Engineering Manager - Core Commerce Platform

The Engineering Manager is part of PUMA's Consumer Intelligence & Engagement organisation, which delivers intelligence and engagement capabilities that enable more relevant, personalised consumer experiences across digital channels. The organisation supports how consumers discover products, engage with content and elevate experiences through membership and loyalty, using capabilities such as personalisation, recommendations, consumer intelligence, experimentation and AI-driven decisioning. The role is accountable for engineering delivery, roadmap execution, operational excellence and engineering team development.

• 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 and 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 and 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 and 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.
• Experience in eCommerce.

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's 'Speed & Spirit' values are defined as being driven in performance, vibrant in sporting legacy and together in team spirit.