Director, Engineering OR Sr Manager, Engineering (Supply Chain / EQMS / Manufacturing Domain)

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 QAD’s 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