Lead JDE Developer

Alamo Group is hiring a Lead JDE Developer to support, enhance, and modernize our enterprise ERP and business systems environment with a strong focus on JD Edwards, manufacturing operations, and connected business platforms. In this role, you will partner with Enterprise Architecture, business stakeholders, and delivery teams to translate operational needs into scalable solutions that improve planning, execution, customer enablement, and decision-making across the organization.

You will play a key role in developing and supporting practical capabilities across ERP, CRM, e-commerce, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, finance, reporting, dealer/customer-facing systems, inventory, procurement, and MRP-related processes. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who understands JD Edwards development and the broader business systems landscape that supports a diversified equipment manufacturer.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of JD Edwards enhancements, applications, reports, interfaces, and integrations.

• Translate business requirements across ERP, CRM, e-commerce, manufacturing, logistics, finance, reporting, and dealer/customer-facing systems into clear solution designs, development estimates, and maintainable deliverables.

• Support manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, inventory, finance, and MRP-related business processes within an ERP environment.

• Develop and maintain JDE objects and customizations using appropriate JD Edwards development tools and standards.

• Create and support integrations between ERP and connected enterprise systems using APIs, web services, middleware, EDI, ETL, reporting pipelines, and other approved integration patterns.

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, business analysts, functional owners, application teams, infrastructure, cybersecurity, vendors, and developers to simplify, standardize, integrate, and improve business systems that support manufacturing and operational processes.

• Support delivery teams through solution design, design reviews, implementation planning, testing, cutover readiness, deployment, production support, and post-implementation stabilization.

• Participate in architecture governance, platform rationalization, standards development, and portfolio planning with a focus on practical execution and supportable solutions.

• Create clear technical and architecture documentation, including design specifications, system context diagrams, data flows, interface maps, process views, configuration notes, and support procedures.

• Identify opportunities to reduce complexity, improve data visibility, strengthen integrations, automate manual work, and improve ERP and business systems performance across operating companies.

What You Bring

• Proven experience developing, enhancing, and supporting JD Edwards in a manufacturing, distribution, or industrial environment.

• Strong ERP background with working knowledge of manufacturing operations, inventory management, procurement, supply chain, finance, CRM, e-commerce, and MRP concepts.

• Hands-on experience with JD Edwards development, configuration, reporting, integration, and related development tools strongly preferred.

• Familiarity with systems such as JD Edwards, Microsoft Azure, Power BI, Salesforce, GenAlpha, RFSmart, SolidWorks, SolidWorks PDM, Autodesk Inventor, Siemens Solid Edge, EPM/Vena, SAP Concur, Vertex, SnapPay, HighRadius, ReportsNow, supplier portals, dealer portals, or related manufacturing and business platforms.

• Experience creating technical specifications, unit test plans, deployment documentation, support documentation, interface documentation, and practical solution designs for ERP and business systems changes.

• Working knowledge of relational databases, SQL, data structures, business views, batch jobs, reporting, cloud, integration, and ERP integration patterns.

• Familiarity with APIs, web services, EDI, ETL, middleware, reporting pipelines, or other enterprise integration technologies.

• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across application, data, process, integration, reporting, and user-experience layers.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with business users, technical teams, plant teams, vendors, and leadership.

• Ability to manage priorities, support production needs, and contribute to projects in a structured change-management environment.

What Sets You Apart

• Experience serving as a technical lead or senior developer for JD Edwards projects, upgrades, retrofits, managed services, production support, or business systems improvement initiatives.

• Practical understanding of MRP, production scheduling, shop-floor execution, inventory optimization, purchasing, work orders, bills of material, routings, standard costing, quality, warranty, and aftermarket parts processes.

• Experience supporting ERP standardization, process improvement, application rationalization, documentation discipline, and governance in a multi-site manufacturing organization.

• Ability to think like an architect while still producing practical designs that development, application, and support teams can build, deploy, and maintain.

• Comfort working across business process discussions, application architecture, integration patterns, data flows, reporting needs, operational support considerations, and delivery constraints.

• Interest in growing beyond traditional JDE development into broader ERP platforms, CRM, e-commerce, integration, data, analytics, automation, and future enterprise technology capabilities.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field required; equivalent experience may be considered.

• 7+ years of ERP development, application support, business systems delivery, solution design, or related experience, including significant hands-on experience with JD Edwards.

• Manufacturing, distribution, supply chain, inventory, procurement, finance, CRM, e-commerce, reporting, or MRP experience strongly preferred.

Work Environment

• Primarily office-based in New Braunfels, TX.

• Occasional time in manufacturing environments.

• Up to 10% travel.

Alamo Group is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, national origin, color, religion, age, genetics, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability or veteran status. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing (where permitted by law).