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ADP is hiring a Director, Application Development

+ _Are you empathetic to client needs and inspired by transformation and impacting the lives of millions of people every day?_

+ _Are you an inspiring leader who people have followed and worked for over and over again?_

+ _Are you looking to join a dynamic, inclusive team environment with a culture of collaboration and belonging?_

+ _Are you results driven with passion for learning & applying emerging technologies like_ **_AI, ML, Cloud_** _to drive high customer ROI?_

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

**In this role, you will work in an Agile development environment to bring the designs and ideas to life for new or improved products and AI Powered data driven web applications.** This work will support a mix of internal and external clients. You will be working on current and upcoming projects that connect design, engineering, product development, and implementation to understand how those pieces impact infrastructure. You'll share your operational and process maturity with a growing team while building products for large enterprises to enable their workforce.

No two days are the same as you work with your team, business leaders, and project management to understand our next wave of work. **To thrive in this role, you'll need to be a cloud-native with a solid understanding of technologies, including Data Science, AI, ML, APIs, distributed systems design, operational scaling and availability, and application integrations. Enterprise Java with open source tools, Spring Boot, Python And Java 8 or later (preferred languages), and AWS are critical.** You have experience working full stack with front-end, scripting, and back-end experience. You're a passionate leader focused on engagement as well as results, and you're not afraid to roll your sleeves up and dive into the code when necessary. 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.

Like what you see? **Apply now!**

Learn more about ADP at tech.adp.com/careers

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

Here's what you can expect on a typical day:

+ **People Development**

+ Your 7 or more years of inspiring team leadership have delivered amazing results, and you pride yourself on developing the people who work for you, as well as providing an inclusive team environment where they all can thrive. If asked, they would follow you anywhere and enthusiastically credit you with helping to grow their careers.

+ You will build a culture of **servant leadership** , ownership with focus on high performing teams with motivated individuals.

+ Coach & mentor junior, mid level developers, QA, BA to achieve their aspirations and grow in skills & knowledge.

+ You will be managing 2 or more teams spread across multiple time zones, building applications powered by AI, ML, Cloud.

+ **Delivery Ownership**

+ You'll start each day with a scrum, working in multiple teams to understand responsibilities, identify issues, and communicate coding priorities while choosing user stories to complete. You must know **Lean** software development, **Agile** Scrum well.

+ You'll work with business leadership and project management to understand priorities and align capacity plan accordingly.

+ You will own & drive **full life cycle of a feature** development, from requirements, Design & Architecture, Estimation & Planning, Development, QA, UAT, Prod Deployment, Pilot, GA and support & maintenance.

+ Working in two-week sprints, you must keep up with timelines and delivery on commitments, removing impediments, adhering to ADP Architecture, design and coding standards, hands-on coding & code reviews, planning & executing releases.

+ **Process Improvement**

+ You will apply your deep expertise and past experience in Lean Agile, Software Engineering best practices, data analytics to continuously monitor and make changes to improve process improve Speed, Quality, Cost, Predictability, Maintainability, ROI.

+ **Technical Leadership**

+ An eagerness to learn will help you keep up with ever-changing technologies and maintain the ability to create the best tools for our clients. You are comfortable and thrive in an autonomous role since that will be essential for your success.

+ You will apply technical acumen, usability, product & domain knowledge to solve complex problems with R&D, hands-on POCs.

+ When needed, you will roll-up your sleeves , dig into code to debug & troubleshoot issues and hand hold developers.

+ **Collaboration & Executive Communication**

+ You will present and defend your team's approach to leadership. There is no typical day as you partner and work with people across the development organization to turn ideas into reality.

+ Partner with internal & external stakeholders (SRE, IT, Shared, Product, CDO, Business etc.) to foster healthy collaboration.

+ You will send reports, present and demo solutions to senior leaders, executives and clients.

TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:

+ **Required**

+ You'll have a Bachelor's degree OR equivalent.

+ **You have 10+ years of experience in relevant skills gained and developed in the same or similar role.**

+ **Experience in building enterprise level distributed applications in AWS Cloud, Serverless Architecture, Microservices, Web, API, Java or Python, React or Angular, Jenkins, CICD, Git, Kafka, Docker, Redis, REST/JSON, and SQL/Oracle/Postgres/Dynamo DB**

+ Proven experience in building/transforming/scaling high performance teams with globally distributed resources

+ Expert level understanding of Agile, Scrum, OBT CICD, DevOps, Test Automation, SRE, Usability, Project Management, Security, Best software engineering practices, code quality, design and architecture Patterns and Principles.

+ Curious mind with passion for continuous learning with strong bias for action to delivery results with speed, quality in fast faced agile environment with aggressive timelines.

+ Executive level communication and presentation skills with the proven ability to build healthy relationships & influence key strategic decisions.

+ Preferred but Not Required

+ Experience in HCM Domain (Benefits, HR, Payroll, Time, Talent, Compliance etc.)

+ Knowledge and experience in Data Engineering, Data Science, AI, ML, LLM and Agentic AI applications

+ Tools, LLMs and frameworks like GPT, VSCode, CoPilot, LangChain, Data Bricks, SageMaker, AWS Bedrock, Spring Boot

+ Document Digitization, OCR, Test Automation , Splunk, Jira, Atlassian, Bitbucket, Dynatrace, MLOps

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.

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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