IT Sr Manager, Applications Engineering - Legacy Systems

**Job Description:** The IT Integrations Manager is responsible for leading the design, delivery, and modernization of enterprise integrations across both legacy (mainframe) systems and modern application platforms. This role will initially oversee a team supporting mainframe-based integrations, ensuring stability, reliability, and continuity of business-critical data flows. In parallel, the role will transition into leading a modern enterprise integrations and .NET development team, driving API-based integrations, data platform connectivity, and reporting/analytics enablement (e.g., Power BI). This leader will play a key role in bridging legacy and future-state architectures, enabling the organization’s transition toward a scalable, cloud-enabled integration and data ecosystem. **Key Responsibilities****1. Integration Strategy & Architecture** - Define and execute the enterprise integration strategy spanning legacy and modern platforms - Establish integration patterns (APIs, messaging, ETL, event-driven) and standards - Partner with Data & Analytics leadership to align integrations with data lake and reporting initiatives **2. Legacy System Leadership (Interim)** - Lead the team supporting **mainframe/legacy integrations** and interfaces - Ensure stability, performance, and reliability of existing integrations - Document and rationalize current-state integrations and dependencies - Develop a roadmap for **coexistence, simplification, and eventual decommissioning** of legacy systems **3. Modern Integration & .NET Leadership (Future State)** - Transition into leadership of a **.NET-based integrations and development team** - Oversee development of APIs, services, and integration components (.NET, C#, Web APIs) - Drive modernization toward reusable, scalable integration services - Align development efforts with enterprise architecture and cloud platform (Azure preferred) **4. Data Platform & Reporting Integration** - Enable integration with enterprise data platforms (data lake, Azure SQL, etc.) - Support ingestion pipelines for analytics and reporting use cases - Collaborate with Power BI and analytics teams to deliver reliable, governed data flows - Improve data quality, consistency, and governance across systems **5. Integration Delivery & Platform Management** - Oversee APIs, middleware, ETL pipelines, and system interfaces - Manage integration lifecycle (design, build, deploy, monitor, optimize) - Ensure performance, scalability, and observability of integrations - Support SQL Server and data integration performance tuning **6. Team Leadership & Transition Management** Lead a hybrid team of: - Legacy/mainframe integration resources (short-term) - Modern integration engineers and .NET developers (long-term) - Drive transition planning from legacy skillsets to modern integration capabilities - Manage Agile delivery, backlog prioritization, and capacity planning **7. Governance, Security & Compliance** - Establish integration governance, standards, and documentation practices - Ensure secure data movement and adherence to enterprise policies - Implement monitoring, logging, and auditing for integrations **8. Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Collaboration** Partner with: - Enterprise Applications - Data & Analytics teams - Business stakeholders - External vendors/partners - Act as the primary IT leader for integration-related initiatives and decisions **Required Qualifications** - 10+ years in IT with strong experience in **systems integration and application development** - Experience supporting **legacy/mainframe systems and integrations** - Experience with modern integration technologies (APIs, ETL, middleware) - Strong background in **.NET development (C#, ASP.NET, Web APIs)** - Strong experience with SQL Server, ETL and data integration concepts - Experience leading technical teams across both legacy and modern environments - Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure preferred) **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience integra…