Lead enterprise integration strategy, platform ownership, and delivery governance across SAP and non-SAP landscapes. Provide architecture oversight for APIs, events, batch and file patterns, manage multi-vendor delivery risk, coordinate stakeholders and AMS, and drive platform modernization and clean-core integration outcomes.
Position Title: Enterprise Integration Capability Lead
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Grade: Grade 06
Requisition ID: 42804
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role.
McCain is seeking an experienced Enterprise Application Integration Capability Lead to drive the evolution of enterprise integration across global transformation initiatives, including SAP S/4HANA and broader application ecosystems. This role provides strategic leadership across integration architecture, platform ownership, and delivery governance, operating at the intersection of strategy, architecture, and execution. The position ensures scalable, secure, and business-aligned integration outcomes across both SAP and non-SAP environments while influencing stakeholders and managing delivery risk.
What you'll be doing.
What you'll need to be successful.
About the team.
This role sits within McCain's global technology and transformation organization and partners closely with Enterprise Architecture, platform engineering teams, business stakeholders, AMS providers, and multiple system integrators. The position plays a key leadership role in aligning cross-functional teams and ensuring consistent, high-quality integration delivery across global transformation programs.
About McCain.
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles.
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.
Compensation Package : $102,700.00 - $137,000.00 . USD annually + Bonus eligibility
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Benefits: At McCain, we're on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person's needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with applicable law and can vary by work level, location, and nature of the role. Additional benefit detail available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we're here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work - and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain's Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family: Information Technology
Location(s): US - United States of America : Illinois : Oakbrook Terrace
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Grade: Grade 06
Requisition ID: 42804
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role.
McCain is seeking an experienced Enterprise Application Integration Capability Lead to drive the evolution of enterprise integration across global transformation initiatives, including SAP S/4HANA and broader application ecosystems. This role provides strategic leadership across integration architecture, platform ownership, and delivery governance, operating at the intersection of strategy, architecture, and execution. The position ensures scalable, secure, and business-aligned integration outcomes across both SAP and non-SAP environments while influencing stakeholders and managing delivery risk.
What you'll be doing.
- Drive and evolve McCain's enterprise integration strategy, roadmap, and governance framework
- Own and govern integration platforms (e.g., iPaaS solutions such as IICS, SAP CPI), ensuring stability and scalability
- Provide architecture oversight across API, event-driven, file-based, and batch integration patterns
- Lead delivery governance across programs, ensuring consistency in execution, documentation, and quality standards
- Partner with Enterprise Architecture to align integration solutions with long-term strategy and standards
- Coordinate across stakeholders including business teams, system integrators, vendors, AMS, and internal IT teams
- Manage risks, dependencies, testing readiness, and transition-to-support activities across integration initiatives
- Ensure solutions align with "clean core" principles and actively reduce technical debt
- Act as a trusted advisor to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Drive platform modernization and continuous improvement initiatives
What you'll need to be successful.
- 14+ years of experience in enterprise integration, architecture, or large-scale technology delivery
- Strong expertise in enterprise integration strategy within complex, global environments
- Experience working across SAP and non-SAP ecosystems
- Hands-on knowledge of integration platforms such as SAP Integration Suite (CPI), Informatica IICS, or API management tools
- Experience with API-led and event-driven architecture patterns
- Proven ability to lead or govern multi-vendor and system integrator delivery models
- Strong understanding of integration patterns (APIs, events, batch processing, application-to-application)
- Experience supporting production environments, platform operations, and AMS coordination
- Exceptional stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills
- Ability to balance architectural rigor with practical, business-focused delivery outcomes
About the team.
This role sits within McCain's global technology and transformation organization and partners closely with Enterprise Architecture, platform engineering teams, business stakeholders, AMS providers, and multiple system integrators. The position plays a key leadership role in aligning cross-functional teams and ensuring consistent, high-quality integration delivery across global transformation programs.
About McCain.
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles.
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.
Compensation Package : $102,700.00 - $137,000.00 . USD annually + Bonus eligibility
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Benefits: At McCain, we're on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person's needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with applicable law and can vary by work level, location, and nature of the role. Additional benefit detail available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we're here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work - and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain's Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family: Information Technology
Location(s): US - United States of America : Illinois : Oakbrook Terrace
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.
McCain Foods Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, USA Office
Excellent access to the East-West (I-88) and Tri-State (I-294) Tollway, I-290, I-55, Route 83, and Butterfield Road. There are many restaurants and hotels varying across different levels within a one-mile radius of Oakbrook Terrace Tower.
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