Teamhead IT Integrations

This role leads the North America Integration Development team, managing internal and offshore developers and serving as the primary technical leader and escalation point. It is responsible for enterprise integration, automation, API and data solutions that support strategic initiatives, including SAP S/4HANA transformation work. Based within the IT team, the role involves collaboration with business stakeholders and global technology teams in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.

• Manage a team of internal and offshore developers, including performance reviews, goal setting, career development planning and 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, and drive a design-before-development culture through architecture reviews, technical design sessions and solution documentation.
• Own and continually improve development lifecycle processes, ensuring solutions are documented in Confluence and follow 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, cloud-native solutions, AI-enabled services and reusable integration frameworks.
• Support 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
• Identify opportunities to modernise, simplify and refactor existing integrations, ETL processes and custom applications to improve stability, scalability, supportability and performance
• And champion innovation and continuous improvement by automating business processes, improving data quality, accelerating delivery and reducing technical debt.
• Partner with support teams to troubleshoot critical production issues, perform root cause analysis and implement long-term corrective actions, and oversee integration platform operations, monitoring, release readiness and production support to ensure service levels are met.
• Serve as the primary technical leader and escalation point for developers and external consultants, and 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.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a 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.
• 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.

• Hands-on experience with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SAP Integration Suite (CPI) and SAP integration patterns.
• Experience delivering ERP integration projects involving SAP S/4HANA.

• Based in Somerville, MA, USA, within the IT team.
• Fast-paced, multicultural environment.

• Bonus is offered in addition to base pay.
• Pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills and experience.

• Benefits package is provided (corporate benefit summary referenced).

PUMA is one of the world's leading sports brands, designing and developing footwear, apparel and accessories, and offering performance and sport-inspired lifestyle products in categories such as football, running, training, fitness, golf and motorsports.