YOUR MISSIONBecome 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.
