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YOUR MISSION
PUMA is one of the world’s leading Sports Brands that designs and develops footwear, apparel and accessories. It starts in sport and ends in fashion. PUMA offers performance and sport-inspired lifestyle products in categories such as Football, Running, Training, Fitness, Golf and Motorsports. We are committed to working in ways that contribute to the world by supporting creativity, sustainability and peace, and by staying true to the principles of being fair, honest, positive and creative in decisions made and actions taken. Would you like working in a fast pace and multicultural environment? Then PUMA is the right place to be!
Become a member of our successful IT team based in Somerville, MA, USA. We are currently looking for a Head of Integrations
Manage a team of developers including both internal and offshore resources. Conduct performance reviews, goal setting, career development planning, and ensure alignment with PUMA technology and business objectives.
Lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise integration, automation, API, and data solutions that support PUMA North America's strategic initiatives.
Establish and enforce solution design, development, documentation, testing, security, and release management standards across the Integration Development team.
Drive a "design before development" culture by facilitating architecture reviews, technical design sessions, and solution documentation prior to implementation.
Own and continually improve development lifecycle processes, ensuring solutions are properly documented in Confluence and follow established governance, change management, and production release procedures.
Partner with business stakeholders, project managers, and solution architects to evaluate new requests, define requirements, estimate effort, and develop scalable technical solutions.
Guide the team's transition toward modern integration patterns including APIs, event-driven architecture (EDA), cloud-native solutions, AI-enabled services, and reusable integration frameworks.
Support PUMA's SAP S/4HANA transformation initiatives by helping define and implement integration strategies leveraging SAP BTP, SAP Integration Suite (CPI), APIs, events, and master data services.
Collaborate with global technology teams to align integration frameworks, tools, standards, and best practices across regions.
Identify opportunities to modernize, simplify, and refactor existing integrations, ETL processes, and custom applications to improve stability, scalability, supportability, and performance.
Partner with support teams to troubleshoot critical production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term corrective actions.
Oversee integration platform operations, monitoring, release readiness, and production support activities to ensure service levels are consistently met.
Serve as the primary technical leader and escalation point for developers and external consultants.
Develop technical talent through coaching, mentoring, training, and adoption of modern engineering practices including DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, and Infrastructure as Code where appropriate.
Champion innovation and continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to automate business processes, improve data quality, accelerate delivery, and reduce technical debt.
YOUR TALENT
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
5+ years of experience leading technical teams responsible for software development, integration, or enterprise application delivery.
Proven experience…