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Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters-at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.\nAt IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.\nWe celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.\nBy joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.\nWe’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.\nIf you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.\n We are looking for a Senior Engineering Leader to lead in the Manufacturing Product organization at IFS. This role operates at a strategic and organizational level, overseeing a multi-layered engineering organization comprising Engineering Directors, Architects, and Principal Engineers.\nYou will be responsible for defining and executing engineering strategy across multiple teams and domains, ensuring alignment with product vision, architecture direction, and business priorities.\nWhile this is a senior leadership role, technical depth and sound engineering judgment remain critical. You are expected to guide architectural direction, influence key technical decisions, and ensure strong engineering discipline across the organization.\nAI is a core enabler and strategic priority in this role. You will drive enterprise-wide adoption of AI-assisted engineering and AI-powered product capabilities, ensuring measurable impact on both engineering productivity and customer value.\nWhat You’ll Do\nOrganizational Leadership\nLead a multi-layered engineering organization, including Engineering Directors, Architects, and Principal Engineers\n\nDefine and execute the engineering strategy for Manufacturing, aligned with product and company-wide technology direction\n\nDrive organizational design, capability building, and succession planning\n\nBuild a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement\n\nScale leadership capability by coaching and developing leaders of leaders\n\nDelivery and Execution\nOwn delivery outcomes across multiple teams, ensuring predictability, quality, and timely execution at scale\n\nEstablish and evolve consistent engineering operating models and execution practices\n\nBalance business priorities, technical investments, and operational excellence\n\nEnsure teams operate with a “you build it, you run it” mindset\n\nTechnical & Architectural Leadership\nProvide strategic technical direction across teams, in close collaboration with Architecture\n\nInfluence and governing architecture decisions, platform evolution, and system design standards\n\nEnsure high standards across:\n\nCloud-native architecture\n\nCI/CD and DevOps practices\n\nAutomated testing, observability, and security\n\nMaintain strong technical credibility and intervene hands-on where it adds the most value\n\nAI Leadership\nDrive organization-wide adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices\n\nEnable teams to improve delivery speed, quality, and confidence using AI\n\nGuide development of AI-enabled Manufacturing capabilities\n\nEnsure AI usage is practical, responsible, and outcome-driven\n\nCross-functional Collaboration\nPartner closely with Product Management, Architecture, and Manufacturing domain leaders\n\nAligning engineering execution with business priorities and customer outcomes\n\nRepresent Engineering in senior leadership and strategic forums\n\nManufacturing Domain Leadership\nProvide strong leadership across key Manufacturing domains, including:\n\nEnd-to-end Manufacturing lifecycle (Plan, Build, Quality, Maintain\n\nRegulatory and industry-specific requirements\n\nLarge-scale, configurable, multi-tenant Manufacturing Solutions\n\nAligning Manufacturing strategy with platform, data, and integration capabilities\n\nRequired Background\nStrong foundation in software engineering and enterprise application development\n\nExtensive experience leading leaders (Directors/Managers) and senior technical experts\n\nProven track record delivering large-scale, complex software systems across multiple teams\n\nDeep understanding of modern architectures (cloud-native, APIs, distributed systems, agentic workflows)\n\nAbility to operate effectively at both strategic and technical levels\n\nStrong communication, decision-making, and stakeholder management skills\n\nCustomer obsession, ability to work hands on with customers on site, including travel to key manufacturing customer locations.\n\n Preferred Experience\nManufacturing, ERP, or industrial enterprise software\n\nPlatform or multi-product engineering leadership\n\nExperience scaling engineering organizations and driving transformation\n\nAI-enabled enterprise product development\n\nExecutive-level stakeholder engagement\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\nYou balance strategic leadership with strong technical depth\n\nYou lead leaders and build high-performing organizations\n\nYou create clarity and alignment while empowering teams to succeed\n\nYou care deeply about quality, sustainability, and customer value\n\nYou see AI as a practical enabler of transformation\n\nYou scale impact by enabling others, not controlling them\n\n Interviews and selections are being made continuously. If you are interested, apply as soon as possible.\nAs a step in our recruitment process, all final candidates will undergo a background check, to get us an understanding of our future employees.\nWe respectfully decline all offers of recruitment and/or advertising assistance.\nIFS Fact\nIFS develops and delivers enterprise software for customers around the world who manufacture and distribute goods, build and maintain assets, and manage service-focused operations. The industry expertise of our people and solutions, together with a commitment to delivering value to every one of our customers, has made IFS a recognized leader and the most recommended supplier in our sector. Our team of 7,000+ employees and growing ecosystem of partners support more than 10,000 customers around the world challenge the status quo and realize their competitive advantage. Learn more about how our enterprise software solutions can help your business today at ifs.com.\nWe believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. 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