Senior Manager, Integration Engineering at Sony Interactive Entertainment

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?</strong></p> <p>Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.</p></div><p><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Job Description</span></strong></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">We are seeking an experienced Senior Integration Engineering Manager to lead and evolve PlayStation’s Enterprise Integration Engineering capability. We deliver reusable, scalable, and loosely coupled integrations that simplify and automate business processes, improving user experience and data quality across the enterprise.</span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">In this role, you will define the technical direction, engineering practices, and delivery strategy for our enterprise integration platforms (MuleSoft &amp; SnapLogic), while leading and developing a high-performing team of integration engineers.</span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">You will be accountable for engineering strategy, delivery outcomes, technical quality and operational excellence. Working collaboratively with global engineering teams, engineering leaders &amp; managers, architecture, business stakeholders and PMO, to ensure integration solutions are delivered on time, to a high standard of quality, scalability, reliability, and security.</span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">You will bring a strong technical foundation in integration design and delivery. Actively contribute to integration architecture and design discussions, provide technical leadership, and constructively challenge solutions where needed.</span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">You will mentor and develop engineers, foster a strong engineering team culture, and lead the growth of the Enterprise Integration Engineering capability at PlayStation.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What you'll be doing:</strong></span></h2> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Technical Leadership &amp; Architecture</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Define the technical roadmap for the enterprise integration platforms, ensuring they continue to meet current and future business needs.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Evaluate emerging integration technologies and industry trends, recommending strategic investments where appropriate.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Lead and guide the design of enterprise integration solutions across MuleSoft and SnapLogic, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, reusable, and aligned to enterprise standards<br></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Review and constructively challenge integration designs, patterns, and technical decisions, providing clear direction to improve quality, resilience, and maintainability<br></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Drive adoption of modern integration approaches, including API-led, event-driven, pub-sub, asynchronous, and batch/data integration patterns<br></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Define and promote integration standards, design principles, and reusable patterns across the team<br></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Be the escalation point for operational and technical issues.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Delivery &amp; Engineering Management</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Own delivery across a portfolio of integration initiatives, ensuring commitments are met to agreed timelines, scope, quality, and business outcomes.<br></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Determine resource allocation, platform investment, and delivery priorities across multiple concurrent initiatives, balancing technical debt and operational risk to achieve business objectives.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Define and continually improve the engineering operating model, delivery processes, and engineering metrics to increase delivery predictability, platform reliability, and operational excellence.<br></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Lead the team to solve complex technical and delivery challenges, ensuring issues are identified early and resolved effectively<br></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Ensure integrations are secure, scalable, resilient, and observable, with appropriate logging, monitoring, error handling, and operational support models.<br></span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>People &amp; Team Leadership</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Line manage a team of integration engineers, including goal setting, performance management, coaching, and career development.<br></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Develop senior engineers and future technical leaders through coaching, mentoring, and structured career development.<br></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Drive an inclusive engineering culture focused on accountability, innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement.<br></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Lead hiring, onboarding, and organisational planning to build a scalable, high-performing engineering organisation.<br></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Build strong working relationships across global engineering teams and delivery partners.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What we are looking for:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">10+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise integrations across one or more integration platforms (e.g. Informatica, Dell Boomi, Oracle Service Bus, or similar)<br></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">5+ years of hands-on integration design and development experience on MuleSoft and/or SnapLogic</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Strong technical understanding of enterprise integration architecture, patterns, and platform capabilities</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Proven experience leading and developing high-performing engineering teams, including senior engineers and technical leads.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Proven experience reviewing technical design decisions, and providing constructive guidance to improve solution quality.<br></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Experience working with AWS-hosted integration environments, including messaging services such as SQS and SNS<br></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Experience with engineering delivery practices and tooling such as GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, and Terraform<br></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Experience integrating enterprise SaaS (e.g. Salesforce, Workday), cloud-hosted COTS (e.g. SAP) and custom in-house developed and hosted applications.<br></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Ability to balance technical leadership, delivery accountability, and people management responsibilities<br></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely to engineering teams, senior stakeholders, and non-technical audiences<br></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills<br></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Exposure to emerging integration approaches such as MCP servers and agentic-based integrations is desirable</span></li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.<br><br>Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.&nbsp;<br><br>In addition, this role<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>is eligible<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products.&nbsp;This role also may be eligible for a bonus package.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Click&nbsp;<a href="https://careers.playstation.com/benefits" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>to learn more.</p></div><div class="title">The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.</div><div class="pay-range"><span>€111.800</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>€167.600 EUR</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p class="p1">Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.</p> <p class="p1">Please refer to our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.playstation.com/legal/careers-privacy-notice/" target="_blank">Candidate Privacy Notice</a>&nbsp;for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights.</p> <p><strong>Equal Opportunity Statement:</strong></p> <p><em>Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.</em></p> <p><em>We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.&nbsp;</em></p> <p><em>Sony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.</em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p></div>