Teamhead- IT BI Solutions

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.

Your Talent

Eligibility Criteria and Functional Competencies Required:

• 8-10 years of overall IT experience, including 2-3 year of managerial exposure
• 3 years of experience in Azure environment.
• Ideally accomplished MS courses DP-203, AZ104 and AZ 304
• University degree in Computer Sciences or a similar field of studies
• Strong understanding of the following Azure BI Services: Azure Synapse Analytics (Synapse Pipelines; Apache Spark for Synapse, Synapse Studio)
• 3 years of previous coding in Python; Pyspark; Spark SQL and T SQL
• Good skills in DAX (using DAX Studio, Tabular Editor)
• Prior team/people (not tasks!) management is an additional attribute
• Very high motivation in helping/guiding teammates to succeed in projects
• Fluent in business English

Your Mission

Key Objectives:

• PUMA's BI Team is in the process of moving “Puma Data Warehouse” to Azure Cloud, so we are implementing Microsoft's best practices (Enterprise-Scale for Analytics and AI deployed in “Data Landing Zone).
• This is a hybrid role encompassing circa 75% of technical duties, with around 25% of time meant for team/people management.
• Foreseen size of the team is: this position, plus 4 engineers. Functional management of engineers is to be primarily driven from HQ, similarly as own technical tasks to be assigned by one of HQ Teamheads.
• Close collaboration with the Head of IT BI and other IT BI Teamheads to execute the IT BI strategy, while supporting our fast-evolving company needs.
• Co-driving cross-departments initiatives, like architecture, best practices, knowledge sharing, etc.
• Design and Implementation of Spark Solutions end-to-end, from Data Ingestion, Data Lake Design and ELT Design.
• Building of prototypes for PUMA Solution Architects in technological areas of Apache Spark, Synapse Pipelines, Python.
• Deep understanding of all technical components of Azure Synapse/Spark Landscape.
• Extension of BI tabular cube solutions using star schema data modeling.

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.

PUMA supports over 21,000 employees across 51 countries. The PUMA Group owns the brand PUMA, Cobra Golf and stichd, and is headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Germany.