Technical Lead (QAD)

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.