Associate Systems Architect

Company Description

QAD is building a world-class SaaS company, and we are growing. We are looking for talented individuals who want to join us on our mission to help solve relevant real-world problems in manufacturing and the supply chain.

We are a virtual first company and your primary work experience will be virtual / working from your home.  Occasional travel to a physical office may be required to enhance working relationships, collaboration, design, strategy and alignment.    

Job Description

As a Systems Architect for QAD, you will be responsible for the design, description and managing the development of solutions to support our client's business strategies.  You’ll be leading and/or supporting initiatives and introducing technical visions for a solution within the Enterprise Architecture Framework. 

You will work within the Observability/Engineering team to design, implement, enhance and maintain current and future QAD products and tools. You’ll perform software architecting and engineering functions and mentor junior software engineers as well as assist management with preparation of documents and materials related to project planning, architecting documenting and scheduling, etc. 

You’ll work closely with stakeholders to ensure the sound development and implementation of software solutions.  You will also facilitate resolution of conflicts that arise during the development lifecycle through effective partnership with stakeholders at all levels of the organization. Optionally you’ll lead projects from initial idea through deployment, including the beta and alpha phases of a product deployment and you’ll stay abreast of new technologies to ensure QAD offerings are as current as possible.

This is a fully remote opportunity, based in India.

Note: The role will require the person to support in EMEA shifts ( 1 pm IST to 11 pm IST - any 9 hour shift)

Responsibilties:

• Analyze, develop, enhance and maintain software applications/products and tools. Includes creation of design specification, development and unit testing of source code, review of source code, schema design, prototyping, helping other developers understand designs, and documentation. 

• Create automation tools to improve internal processes.

• Manage and enhance processes used for continuous integration, automated builds, source code control and test environment set-up. 

• Review and identify improvement opportunities within the full SDLC that will lead to higher quality and more efficient processes. 

• Document and communicate areas of concern for development operations.

• Serve as a source of architectural and technical domain knowledge for the QAD product line and the tools that support it. 

• Provide training/mentoring to O&M and A&E engineers. 

• Lead rollout of new solutions to the Observability and Engineering teams. 

• Review solutions that will be rolled out and its corresponding project documents of other teams to provide feedback.

• Perform analysis of business and customer requirements to determine product specifications and ensure that solutions conform to current industry standards. 

• Identify and implement best practices.  

• Work with management to evolve software architecture based on evolving system requirements and industry trends and technologies.

• Assist IT, Observability and Engineering with resolving customer issues involving integration, performance, deployment or any other issues that negatively impact the user experience.

Qualifications

• Professional degree: BE/ B Tech/ MCA/BSC-IT, Computer Science.

• 1-3  years of Architecture and Engineering experience. Infrastructure and administration with focus on Linux

• Python, BASH, Powershell experience is mandatory. 

• Preferred Experience: Ansible Tower, CI/CD, Terrafom, Jenkins

• Preferable: Icinga, Zabbix, CloudWatch, Salt, Rundeck, C#, JavaScript, HTML, SQL, PHP and XML

• Driving through customer strategies in often complex, mixed technology environments.

• Balancing technological and business solutions to address client needs.

• Defining features, requirements and development phases against which delivery must be made.

• Developing solution specifications in line with business strategies and appropriate frameworks. 

• Integration Architectures and incorporating how solutions can be integrated and interact within one another.

• Business Architecture and how the analysis of the current business operating model will be impacted by change, which is driving the need for solution design. 

• Process improvement and or new process development are also a key area.

• Enterprise Architecture collaboration and continuous improvement in supporting principals, standards, policies and technology strategy.

Additional Information

• Your health and well being are important to us at QAD. We provide programs that help you strike a healthy work-life balance.
• Opportunity to join a growing business, launching into its next phase of expansion and transformation.
• Collaborative culture of smart and hard-working people who support one another to get the job done.
• An atmosphere of growth and opportunity, where idea-sharing is always prioritized over level or hierarchy.
• Compensation packages based on experience and desired skill set

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About QAD:

QAD Inc. is a leading provider of adaptive, cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies. Global manufacturers face ever-increasing disruption caused by technology-driven innovation and changing consumer preferences. In order to survive and thrive, manufacturers must be able to innovate and change business models at unprecedented rates of speed. QAD calls these companies Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprises. QAD solutions help customers in the automotive, life sciences, packaging, consumer products, food and beverage, high tech and industrial manufacturing industries rapidly adapt to change and innovate for competitive advantage.

QAD 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. QAD’s DEI program is driving higher levels of diversity, equity and inclusion so that employees can bring their whole self to work.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. 

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