Principal Architect

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

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.

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.

Base Salary and Benefits

Base salary offers for this position may vary based on factors such as location, skills, and relevant experience. Some positions may include additional compensation in the form of bonus, equity or commissions. The compensation for this role is USD $159,222.00 - USD $273,300.00 / Year.

We offer the following benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Matched Retirement Savings, Wellness Program, Short‑and Long‑Term Disability, Charitable Contribution Match, Holidays, Personal Days & Vacation, Paid Volunteer Time Off, and more.

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.