Manager, Integration & Development

Job Details

Job Location:

0099 - Corporate - Acton, MA 01420

Salary Range: $ - $ Salary/year

TPS Group Holdings, a family of brands including The Paper Store and Uncharted, is dedicated to creating destinations that inspire, delight, and surprise. Our mission is to connect with every customer through carefully chosen products, immersive shopping experiences, and service that goes the extra mile.

The Manager, Integration & Development is a hands‑on technical leadership role responsible for designing, building, and governing TPS's integration platform and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) aggregation layer that enables AI agent capabilities across the enterprise. This role owns our cloud‑based integration and automation platform as the control plane for enterprise system connectivity from architecture and standards through to day‑to‑day delivery.

In Phase 1, this role operates as an individual technical contributor and architect, with accountability to recruit, build out, and lead a developer pool supporting platform enhancements and application support as headcount is approved.

This is a builder role first. The right candidate is equally comfortable setting integration architecture standards and writing integrations directly on the platform. They will be the primary owner of how TPS systems talk to each other, how AI agents access enterprise data, and how the organization reduces its reliance on external vendors for integration work. The Manager, Integration & Development reports directly to the VP of Technology.

• Be a TPS brand ambassador.
• Own and operate the enterprise iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) as TPS's integration and automation control plane including recipe and workflow architecture, connection governance, environment management, error handling standards, monitoring, and platform roadmap.
• Build integrations directly on the platform from day one the role is hands‑on. Design, develop, test, and deploy integrations for new business initiatives, legacy migration, and AI agent enablement without dependency on external resources for routine work.
• Lead the migration of legacy server‑dependent and file‑based integrations to the modern platform beginning with integrations that block cloud server migration and progressing to externally maintained interfaces to reduce vendor maintenance costs and internal overhead.
• Design, build, and maintain the MCP (Model Context Protocol) aggregation layer establishing the governed, reusable capability layer through which AI agents interact with enterprise systems including e‑commerce, point‑of‑sale, merchandising, and data platforms.
• Define and enforce integration standards across the organization covering event schemas, action definitions, system contracts, API patterns, error handling, retry logic, audit logging, and documentation requirements. All integrations built internally or transitioned from external vendors must conform to these standards.
• Establish and chair the cross‑IT MCP working group partnering with Data & Analytics, Store Systems, Back Office, and Digital & Marketing teams to ensure MCP‑published capabilities accurately reflect real system behavior and meet AI and analytics pipeline requirements.
• Recruit, onboard, and develop a developer pool over time as headcount is approved, hire and lead application developers responsible for platform enhancements and Tier2 support across core retail and e‑commerce systems. Set clear expectations, review technical work, and ensure primary focus remains on development with support as a defined secondary responsibility.
• Own the internal integration development pipeline plan, prioritize, and deliver new integration requests through the IT intake process, replacing the current model of routing routine integration work to external vendors at hourly rates.
• Partner with the Data & Analytics team to ensure integration and MCP output design meets data warehouse ingestion requirements, supports AI and ML model consumption, and maintains data consistency across the integration layer.
• Define and maintain integration security standards in partnership with the…