Director, R&D – Application Development & Delivery

Overview

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, over10,000

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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