ERP Platform Architect

Job Summary

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.

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