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 cloudnative AIenabled enterprise SaaS products at scale.

The Mission: What Youll Be Building

You will lead teams building and evolving QADs nextgeneration platform across:

• Adaptive Applications the intelligent backbone of the manufacturing enterprise.

• Champion AI agentic AI and datadriven capabilities that accelerate productivity and decisionmaking.

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 highquality delivery of complex SaaS capabilities.

• Technical Direction: Guide system design and architectural decisions across cloudnative microservicesbased 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 productcentric delivery models balancing speed quality and sustainability.

• CrossFunctional 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.

Qualifications :

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.

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

• Ability to balance handson technical depth with strategic and people leadership.

Core Technical Foundations / What we are looking for 

• Experience in AIdriven platforms FinTech or highgrowth SaaS environments.

• Background in startup or scaleup 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.

Additional Information :

Why QAD

This is  an opportunity for strategic ownership and global impact. You will be instrumental in defining and scaling QADs next-generation intelligent manufacturing platform. Lead a major engineering domain influence core architectural decisions across a cloud-native/AWS environment and drive the realization of our Agentic AI vision (Champion AI) that delivers measurable results. You will build and develop a world-class team of leaders and engineers working alongside ambitious senior leadership to redefine the future of the manufacturing enterprise.

Company Description:  

QAD is redefining manufacturing and supply chains through its intelligent adaptive platform that connects people processes and data into a single System of Action. With three core pillars Redzone (frontline empowerment) Adaptive Applications (the intelligent backbone) and Champion AI (Agentic AI for manufacturing) QAD Redzone helps manufacturers operate with Champion Pace achieving measurable productivity resilience and growth in just 90 days. 

QAD is committed to ensuring that every employee feels they work in an environment that values their contributions respects their unique perspectives and provides opportunities for growth regardless of background. QADs DEI program is driving higher levels of diversity equity and inclusion so that employees can bring their whole self to work.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race color sex age national origin religion sexual orientation gender identity status as a veteran and basis of disability or any other federal state or local protected class. 

About QAD:

QAD  Redzone is redefining manufacturing and supply chains through its intelligent adaptive platform that connects people processes and data into a single System of Action. With three core pillars Redzone (frontline empowerment) Adaptive Applications (the intelligent backbone) and Champion AI (Agentic AI for manufacturing) QAD Redzone helps manufacturers operate with Champion Pace achieving measurable productivity resilience and growth in just 90 days.

QAD is committed to ensuring that every employee feels they work in an environment that values their contributions respects their unique perspectives and provides opportunities for growth regardless of background. QADs DEI program is driving higher levels of diversity equity and inclusion so that employees can bring their whole self to work.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race color sex age national origin religion sexual orientation gender identity status as a veteran and basis of disability or any other federal state or local protected class. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time