ERP Platform Architect

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.

The ERP Platform Architect owns the architecture of the foundation underneath Adaptive ERP: the frameworks, shared services, data layer, and runtime that every functional area builds on. This architect is the technical partner to the Director, ERP Platform: one engineering head paired with one architect.

Open: final scope and level to be confirmed.

Responsibilities

• Develop the platform architecture and technical roadmap with the Director, ERP Platform and the Lead Architect.

• Define clear contracts and standards for shared platform services: application interfaces, integrations, identity, data access, and extensibility.

• Assess legacy dependencies and technical debt, and design incremental modernization paths that preserve compatibility for customers.

• Set requirements for performance, security, resilience, observability, and testability.

• Review designs and critical implementation choices, using prototypes to resolve hard platform risks.

• Coach engineers and provide technical input into development plans and promotion assessments.

Required Skills:

• Senior architecture and hands-on engineering experience on a complex enterprise software platform.

• Deep knowledge of frameworks, data layers, APIs, integration patterns, extensibility, and multi-environment deployment.

• A record of modernizing established software incrementally, balancing long-term architecture with delivery.

• Influence across engineering teams, turning architectural decisions into implemented outcomes.

Preferred: 

• Enterprise ERP or manufacturing software experience.

• Experience with Progress/OpenEdge environments and Java services.

• AI-assisted modernization or development.

What success looks like

One coherent target architecture that every workstream builds toward, cross-team technical decisions made quickly, and visible progress in modernizing the product.

The benchmark is a chief-architect-calibre leader early in that arc: broad, credible with executives, and able to drive change rather than only advise on it.

Why QAD?

You’ll be shaping the future of intelligent manufacturing platforms at global scale—working with ambitious leaders, modern cloud technologies, and AI‑driven innovation that delivers real‑world impact.

• 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.