governance and metadata management. * Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. * Experience designing integrations for modern data platforms such as data lakes, lakehouses, and event streaming systems. Examples include Snowflake and Databricks. * Professional certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, TOGAF, or integration platform certifications. * Experience leading enterprise modernization or cloud transformation programs. * Ability to guide senior technical stakeholders through complex design decisions. ## Description Raytheon's Data, Analytics & AI (DAAI) organization is seeking an Associate Director, Data & Application Integration to serve as the senior technical authority for how applications integrate with enterprise data and AI platforms. This role provides strategic leadership, architectural governance, and cross-functional alignment to ensure applications interact with, consume, and exchange data through secure, scalable, and governed patterns. As the primary liaison between DT Application teams and the Data, Analytics & AI (DAAI) organization, this leader drives enterprise standards, consistent architectural practices, and sustainable integration architectures. The Associate Director defines integration strategy, shapes multi-year platform roadmaps, and leads complex cross-team engineering efforts supporting cloud modernization, platform consolidation, and mission-critical analytics and AI initiatives. This position requires deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and the ability to influence across multiple organizations to advance Raytheon's digital and data ecosystem. What You Will Do * Lead enterprise strategy for application-to-data integration and set technical direction. * Define and govern standards, patterns, and architecture principles for integration across applications and data platforms. * Drive alignment between DT application engineering, Data Engineering, Analytics, Architecture, Cybersecurity, and Infrastructure teams. * Establish strategy for APIs, event streams, ETL/ELT pipelines, data replication, and cloud-native integration services. * Identify integration risks, redundant interfaces, architectural gaps, and opportunities to increase reuse and standardization. * Review and approve major integration designs through architecture governance * processes. * Ensure cybersecurity, resiliency, compliance, and performance requirements are incorporated into integration designs. * Influence multi-year roadmaps for applications and data platforms to ensure technical alignment. * Mentor and guide architects, senior engineers, and technical leads in integration architecture and data interface design. * Lead cross-team execution to resolve complex multi-system integration issues. ## Related Videos - [Why make use of an integration platform in today's software developments and infrastructure?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/758-why-make-use-of-an-integration-platform-in-today-s-software-developments-and-infrastructure) - [How Cisco embraced a DevOps culture within its network engineering team](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/99-how-cisco-embraced-a-devops-culture-within-its-network-engineering-team) - [Fully Orchestrating Databricks from Airflow](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/336-fully-orchestrating-databricks-from-airflow) - [Modern Data Architectures need Software Engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1030-modern-data-architectures-need-software-engineering) - [Hacking AI at the Edge of the Indian Ocean](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100177-hacking-ai-at-the-edge-of-the-indian-ocean) - [Cutting LLM Costs Without Cutting Quality: How to Beat Proprietary LLMs with Fine-Tuned Open Source](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100151-cutting-llm-costs-without-cutting-quality-how-to-beat-proprietary-llms-with-fine-tuned-open-source) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production) - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Best US AI Conferences for CTOs in 2026: Build vs. Buy, Vendor Evaluation, and Peer Intelligence](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/736-best-us-ai-conferences-for-ctos-in-2026-build-vs-buy-vendor-evaluation-and-peer-intelligence)