Sr Director of Application Development

ADP is hiring a Sr Director of Application Development - NextGen HCM

At NextGen HCM, we're defining the future of work. Our product is built on amazing open source technologies, consisting of an ecosystem of more than a hundred containerized micro-services fully deployed in cloud. As a Sr Director of Application development, you'll be a results-focused leader who's comfortable taking on overall responsibility for one of our key domains.

As an energetic leader, you'll take ownership of your team's roadmap, help motivate, focus our organization to deliver strong outcomes and manage expectations with stakeholders. Your technical background and domain knowledge will enable you to appreciate the implications of key architectural, investment, and prioritization decisions. If you're passionate about building high performing teams and enabling continuous developer productivity improvements, you could be the perfect addition to our team.

A little about ADP

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Key Responsibilities:

• Define Architectural Vision and Strategy: Develop and communicate a clear architectural vision and strategy for NextGen HCM, ensuring alignment with ADP's overall business objectives and technology goals.
• Lead Architectural Governance: Establish and enforce architectural standards, guidelines, and best practices, conducting architectural reviews and providing guidance to ensure compliance with standards.
• Oversee Product Architecture: Lead the design and architecture of NextGen HCM products, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and secure.
• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with engineering, product management, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into architectural solutions.
• Drive Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies, identifying opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement within NextGen HCM.
• Ensure Operational Excellence: Implement robust processes for monitoring, managing, and optimizing the performance of NextGen HCM products.
• Mentor and Lead Technical Teams: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to architects and engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning within the team.
• Champion Technical Debt Reduction: Identify and prioritize areas of technical debt within NextGen HCM, developing and executing plans to address technical debt and improve system health.
• Promote a Culture of Security: Ensure that security is a key consideration in all architectural decisions, implementing best practices for authentication, identity management, and data protection.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or closely related field
• Proven Experience: 8+ years of experience in product-focused technology organizations, with 3+ years of experience in HCM product development.
• Technical Expertise: Strong background in designing and architecting complex, scalable systems, with expertise in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and modern architectural patterns.
• Leadership Skills: Strong leadership and mentorship abilities, with experience leading technical teams and driving innovation.
• Strategic Vision: Ability to develop and communicate a clear architectural vision and strategy, with strong problem-solving skills and a strategic mindset.
• Experience building distributed development teams and acting as point of contact for stakeholders.
• 4+ years of experience in leadership and managerial capacities with cross-disciplinary teams including product, software engineering, infrastructure, security, automated testing, and build tooling
• 2+ years of experience with cloud providers
• Track record of evolving engineering team capabilities with recognized improvements
• Full-stack software development knowledge - including modern technology stacks, public cloud services, container orchestration and scheduling frameworks, distributed databases, and UI frameworks
• Maintain hands-on interest in current technology trends

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a role managing multiple reporting levels
• Knowledge of low-code development platforms
• Knowledge and interest in full-stack JavaScript frameworks, including Node.j and ReactJS
• Background in microservices architecture and container orchestration and scheduling frameworks (Kubernetes)
• Experience with AWS services including but not limited to Lambda, RDS, S3, EC2, SageMaker, OpenSearch, Kinesis, SQS, DynamoDB

YOU'LL LOVE WORKING HERE BECAUSE YOU CAN:

• Have courageous team collaboration. Courage comes from how associates are willing to have difficult conversations, speak up, be an owner, and challenge one another's ideas to net out the best solution.
• Deliver at epic scale. We deliver real user outcomes using strong judgment and good instincts. We're obsessed with the art of achieving simplicity with a focus on client happiness and productivity.
• Be surrounded by curious learners. We align ourselves with other smart people in an environment where we grow and elevate one another to the next level. We encourage our associates to listen, stay agile, and learn from mistakes.
• Act like an owner & doer. Mission-driven and committed to leading change, you will be encouraged to take on any challenge and solve complex problems. No tasks are beneath or too great for us. We are hands-on and willing to master our craft.
• Give back to others. Always do the right thing for our clients and our community and humbly give back to the community where we live and work. Support our associates in times of need through ADP's Philanthropic Foundation.
• Join a company committed to equality and equity. Our goal is to impact lasting change through our actions.

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