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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 managing and mentoring development teams in a fast-paced, evolving technology environment.
- Strong experience leading enterprise integration programs using APIs, messaging technologies, event-driven architecture, ETL, and cloud integration platforms.
- Experience delivering large-scale ERP integration projects, preferably involving SAP S/4HANA.
- Hands-on experience with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SAP Integration Suite (CPI), and SAP integration patterns is strongly preferred.
- Experience with integration technologies such as Boomi, MuleSoft, Azure Integration Services, SAP CPI, or similar enterprise integration platforms.
- Strong understanding of solution architecture, systems integration design, and software engineering best practices.
- Experience establishing and enforcing development lifecycle processes including technical design reviews, documentation standards, testing strategies, release management, and change control.
- Experience building and maintaining technical documentation and knowledge management repositories using platforms such as Confluence.
- Strong knowledge of REST APIs, web services, message queues, event streaming, SFTP, and modern integration protocols.
- Understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, source control, automated deployments, and software delivery governance.
- Knowledge of systems, security, networking, and cloud architecture as they relate to enterprise application development and integrations.
The hiring range base pay for this position is $109,200-$148,250 + Bonus + Benefits.
(Benefit Summary Corporate)
Pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
PUMA provides equal opportunities for all job applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex,
gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or disability. Equality for all is one of the core principles at
PUMA and we do not tolerate any form of harassment or discrimination.
At PUMA, every application is reviewed by real people who are committed to fairness, transparency, and equal
opportunity - no matter your background, identity, or experience.To ensure our process stays true to these values, no automated systems or AI tools are used to make hiring decisions. Every decision is made by real people -with real judgment and accountability. We may use functions supported by Artificial Intelligence (AI) to carry out isolated organizational steps, such as scheduling interviews. These functions have no influence on decisions in the application process. We believe in creating spaces where everyone is welcome, celebrated, and empowered to contribute authentically. Because at PUMA, whoever wants to play, can play.
PUMA is a global sports brand creating footwear, apparel, and accessories that inspire athletes and everyday movers. The PUMA Group owns PUMA, Cobra Golf, and stichd, operates in 120+ countries, and has around 22,000
employees worldwide.
PUMA is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of PUMA to prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type and to afford equal employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender, physical or mental disability, veteran-status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.For additional information, please contact: us-hrrecruiter@puma.com