Director, Engineering OR Sr Manager, Engineering… at QAD · Pune

Company Description

QAD is a leading provider of ERP solutions purpose-built for manufacturing industries — automotive, life sciences, food & beverage, high tech, and industrial. Serving thousands of global manufacturers, QAD's Adaptive Manufacturing Cloud helps companies operate with greater precision, agility, and intelligence.

Enterprise software is entering a third era. The first gave manufacturers a System of Record — ERP that answered 'what do we have and what did we commit to?' The second gave them Data Infrastructure — the ability to move, analyse, and query that data at scale. The third era is domain-specific intelligence: AI agents that can act autonomously on manufacturing data, but only if that data has been given the context, relationships, and governed rules that allow an agent to reason correctly.

ERA — QAD's Enterprise Resource Action platform — is the domain intelligence layer that sits between any ERP and any AI agent. It encodes what manufacturing data means, governs what agents are permitted to do, and makes every autonomous decision traceable and accountable.

Job Description

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

Qualifications

Required Skills & Qualifications

Experience & Leadership

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ 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 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.

Additional Information

• Your health and well being are important to us at QAD. We provide programs that help you strike a healthy work-life balance.
• Opportunity to join a growing business, launching into its next phase of expansion and transformation.
• Collaborative culture of smart and hard-working people who support one another to get the job done.
• An atmosphere of growth and opportunity, where idea-sharing is always prioritized over level or hierarchy.
• Compensation packages based on experience and desired skill set

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. QAD’s 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.