Engineering Manager Core Commerce Platform

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• About the Organisation & Role:

  You will be part of the Consumer Intelligence & Engagement organisation responsible for delivering the intelligence and engagement capabilities that enable more relevant and personalised consumer experiences across digital channels. The organisation plays a key role in how consumers discover products engage with content and elevate experiences through membership & loyalty. Through capabilities such as personalisation recommendations consumer intelligence experimentation and AI-driven decisioning the organisation helps deliver more contextual data-driven interactions across the consumer journey.

  The Engineering Manager is accountable for engineering delivery roadmap execution operational excellence and engineering team development. Partnering with Product Owners Data Engineering & Analytics Tech Leads and peer engineering teams you will enable predictable delivery grow engineering talent and build a high-performing culture focused on ownership accountability and continuous improvement.

• Drive planning and execution against team objectives and key results (OKRs) ensuring alignment accountability and transparent reporting.

• Own sprint execution delivery planning capacity management dependency management and risk management.

• Partner with Product Owners Project Managers Retail Tech team and Tech Leads to deliver business outcomes.

• Ensure inventory availability delivery promise and omnichannel capabilities are reliable accurate and scalable across channels.

• Drive engineering excellence through strong development practices quality standards operational discipline and continuous improvement.

• Coach engineers through regular feedback mentoring performance management and career development.

• Build a high-performing engineering culture focused on ownership accountability collaboration and learning.

• Establish effective engineering metrics and use data to improve team productivity quality and delivery predictability.

• Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and automation to improve productivity quality and delivery efficiency.

• Identify opportunities to leverage AI across software development testing documentation knowledge management and onboarding.

• Collaborate with engineering leadership on hiring staffing onboarding talent development and succession planning.

Manage delivery partners and vendors where applicable and ensure alignment with team objectives.

• 10 years of software engineering experience with experience leading engineering teams in an agile delivery environment.

• 3 years of people leadership experience.

• Strong experience leading roadmap execution delivery planning dependency management and stakeholder engagement.

• Solid software engineering background with experience building APIs distributed systems and integration-heavy platforms.

• Familiarity with API-first cloud-native architectures and design patterns.

• Familiarity with Order Management Inventory Management platforms.

• Experience working with event-driven architectures high-volume transactional systems and enterprise integrations.

• Strong people leadership skills with experience in hiring mentoring developing and retaining high-performing engineering teams.

• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices including software architecture & engineering principles code quality automated testing CI/CD and AI-assisted development.

• Strong communication collaboration decision-making and organisational leadership skills.

• Experience driving engineering quality operational excellence reliability security and continuous improvement.

• Experience working in Agile delivery environments using tools such as Jira & Confluence or equivalent.

• A data-driven mindset with the ability to use engineering delivery and operational metrics to improve team effectiveness and predictability.

• Experience leveraging coding agents LLMs and AI-assisted engineering tools to improve software delivery and team productivity will be a strong advantage.

• Experience in eCommerce is preferred.

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 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 22000

employees worldwide.