Technical Lead – IFS

Accountabilities:

• • Lead the technical design, development, evolution, and governance of the IFS Cloud platform and related enterprise applications.
  • Review and approve technical designs, customizations, extensions, integrations, and code quality while ensuring alignment with architectural and development standards.
  • Establish and maintain technical governance, documentation practices, development standards, and upgrade-safe design principles.
  • Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring to developers, consultants, solution architects, and external technology partners.
  • Lead the development of IFS customizations, Aurena pages, projections, custom pages, reports, document solutions, and other platform enhancements.
  • Support IFS configuration, upgrades, implementations, optimization initiatives, automation, and adoption of new functionality.
  • Own the architecture and delivery of integrations between IFS Cloud and CRM, maintenance, logistics, financial, and third-party enterprise systems.
  • Define secure, scalable, and maintainable integration solutions in collaboration with business and technical stakeholders.
  • Design and oversee deployment and release strategies across development, testing, build, and production environments.
  • Govern deployment pipelines, build processes, version control, release management, and production readiness.
  • Monitor platform performance, reliability, and stability while identifying and implementing continuous improvements.
  • Manage and govern system access and authorization levels in accordance with security standards and segregation-of-duties requirements.
  • Partner with business stakeholders to understand requirements, improve processes, and ensure technology initiatives deliver measurable business value.
  • Evaluate technical proposals, guide vendors and external development teams, and act as a trusted advisor on architecture, technical capabilities, and ERP roadmap decisions.

  Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
  • 10+ years of experience working with IFS Applications and/or IFS Cloud, with extensive knowledge of enterprise ERP environments.
  • Strong understanding of enterprise application architecture, integrations, software development lifecycles, ERP ecosystems, DevOps principles, and release management.
  • Proven experience leading technical teams and providing direction to developers across complex, business-critical initiatives.
  • Strong expertise in IFS customizations, extensions, reporting, deployment processes, and platform development.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements and processes into practical, scalable technical solutions.
  • Experience designing and managing integrations between ERP platforms and multiple enterprise or third-party systems.
  • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities, with a structured and solution-oriented approach.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and business communities.
  • Excellent written and spoken English communication skills.
  • A proactive, self-motivated approach with the ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on technical execution.
  • Strong interest in technology, innovation, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing.
  • Collaborative mindset and the ability to thrive within a multicultural, global working environment.

  Benefits

  • Remote work opportunity based in India or Malaysia.
  • Opportunity to shape the future of a global IFS Cloud platform supporting critical international business operations.
  • Exposure to large-scale ERP transformation, enterprise architecture, integrations, and international technology initiatives.
  • Collaboration with experienced technology, ERP, architecture, and business professionals across a global organization.
  • Strong opportunities for career development, technical leadership, and continuous learning.
  • A culture that values innovation, flexibility, collaboration, and work-life balance.
  • Opportunity to influence technical strategy while remaining involved in hands-on delivery.
  • Meaningful opportunity to deliver technology solutions that create measurable value across a global business.