Lead Technology Architect

ADP is hiring a Lead Architect.

• Are you empathetic to client needs and inspired by transformation and impacting the lives of millions of people every day?
• Are you looking tojoin a dynamic, inclusiveteam environmentwith a culture of collaboration and belonging?

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

In this role, you will work alongside ADP product owners to understand their challenges in creating, upgrading, or augmenting our products. Then, you'll design technical solutions and guide a team of developers as they implement your design.

Every day, you will promote architectural initiatives that drive revenue and improve efficiency aligned with business strategy. Each day, you will start with a scrum and identify priorities within the current sprint or discuss a new project. Then you'll create designs to guide the developers while they code what you design. If something is particularly critical, you may have to roll up your sleeves and code. As the team lead, you'll communicate and collaborate with your team and cross-functionally, acting as the technical reference.

To thrive in this role, you have ten-plus years of experience in architecture, design, and building large-scale distributed services-oriented systems will be essential to your success. You'll need versatile knowledge of coding languages, including front-end, scripting, and back-ends like Node, Javascript, React, JS frameworks, or others. Our best developers are creative problem solvers who love a challenge. If you get stuck, you find a workaround and keep going. You never give up. This role requires you to have clear, compelling, and influential communication skills to succeed. You will constantly mentor developers and collaborate with peer architects on other teams. You must be adept at teaching, leading, and influencing. As part of our team, you will influence product success and help shape our industry.

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WHAT YOU'LL DO:

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

• Blueprints and Strategy: You will influence and govern current and future architectural blueprints and promote architectural initiatives that generate revenue, improve efficiency, and support our business strategy. You will ensure that what we do solves both enterprise and local needs.
• Scrums: You'll start every day with a scrum, working together to understand responsibilities, identify issues, and communicate design and coding priorities.
• Coding: Your chief role is to design, but coding is often required. Once you create your design, you will guide developers to bring it to life using tools like Node JS, React, Mongo, Python and AWS Lambda, along with other cloud-native technologies like ECS/EKS, Docker, and Kubernetes. You will review their code, refine it if necessary, and jump in and code critical areas yourself.
• Challenges: Inevitable challenges will arise, and we'll rely on you to look for a solution. You love a challenge and revel in the opportunity of finding one.
• Learning and Teaching: You're the technical expert on the team, so when issues arise, you'll be the one developing a fix. When you present a design, you are open to feedback from your engineer team since you believe collaboration helps strengthen your ideas, especially if someone thought of something you hadn't considered. After all, we all have the same goal, develop the best solutions we can for our clients.
• Variety of work: There is no typical day. Some days you will dedicate to design or mentoring team members, while others you will spend on projects for quality assurance, security, UX, or any number of other functions.
• Experience: You have strong experience in relevant skills gained and developed in the same or similar role.

TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:

• You'll have a Bachelor's degree OR equivalent.
• Strong communication skills in English, both written and verbal
• Prior experience that would give you extra comfort in the role includes:
  • Proficiency in Node/JS technologies, React, JSON, RabbitMQ
  • Familiarity and hands-on experience with CI/CD workflows, pipeline automation, Git, and tools like Jenkins
  • RDBMS and NoSQL databases such as Mongo
  • Experience withREST APIs,Kubernetes, event-driven architecture, andmicroservices
  • Hands-on experience on designing and building systems on cloud, using AWS Lambda or similar, along with other cloud-native technologies likeECS/EKS,Docker, andKubernetes
    

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE FOR US

• You've made this engine stable, fast, and ready for what's next.
• You've made improvements that directly impact how fast and confidently we can ship.
• You've become the go-to person for deep technical questions and forward-looking planning.
• You've contributed to architecture and design decisions, bringing clarity and forward momentum to the team.
• You're a trusted contributor — someone others turn to for technical input, context, and delivery confidence.

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