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You will be part of the DTC Platform Engineering organisation responsible for delivering the shared platforms, engineering services, and foundations that enable product teams to build, test, deploy, and operate software securely and reliably at scale. Product engineering teams are the primary customers of the organisation. Through capabilities such as cloud platforms, developer experience, software delivery, quality engineering, security engineering, performance engineering, and AI-native engineering enablement, the organisation helps accelerate software delivery, improve engineering productivity, and establish consistent engineering standards across the technology landscape.
The Engineering Manager is accountable for engineering delivery, roadmap execution, operational excellence, and engineering team development. Partnering with Product Owners, Project Managers, Tech Leads, Platform Leads, SREs 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
What you will do:
Partner with the Platform Engineering Director to execute platform strategy, roadmap, and engineering initiatives across the organisation.
Ensure platform roadmaps align with the needs, priorities and delivery objectives of product & project teams.
Drive adoption of platform capabilities through developer enablement, training, workshops, and technical knowledge sharing.
Establish effective feedback mechanisms to continuously improve platform capabilities, developer experience, and engineering productivity.
Build strong collaboration models across product engineering teams, architecture, security, SRE, and platform teams to improve platform adoption and effectiveness.
Lead engineering teams delivering integration platforms, shared services, and enterprise integration capabilities.
Drive execution of the integrations roadmap and ensure reliable delivery of reusable integration capabilities across the technology landscape.
Drive quality engineering practices, test automation adoption, and quality enablement capabilities across engineering teams.
Establish and track platform adoption, engineering productivity, software quality, and developer experience metrics.
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.
Coach engineers through regular feedback, mentoring, performance management, and career development.
Build a high-performing engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, collaboration, and learning.
Drive adoption of AI-native engineering capabilities, coding agents and engineering automation to improve developer productivity and software delivery effectiveness.
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.
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 one of the world’s leading sports brands, designing, developing, selling and marketing footwear, apparel and accessories. For more than 75 years, PUMA has relentlessly pushed sport and culture forward by creating fast products for the world’s fastest athletes. PUMA offers performance and sport-inspired lifestyle products in categories such as Football, Running and Training, Basketball, Golf, and Motorsports. It collaborates with renowned designers and brands to bring sport influences into street culture and fashion. The PUMA Group owns the brands PUMA, Cobra Golf and stichd. The company distributes its products in more than 120 countries, employs about 20,000 people worldwide, and is headquartered in Herzogenaurach/Germany.
