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Serving thousands of global manufacturers, QAD's Adaptive Manufacturing Cloud helps companies operate with greater precision, agility, and intelligence.\nEnterprise 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.\n The Lead Architect i s one of three leaders who own the Adaptive transformation end to end, alongside the SVP Engineering and the Adaptive product lead. This person sets the technical and architectural direction for Adaptive ERP and keeps every workstream pointed at one target architecture. It is a senior, versatile role: deep enough in ERP to understand decades of product history, and modern enough to lead it toward a cloud-native future.\nResponsibilities\nSet the architectural vision and technical strategy for Adaptive ERP and the transformation.\n\nKeep technical decisions coherent across the ERP functional, platform, Lynx and Extensions, quality, and infrastructure workstreams.\n\nWith engineering and product leadership, define outcomes, sequence work, surface dependencies, and make the hard architectural trade-offs.\n\nLead modernization of platform, deployment, data, and integration while protecting upgradeability, security, and reliability.\n\nSet architectural standards and guide the architects embedded in each engineering area.\n\nExplain complex technical choices to executives, customers, and partners in business terms.\n\n Required Skills:\nDeep architecture experience on a major enterprise ERP product, understanding how business processes, application behavior, data, integrations, and deployment interact.\n\nA proven record leading a large modernization of a mature enterprise product toward cloud and SaaS.\n\nStrong grounding in modern architecture: cloud platforms (AWS preferred), services, APIs, extensibility, data, and DevOps.\n\nThe judgment and presence to operate as an accountable peer to senior engineering and product leaders.\n\nPreferred:\nExperience at SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Infor, Epicor, or a comparable ERP provider.\n\nManufacturing ERP experience.\n\nExperience using AI in software development and in the product.\n\nWhat success looks like\nOne coherent target architecture that every workstream builds toward, cross-team technical decisions made quickly, and visible progress in modernizing the product.\nThe 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.\nWhy QAD?\nYou’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.\n Your health and well being are important to us at QAD. We provide programs that help you strike a healthy work-life balance.\nOpportunity to join a growing business, launching into its next phase of expansion and transformation.\nCollaborative culture of smart and hard-working people who support one another to get the job done.\nAn atmosphere of growth and opportunity, where idea-sharing is always prioritized over level or hierarchy.\nCompensation packages based on experience and desired skill set\nAbout QAD:\nQAD | 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.\nQAD 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. 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