Chief Technical Architect, Engineering

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🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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QAD

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1979

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

🍽️ Food & Beverage

Manufacturing • Logistics • Food & Beverage

QAD is a company specializing in enterprise resource planning and industrial transformation solutions. Their Adaptive Enterprise platform helps businesses optimize processes, align people with technology, and manage critical business challenges. QAD's offerings include software for manufacturing, inventory management, supply chain planning, quality management, and global trade compliance. Their solutions serve a range of industries, including automotive, consumer products, food and beverage, industrial manufacturing, and more. The company focuses on becoming an adaptive enterprise by integrating advanced scheduling and data-driven insights.

📋 Description

• Define, communicate, and drive the 3–5 year technology strategy and architecture roadmap • Work directly with the CTO and product leadership • Architect multi-tenant, multi-region platform services with clear service boundaries • Set guardrails for reliability, performance, security, and cost • Move teams from product silos toward shared, reusable platform capabilities • Lead architecture of the GenAI and agentic platform, including LLM orchestration, RAG pipelines, vector search, evaluation, observability, and model governance • Lead architecture of data foundations including streaming, lakehouse, and analytics • Establish and run architecture review forums, design standards, and technical-debt prioritization • Identify and resolve systemic technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and cross-team architectural conflicts • Lead technology evaluations, proofs of concept, and commercial assessments across cloud, data, AI tooling, and observability • Make build-versus-buy and vendor decisions using TCO and unit-economics reasoning • Turn nascent ideas into clear, executable designs • Mentor principal engineers and emerging architects • Build the architecture leadership bench • Partner with Product VPs, QA, DevOps/SRE, and engineering leadership to secure alignment • Convey complex technical trade-offs to executives, customers, and partners and drive consensus • Serve as the senior recognized technical expert across the organization

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline • 15+ years of professional software engineering experience • At least 5 years in an architect or principal-level role • Experience at a product company, ideally SaaS • Owned architecture across multiple teams or platform areas • Influenced 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, OOP, and modern engineering practices • Working fluency in Java, Python, Scala, Go, or Node.js • Recent history of hands-on design and code reviews • Proven ability to establish governance for quality, performance, resilience, security, and data privacy at enterprise scale • Track record of quantified impact such as scale, uptime, latency, cost reduction, or delivery-speed improvement • Candidates must be willing to be based in Pune • Experience with platform consolidation, cloud migration, or monolith-to-platform transformation is a strong plus • Experience in ERP, supply chain, or manufacturing software is preferred • Patents, publications, conference talks, or other external technical recognition are preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Structured mentorship program and training designed for rapid career development • Collaborative and inclusive environment • Programs supporting healthy work-life balance • Opportunity to join a growing business in its next phase of expansion and transformation • Collaborative culture with supportive colleagues • Growth and opportunity with idea-sharing prioritized over level or hierarchy • Compensation packages based on experience and desired skill set