Engineering Manager – DTC Platform Engineering

PUMA Group; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

PUMA is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the DTC Platform Engineering organisation in delivering shared platforms and services. You will partner with directors and leads to drive roadmap execution, developer enablement, and quality engineering across multiple teams, ensuring secure and reliable software delivery at scale.

You will coach engineers, manage sprint execution, and drive AI-enabled engineering practices while building a high-performing culture focused on ownership

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering with leadership in an agile environment.
• 3+ years of people leadership experience.
• Experience leading roadmap execution and stakeholder engagement.
• Background in shared platforms, developer tooling, or integration services.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Platform Engineering Director to execute platform strategy, roadmap, and initiatives.
• Ensure roadmaps align with product and project priorities and delivery objectives.
• Drive adoption of platform capabilities via developer enablement, workshops, and knowledge sharing.
• Establish feedback mechanisms to improve platform capabilities and developer productivity.
• Collaborate across product engineering, architecture, security, SRE, and platform teams.
• Lead teams delivering integration platforms and shared services.
• Drive integrations roadmap and reliable delivery of reusable capabilities.
• Advocate for test automation and quality engineering practices.
• Track platform adoption, engineering productivity, and software quality metrics.
• Plan and execute OKRs, manage sprint planning and risks.
• Mentor engineers and cultivate a high-performing engineering culture.
• Promote AI-native engineering capabilities and automation.
• Collaborate on hiring, staffing, onboarding, and succession planning.
• Manage delivery partners and vendors as needed.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Roadmap execution

Delivery planning

Stakeholder management

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Quality engineering

AI tooling / AI-native engineering

Communication

People development

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

SPEED & SPIRIT is what we look for in our candidates, defined by some simple values that inspire us to BE DRIVEN in our performance, BE VIBRANT in our sporting legacy, BE TOGETHER in our team spirit, and BE YOU to let our individual talent and experience shine. Applying for a job at PUMA is easy and all genders are welcome.

YOUR MISSION:

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.

YOUR TALENT:

• 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 shared platforms, developer tooling, integration services or engineering enablement capabilities.
• Experience driving test automation, quality engineering, and software quality initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
• Experience driving platform adoption, engineering enablement, developer productivity, or technology transformation initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence engineering teams and drive adoption of shared platforms, standards, and engineering practices.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, developer experience, CI/CD, integration platforms, quality engineering, observability, and platform engineering practices.
• Experience enabling engineering teams through AI-assisted development tools, coding agents, developer productivity platforms, and automation capabilities will be a strong advantage.
• Strong people leadership skills with experience in hiring, mentoring, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering teams.
• Strong communication, collaboration, decision-making, and organisational leadership skills.
• 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.

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.