About the Role

• Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of enterprise-wide automation and AI initiatives.
• Combine technical depth in integration and AI engineering with strategic leadership responsibilities.
• Drive scalable automations, AI-assisted workflows, and data pipelines across the enterprise.
• Guide architecture and design of automation frameworks primarily with Workato and other frameworks including Snowflake, Salesforce, NetSuite, and Slack.
• Build and mentor a high-performing team.
• Partner with executives and stakeholders to align automation and AI programs with business priorities.

Your Area of Focus

• Define and execute automation and AI strategy across the enterprise.
• Oversee design of resilient, observable automation frameworks and AI-enabled workflows.
• Provide hands-on guidance in Workato and AI model integration.
• Direct system-to-system integrations with focus on data quality, reusability, and automation of workflows.
• Operationalize AI use cases such as knowledge retrieval, intelligent triage, automated approvals, autonomous and user prompted workflows.
• Establish enterprise standards for automation design, testing, monitoring, and documentation.
• Ensure adherence to data governance, security, and compliance practices.
• Partner with executives and business leaders to influence adoption of AI-driven capabilities.
• Hire, mentor, and retain a strong team of automation engineers, analysts, and architects.
• Promote a culture of innovation, excellence, and accountability.

Your Professional Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in automation, integration, or data engineering, including 3+ years in a leadership role.
• Proven expertise with Workato required.
• Expertise with Snowflake, Salesforce, and NetSuite, with strong architectural and automation design skills preferred.
• Hands-on technical background in ETL/ELT, data modeling, SQL/T-SQL, and programming (Python, Ruby, or similar).
• Experience operationalizing AI/ML models and workflows for enterprise use cases.
• Strong leadership skills including hiring, motivating, and retaining technical talent.
• Skilled in stakeholder engagement and executive influence to translate business needs into automation/AI strategies.
• Ability to conduct feasibility studies, budgets, and project proposals for enterprise-wide initiatives.
• Track record of introducing innovation in automation and AI while maintaining governance and reliability.
• Workato Automation Pro certification preferred.