Would you like to be a part of the organization where high energy meets intellect? If you get excited by solving puzzles and working in a collaborative environment, then Aptean wants to work with you!!

Aptean is a leading global provider of industry-focused mission critical enterprise software solutions. Our solutions help nearly 6,500 organizations stay at the forefront of their industries by satisfying their customers and continuing to operate more efficiently. Headquartered in Alpharetta, GA, Aptean has offices in North America, Europe, and India, as well as an extensive Partner Channel. Our customers are located in 74 countries across Europe, Latin America, and North America.     

 Aptean is focused on providing products and solutions to customers in specific verticals. Our products are rich in feature and functionality and delivered on premise, SaaS and Hybrid delivery models. Aptean’s products deliver value at lowest total cost of ownership and scale with needs of our customers. Most of our products and solutions are leaders in the vertical market segments they serve.

Aptean uses its core values of Drive For Results, Win Together, Foster Innovation, and Be Courageous to guide its employee community to serve every customer in every geography and market.

Position Information

S/he should have professional qualifications with several years of work experience, specialized knowledge of work area and good people management/interpersonal skills. S/he is able to propose product development strategies, keeps abreast of technology, and manages delivery, quality, cost and recruitment of the project. Has the ability to independently evaluate, choose and implement processes.

Leads the R&D development team for the IMI AOM product program. Manages people aspects with full line management responsibilities for the team members including mentoring and coaching. Leads the development activities and acts as main project manager for release projects. Sets priorities and goals together with the Director, Development. Manages the agile development process with sprint planning and daily scrum meetings. Manages sustainable engineering activities and core support issues.

We seek a dedicated and motivated software development manager looking for the opportunity to apply his or her skills and experience to manage a highly skilled and experienced team focused on our supply chain products IMI Advanced Order Management (AOM) with add-ons. The solution architecture includes a variety of technologies including a .NET-based smart client user interface with a server back-end architecture with Oracle database and applications developed with a 4GL tool (Trim). The add-ons are mainly web applications based on JEE.

Main duties and responsibilities

1. Applies knowledge to practical issues often relating to more than one functional area.
2. Provides overall direction for complex activities - providing guidance and inputs for a medium-sized project or multiple small-sized projects. Resolution of problems require analysis of facts and general principles.
3. Has a significant impact on a small department/function. The role manages work activities of team through individual contributors.
4. Responsible for conducting appraisals, feedback to employees and handling team work allocations.
5. Ability to adapt to various communication styles and interpret non-routine and conflicting information.
6. Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures, determines a course of action based on these guidelines.
7. Good project and people management skills are required.
8. Interacts with internal and/or external clients and customers to negotiate and interpret information on projects and unit operations. May consult with senior management.
9. Ability to do Project Management, Resource Management, Customer Management, Estimation, Release Planning for multiple products.
10. End to end release project management, from requirement interpretation and estimation to QA and release packaging.
11. Ability to create motivational and positive culture.

Use own technical and functional skills to also perform own development and QA work

Knowledge and Skills

Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 6 years' experience; or equivalent experience. Typical range of experience is 10-13 years.

Collaborative Leadership Skills, change management skills. Accountability, decision making and team management skills. Team motivation and role model for members of team. Ability to represent product team. Excellent written and spoken Communication skills, active listening. Mentoring and Coaching, giving and receiving feedback. Negotiation skills. Stakeholder communication, handling conflicts. Excellent relationship building skills. Intercultural skills, ability to work with Global teams at different time zones. Working knowledge about agile development processes and tools for issue management and version control (like TFS, ClearCase, SDCM etc).

Technical proficiency in the product architecture and development platforms is a big advantage, as is domain knowledge from Supply Chain Management and Warehouse Management.

If you are determined to give your best every day and you are seeking an opportunity to work with an amazing group of people, then apply online today!