2025-06-10
APTEAN
Other
/yr
employee
contract
Alpharetta
Georgia
30004
United States
APTEAN
Position Title: Senior Director, R&D – Platform Modernization & Optimization
Location: Atlanta GA USA Alpharetta, Georgia US
Location Details: Onsite
Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Country: United States
Type: Employee Regular Full Time
Are you ready for what’s next, now?
Location: Alpharetta, GA (Hybrid)
Level: Senior Director
Aptean is a pioneering SaaS company delivering purpose-built solutions to manufacturing verticals across the globe. Our mission is to solve tomorrow’s unique challenges today, through industry-specific ERP and supply chain platforms that drive operational efficiency, compliance, and innovation. As we continue to grow and modernize our portfolio—including recent acquisitions—we’re expanding our R&D leadership bench to support platform transformation at scale.
We are seeking a hands-on, senior engineering leader to drive modernization and development initiatives across Aptean’s enterprise planning platform. This Senior Director will oversee engineering delivery across a suite of products—ranging from Supply Planning and Network Optimization to Demand Planning and Inventory Optimization & Response—while helping to unify and evolve our architecture through greenfield builds and strategic platform integrations.
This role sits at the center of Aptean’s modernization strategy and requires someone who excels at technical orchestration, cross-functional alignment, and high-velocity execution.
Lead multiple concurrent R&D workstreams, including legacy modernization, new feature development, and integration of acquired platforms into a cohesive enterprise planning suite
Translate architectural direction into scalable engineering plans and oversee consistent delivery across cross-functional teams
Drive platform improvements in stability, performance, extensibility, and interoperability with other Aptean and customer systems
Partner with Product, QA, DevOps, and Data teams to ensure timely, secure, and scalable releases
Identify and remove technical bottlenecks, oversee resourcing, and implement best-in-class development and DevOps practices
Champion modern engineering practices—CI/CD pipelines, containerization, automated testing, and cloud-native design
Support M&A integrations from a technical perspective, ensuring seamless adoption and architecture alignment
10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years in technical leadership roles in enterprise SaaS or SCM/ERP platforms
Proven success managing 8–10 concurrent initiatives across multiple product lines or technical areas
Strong background in platform modernization, cloud migration, and high-scale, multi-tenant SaaS environments
Technical fluency in modern infrastructure (Azure preferred), containerized systems (e.g., Kubernetes), and CI/CD automation
Experience participating in M&A technical diligence and post-acquisition engineering integration
Strong communication skills and the ability to partner across technical and non-technical stakeholders
What’s in it for you?
Aptean offers competitive pay and robust benefit plans along with the opportunity to
grow your career in a fast-paced, flexible and casual environment, an outstanding
opportunity for career development and growth. ?
About Aptean
At Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow’s unique challenges today with unrivaled,
purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care.
Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions.
Aptean’ s purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the
unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors and other
focused organizations. Aptean’ s compliance solutions are built for companies serving
specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech and pharmaceuticals, over?10,000
highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 80 countries rely on
Aptean to streamline their everyday operations.
“At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through
embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual
power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company.” –
TVN Reddy
Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are
central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers,
build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can
succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity,
religion, disability or age. Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs
allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing
innovative solutions to our customer base.
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