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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 4,500 highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 54 countries rely on Aptean to streamline their everyday operations.

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 the role

We're looking for a Lead Engineer/Architect, Development to reinforce the patchOEE and Aptean Food & Beverage SaaS Performance Monitoring Solution in our Sassenheim office. This role is hybrid: occasional international travel: 50% Travel in The Netherlands and/or Belgium, 50% working from home.

Primary Skills:

• Must have 6+ years’ experience of C# and .NET
• Excellent system software architecture experience.
• Must have detailed experience in SQL (T-SQL / CLR).
• Demonstrated end responsibility for larger software architecture & software methodologies.
• Strong client interface and presentation skills.
• Through interpersonal and presentation skills, effectively demonstrate the capabilities of software solutions internally.
• Identify and link functional and technical requirements to deliver an end-to-end solution.

Secondary Skills: 

• Knowledge of Microsoft platform and Azure.
• Knowledge of Agile product development processes.
• Experienced in leading development teams (2-5)

Job Summary:

• Accountable for the proposed solution (architecture, to-be processes) and the realization of this proposed solution.
• Assures the quality of the solution and the related deliverables.
• Monitors the daily progress, potential risks and issues together with the Product Owner, proposes and executes mitigations.
• Leads the Fit/Gap analysis to define the solution design including to-be processes, solution architecture, integration design, migration approach and non-functional (e.g. performance) requirements.
• Prevents and solves escalations from consultants, partners and clients.
• Ensure that the team follows the predefined agile project methodology and uses the predefined tools in an optimal way and intervenes when needed.
• Works in close collaboration with the Product Manager.
• Takes initiative to be informed about innovations in technology, market changes, methodologies, best practices and develops internal improvements/innovations.
• Shares knowledge and coaches Developers towards a higher level.
• Continuously improves our project methodology, tooling and templates.
• Reviews Functional design of given business requirements for technical solution and detailed technical design (TDD).
• Has worked on Upgrade projects.
• Worked on integration.
• Worked on Performance tuning.
• Basics of Azure Dev Ops.
• Excellent understanding of databases and data structures, SQL.
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills.
• Analytical and Problem-solving skills.
• Dutch and English is required.

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.

“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