Director, R&D – Application Development & Delivery
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Location: Alpharetta, GA (Onsite)

Company Overview

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.

Position Summary

We are seeking a hands-on, engineering leader to drive modernization and development initiatives across Aptean's enterprise planning platform. This Director will oversee engineering delivery across multiple supply chain planning products 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead multiple concurrent R&D workstreams, including legacy modernization, new feature development, and integration of 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

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years in technical leadership roles in enterprise SaaS or SCM/ERP platforms
• Proven success managing 3-5 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 due-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.