Head of Software Development

• Leads technical strategic planning to maximise business goals through the development and deployment of all products and services, and is accountable for predictable, high-quality release outcomes.

• Defines development standards, organization and methodologies for the company, and coordinates plans across multiple product lines in partnership with Architecture.

• Collaborates closely with the business and customer segments to understand market requirements and help translate strategic and product priorities into technology roadmap plans.

• Manages prioritisation of strategic objectives with operational, client-facing support for multiple teams and products. Owns the priority and work-assignment process end to end, against a single, auditable system of record.

• Champions AI-led engineering practice across the organization — setting the bar for AI-assisted code quality, defining guardrails for AI-generated code (review, testing, security, IP), and driving adoption of agentic coding workflows. Is accountable for measured adoption against a stated baseline, not announced adoption.

• Sets and enforces the engineering quality bar: code review standard, automated test coverage expectations, static analysis and formatting and build gates in CI.

• Owns release and package discipline across an independently published, floating-version package estate, including the producer-first sequencing required when shared contracts change, and the CI invariants that keep builds reproducible.

• Owns regression prevention: every defect fix ships with a test that fails before the fix and passes after it, and every fix is swept across sibling occurrences rather than applied in one place.

• Owns the Quality Assurance function and the automated test estate, including the end-to-end suite, and is accountable for defect escape rate to production.

• Partners with Architecture on design review, and with Infrastructure Operations on the operability of what ships — health and dependency endpoints, replica and anti-affinity requirements, resource requests and limits, and graceful degradation.

• Mentors and oversees personnel development plans for all technical staff, including Engineering Managers and Tech Leads across Greensboro, NC and Noida, India, and builds a technical leadership bench in Noida capable of owning full product areas.

• Balances senior engineering capacity across the portfolio, ensuring strategic platforms are staffed with the experience they require.

• Provides clear forecasts and technical roadmaps to the executive team and executes against those plans.

• Works within a strongly collaborative environment, negotiates challenges, identifies risks, and provides associated mitigation strategies.

• Provides budget planning, resource allocation and capital spend within the organization's overall business requirements.

• Ability to roll up their sleeves, understand code, and provide guidance to the development organization to solve complex problems — remaining an active, credible technical contributor.

• apexanalytix Global Capability Center, Noida, India.

This role owns how software is built and delivered — quality, throughput, predictability and engineering practice. Architectural standards and design authority sit with the Architect; infrastructure and platform operations with the Global IT Managed Services Leader; product strategy and roadmap with the Product Leader; security policy and compliance attestation with the CISO; and AI and automation delivery with a separate AI & Automation organization. Where AI services are consumed by the product platforms, this role owns the integration contract — interface, versioning, SLA and failure behaviour.

Over the years, we’ve discovered that the most effective and successful associates at apexanalytix are people who have a specific combination of values, skills, and behaviors that we call “The apex Way”. Read more about The apex Way - https://www.apexanalytix.com/careers/

At apexanalytix, we’re lifelong innovators! Since the date of our founding nearly four decades ago we’ve been consistently growing, profitable, and delivering the best procure-to-pay solutions to the world. We’re the perfect balance of established company and start-up. You will find a unique home here.

And you’ll recognize the names of our clients. Most of them are on The Global 2000. They trust us to give them the latest in controls, audit and analytics software every day. Industry analysts consistently rank us as a top supplier management solution, and you’ll be helping build that reputation.

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