Senior Technical Manager - Application Development

ADP is hiring a Senior Manager, Software 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? 

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 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 APIs, distributed systems design, operational scaling and availability, and application integrations. Java and enterprise Java with open source tools, Java 8 or later (preferred language), and AWS are critical. You have experience working full stack with front-end, scripting, and back-end experience. Our best developers are enthusiastic creators who stay current on new codes. Like our best developers, you are an enthusiastic creator eager to learn. You strive to learn new technologies and find ways to incorporate what you learn into building your products.

 

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:

• You'll start each day with a scrum, working in a team to understand responsibilities, identify issues, and communicate coding priorities while choosing user stories to complete. You must know Agile well.
• Your seven or more years of 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.
• Working in two-week sprints, you must keep up with timelines and coding standards. You'll be looking ahead to the next coding criteria to build technically sound and functional tools.
• Continuous Learning. 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'll work with business leadership and project management to understand priorities and create automation accordingly.
• 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.
• You have 10+ years of 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.
• Prior experience in these technologies is also strongly recommended:
  • Basic knowledge of microservices stack—Java / J2EE, Docker, Redis, REST/JSON, SQL/Oracle/Postgres and Cloud (AWS or Azure)
  • Basic knowledge of Front-end development – JavaScript / TypeScript, CSS, Angular or React, Web Components, Graph QL, Building Responsive UI, Unit Testing and End to End testing frameworks.
  • DevOps and automated change management through Jenkins, Ansible, or similar technologies

 

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