Technical Lead (QAD)

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Technical Lead (QAD) based in India .

We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead specializing in QAD to drive the design, development, and maintenance of complex enterprise applications. In this role, you will translate business requirements into robust technical solutions, lead application development initiatives, and support integrations and data conversion activities. You will work closely with business analysts, programmers, project teams, and end users to ensure systems meet business needs and technical standards. A key part of your responsibilities will involve overseeing data quality, testing, and application reliability throughout the project lifecycle. You will also provide technical guidance, troubleshoot issues, and identify opportunities to improve existing systems and processes. This is an opportunity to contribute your QAD expertise in a collaborative environment supporting critical business applications.

Accountabilities

• Analyze, design, develop, implement, and maintain complex applications with minimal supervision.

• Ensure applications comply with departmental standards, appropriate controls, and audit requirements, and are thoroughly tested before production deployment.

• Identify, document, and assess current and future business processes, including gaps between existing and desired workflows.

• Translate user and business requirements into technical specifications, designs, and development initiatives.

• Design and develop application architecture and code, including database components, scripting, and user interface elements.

• Develop technical and functional architectures for system interfaces, including field mapping and data transformation.

• Support business analysts and programmers in identifying data fields and requirements for conversion activities.

• Lead project teams and end users through data validation and quality assurance processes.

• Document issues as they arise and collaborate with relevant stakeholders to investigate and resolve them.

• Coordinate and support user acceptance testing, ensuring test activities are completed effectively.

• Provide ongoing application support and contribute to user and technical training activities.

• Prepare technical documentation, specifications, and infrastructure requirements for development projects.

• Research emerging technologies, industry trends, and standards, recommending and implementing improvements where appropriate.

• Conduct feasibility assessments of alternative solutions, considering technical, infrastructure, organizational, and financial factors.

• Perform project management activities, including task definition, effort estimation, scheduling, dependency management, resource allocation, critical path analysis, and issue resolution.

Requirements:

• Strong expertise in Progress 4GL programming, CIM Loads, and QXTEND.

• Hands-on experience working with QAD ERP systems, including different versions of SE and EE.

• A bachelor's degree with at least 8 years of relevant programming experience, or a master's degree with at least 5 years of relevant experience.

• Strong capabilities in systems analysis, technical design, application development, and enterprise application maintenance.

• Experience designing application architectures, databases, scripts, user interfaces, and system integrations.

• Understanding of data conversion, field mapping, data transformation, validation, and quality assurance processes.

• Ability to translate complex business requirements into practical technical solutions.

• Experience supporting testing activities, including user acceptance testing, and providing ongoing application support.

• Strong technical documentation and problem-solving skills.

• Project coordination and management capabilities, including planning, estimation, scheduling, and resource management.

• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with business analysts, developers, project teams, and end users.

• Curiosity about emerging technologies and a proactive approach to continuous improvement.

Benefits:

• Work arrangement: Fully remote position based in India.

• Employment type: Full-time.

• Opportunity to work on complex enterprise application development and QAD ERP initiatives.

• Exposure to cross-functional project teams and business-critical technology solutions.