Role : Director, Engineering

Ignite Your Future:

At QAD, we are building intelligent, adaptive platforms that redefine manufacturing and supply chains. As Director of Engineering, you will own the delivery and technical direction of a major engineering domain, leading multiple teams and managers while partnering closely with Product and senior leadership. This role blends strong people leadership with deep technical credibility, driving cloud-native, AI-enabled enterprise SaaS products at scale.

The Mission: What You'll Be Building

You will lead teams building and evolving QADs next-generation platform across:

- Adaptive Applications the intelligent backbone of the manufacturing enterprise.

- Champion AI agentic AI and data-driven capabilities that accelerate productivity and decision-making.

You will translate strategy into execution, ensuring predictable delivery, strong architecture, and engineering excellence.

Your Impact/ What you will be doing:

- Engineering Leadership & Delivery: Lead multiple engineering teams through Managers and Senior Managers, ensuring timely, high-quality delivery of complex SaaS capabilities.

- Technical Direction: Guide system design and architectural decisions across cloud-native, microservices-based platforms on AWS.

- People & Talent Development: Build, coach, and develop Engineering Managers and senior engineers; create strong succession and growth paths.

- Agile Execution: Drive Agile and product-centric delivery models, balancing speed, quality, and sustainability.

- Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, and DevOps to align roadmaps, priorities, and outcomes.

- Operational Ownership: Own delivery commitments, engineering KPIs, reliability, and continuous improvement within your domain.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Experience & Leadership:

- 1012+ years of software engineering experience with 4+ years in engineering leadership roles.

- Proven experience leading managers and multiple teams delivering enterprise SaaS products.

- Looking for background in Supply chain, Manufacturing, EQMS, Logistics.

- Strong background in cloud platforms (AWS), distributed systems, and modern SDLC practices.

- Ability to balance hands-on technical depth with strategic and people leadership.

Core Technical Foundations / What we are looking for :

- Experience in AI-driven platforms, FinTech, or high-growth SaaS environments.

- Background in startup or scale-up environments, building platforms from the ground up.

- Exposure to agentic AI, intelligent automation, or advanced analytics platforms.

- Strong understanding of modern software engineering principles, system design, and distributed systems.

- Hands-on familiarity with cloud-native architectures (preferably AWS), microservices, APIs, and data-driven systems.

- Solid grounding in SDLC best practices including CI/CD, automated testing, security, and observability.

- Ability to guide architectural decisions, review designs, and ensure long-term scalability and maintainability.

The Mindset :

- Strategic Thinker: Connects business goals to technical execution and prioritization.

- People-First Leader: Invests in coaching, feedback, and building inclusive, high-performing teams.

- Ownership-Oriented: Takes accountability for outcomes, quality, and reliability.

- Execution-Focused: Balances speed with discipline, delivering predictable results.

- Continuous Improver: Constantly looks for ways to improve teams, systems, and processes.

Why QAD ?

Youll be shaping the future of intelligent manufacturing platforms at global scaleworking with ambitious leaders, modern cloud technologies, and AI-driven innovation that delivers real-world impact.