Principal Architect

ADP Technology Services, Inc. is hiring a Principal Architect in our Roseland, New Jersey location.

• Are you empathetic to client needs and inspired by transformation and impacting the lives of millions of people every day?
• Are you looking to join a dynamic, inclusive team environment with a culture of collaboration and belonging?

Well, this may be the role for you!  Ready to design what’s next?

To thrive in this career, you’ll need to be enthusiastic, eager to learn, and take on stretch assignments.  You strive to learn new technologies and find ways to incorporate what you learn into building your results.  You’ll be curious, persistent, and at times persuasive.

As part of our team, you’ll find exciting challenges, get opportunities to grow your career, and develop solid friendships as we design what’s next for ADP and the industry.  Pace should not scare you. We still find time for a healthy dose of fun.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:                                                                        

• Build Teams that thrive. As an experienced leader, you want everyone to shine. You are constantly looking for ways to share your knowledge, motivate others, and keep everyone engaged and productive.
• Learning. You’re always learning new technologies and processes with tools and other training courses, conferences ADP offers, and operating with a “learn as you go” approach with a willingness to figure out new ways of doing things.
• Create Results. You’re proactive and hands-on.  When you see a potential issue, you never leave things hanging and unfinished. When you and your team deliver a finished product, it’s as polished as you could make it.
• Continuous Learning. You will actively collaborate with other associates to share ideas or show what you’ve learned.  You are eager to learn, keep up with ever-changing technologies, and maintain the ability to create the best tools for our clients.
• Variety of work. There is no typical day.  You could be checking in with a team in India one minute, meeting with leadership to review initiatives for the coming quarter later and tomorrow handling a few ad hoc requests from your peers in other departments.
• Influence and inspire confidence. You are comfortable presenting to senior leaders, product owners, and peers with a compelling voice that you demonstrate through executive presence, leading change, and creating clear executive-level communications on milestone achievements.
• Challenges. Inevitable challenges will arise, and we’ll rely on you to look for a solution.
• Responsibilities. Responsible for developing strategies and roadmaps to ensure optimal performance and productivity for ADP Associates. Develop cloud architectures and designs that incorporate high availability, automation, operations supportability and scalability to a high volume, rapidly growing world class digital business. Draw upon understanding of architecture, features, and integration capabilities of the infrastructure technology domain to develop cloud architectures and designs that incorporate high availability, automation, operations supportability, and scalability. Promote the use of innovative new technology and best practices for business units or enterprise-wide new product and solution development initiatives. Promote architectural initiatives that drive revenue and improve efficiency aligned with business strategy. Utilize Openstack advanced designs, Infrastructure as Code, and Cloud design and migration to govern current and strategic architectural blueprints, and establishing infrastructure technology architectures, standards, test plans, design templates and governance. Establish infrastructure technology architectures, standards, test plans, design templates and governance. Provide technology analysis and recommendation and business case development for client requests requiring new or enhanced products / services to ensure development of efficient systems in alignment with ADP strategic direction.

TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:

• Education and Qualifications/Skills and Competencies. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related field of study plus seven (7) years of related experience required.

Telecommuting permitted.

• Work Experience. Four (4) years of experience must include: Infrastructure Architecture experience across network, compute (physical/VMware), database and storage; Openstack advanced designs; Infrastructure as Code or software defined infrastructure solutions; Cloud designs that focus on resiliency, high availability and security; Cloud migration strategies; Cloud computing; Virtualization; Linux System Administration foundation; Kubernetes foundation; Cloud automation; Facilitate cross-functional teaming, and; Coordinating and solicit input from other IT Disciplines when developing solutions, roadmaps and vision.

Experience must also include: VMware to Openstack migrations; AWS cloud services.

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 find the best solution.
• Deliver at an 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.

Benefits listed at: jobs.adp.com/en/life-adp

A little about ADP:  We are a global leader in HR technology, offering the latest AI and machine learning-enhanced payroll, tax, HR, benefits, and much more. We believe our people make all the difference in cultivating an inclusive, down-to-earth culture that welcomes ideas, encourages innovation, and values belonging.  ADP has a deep commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion as a global Best Places to Work, DiversityInc ® Top 50 Company, Best CEO and company for women, LGBTQ+, multicultural talent, and more. Learn more about ADP’s commitment on our YouTube channel: http://adp.careers/DEI_Videos

What are you waiting for?  Apply today!
Find out why people come to ADP and why they stay: https://youtu.be/ODb8lxBrxrY
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For more information please visit: jobs.adp.com

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A little about ADP: We are a comprehensive global provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions that unite HR, payroll, talent, time, tax and benefits administration and a leader in business outsourcing services, analytics, and compliance expertise. We believe our people make all the difference in cultivating a down-to-earth culture that embraces our core values, welcomes ideas, encourages innovation, and values belonging. We’ve received recognition for our work by many esteemed organizations, learn more at ADP Awards and Recognition.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Equal Employment Opportunity at ADP: ADP is committed to an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace, and is further committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristic including: race, color, genetic information, creed, national origin, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lawful alien status, ancestry, age, marital status, protected veteran status or disability. Hiring decisions are based upon ADP’s operating needs, and applicant merit including, but not limited to, qualifications, experience, ability, availability, cooperation, and job performance.

Ethics at ADP: ADP has a long, proud history of conducting business with the highest ethical standards and full compliance with all applicable laws. We also expect our people to uphold our values with the highest level of integrity and behave in a manner that fosters an honest and respectful workplace. Click https://jobs.adp.com/life-at-adp/ to learn more about ADP’s culture and our full set of values.