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Responsibilities
- Define and drive a 3–5 year technology strategy and architecture roadmap with the CTO and product leadership.
- Architect multi-tenant, multi-region platform services and establish guardrails for reliability, performance, security, and cost.
- Lead architecture for GenAI and agentic platforms, including LLM orchestration, RAG pipelines, vector search, evaluation, observability, and model governance.
- Shape data foundations involving streaming, lakehouse, and analytics capabilities.
- Establish architecture review forums, design standards, technical-debt priorities, and enterprise governance practices.
- Identify systemic technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and cross-team architectural conflicts.
- Lead technology evaluations, proofs of concept, build-versus-buy decisions, and vendor assessments across cloud, data, AI tooling, and observability.
- Translate ambiguous ideas into executable designs and align customer needs, technical feasibility, and organizational realities.
- Mentor principal engineers and emerging architects while building the architecture leadership bench.
- Partner with product, QA, DevOps/SRE, and engineering leaders and communicate technical trade-offs to executives, customers, and partners.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 15+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least five years in an architect or principal-level role.
- Experience owning architecture across multiple teams or platform areas and influencing 50+ engineers.
- Deep knowledge of cloud-native systems, distributed computing, microservices, event-driven architectures, and modern data architectures.
- Hands-on experience designing production GenAI or agentic systems, including LLM orchestration, RAG, vector databases, evaluation pipelines, and AI observability.
- Strong foundations in data structures and algorithms, object-oriented programming, and modern engineering practices.
- Working fluency in Java, Python, Scala, Go, or Node.js, with a recent history of hands-on design and code reviews.
- Experience establishing governance for quality, performance, resilience, security, and data privacy at enterprise scale.
- Track record of quantified impact involving scale, uptime, latency, cost reduction, or delivery-speed improvement.
- Experience with platform consolidation, cloud migration, or monolith-to-platform transformation is a strong plus.
- Preferred experience includes ERP, supply chain, or manufacturing software; patents or publications; conference talks; or other external technical recognition.
Benefits
- Structured mentorship and training designed for rapid career development.
- Collaborative and inclusive culture with learning, growth, idea-sharing, and diverse perspectives.
- Health and well-being programs supporting work-life balance.
- Opportunity to join a growing business entering a new phase of expansion and transformation.
- Onsite Pune work arrangement with 3–4 days per week in the office; candidates must be willing to be based in Pune.
About QAD, Inc.
QAD builds cloud-based ERP and supply chain software for manufacturing companies, with offerings like QAD Adaptive ERP and the Redzone Connected Workforce platform, sold primarily by subscription with professional services. Its products target mid-market firms across automotive, industrial, food & beverage, life sciences, and consumer goods, embedding workflow and shop-floor capabilities. Founded in 1979 and headquartered in Miami, QAD is privately held and owned by Thoma Bravo.