Senior Director, R&D Platform Modernization & Optimization Position Available In Fulton, Georgia

APTEAN Position Title:

Senior Director, R D –

Platform Modernization & Optimization Location:

Atlanta GA USA Alpharetta, Georgia US Location Details:

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Experienced Professional Country:

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Employee Regular Full Time Job Description Overview Are you ready for what’s next, now? Senior Director, R D –

Platform Modernization & Optimization Location:

Alpharetta, GA (Hybrid)

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Senior Director 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, 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. Key Responsibilities 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 Required Qualifications 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. Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. PI273072421