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 lead the engineering organization responsible for helping QAD customers move to Adaptive while systematically reducing the complexity of implementations, upgrades, and customer change. You will own the foundational capabilities upon which our ERP applications are built as well as our AI-driven transformation tooling designed to analyze, simplify, and accelerate customers' transition to Adaptive.

This role combines engineering leadership, technical depth, product thinking, and transformation. You will lead multiple teams and managers, work across internal and partner engineering organizations, and help define how AI can fundamentally change the way complex enterprise software is analyzed, modernized, and transformed.

The Mission: What You'll Be Building

Your organization sits at the intersection of QAD's existing ERP estate and its future. You will lead teams responsible for:

- AI-Driven Customer Transformation — Build intelligent tooling that helps analyze and streamline existing customer environments, reduce implementation and upgrade complexity, and accelerate the transition to Adaptive.

- Extensibility — Own and evolve the foundational capabilities upon which ERP functional modules are built, ensuring they support the needs of the broader Adaptive Applications organization.

- Customer Streamlining — Partner across Engineering, Product, Services,



and other QAD organizations to systematically reduce customer complexity and prepare existing ERP customers for Adaptive.

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.

- AI-Driven Transformation: Lead the development and evolution of AI capabilities that automate and accelerate the analysis, streamlining, and transformation of existing ERP customer environments.

- Customer Transformation: Work across Engineering, Product, Services, and other stakeholders to understand the complexity of existing customer environments and turn those challenges into scalable product capabilities.

- 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

- Partner & Vendor Leadership: Lead effectively across a hybrid model of internal and partner engineering teams, establishing transparent technical direction, accountability, ownership, and quality expectations.

📌 Director, Engineering - ERP (Pune)
🏢 QAD
📍 Pune