Lead Software Engineer - ADP Compliance Solutions

ADP is hiring a Lead Software Engineer.

In this role, as a Lead Software Engineer you will design and deliver software solutions that solve real business problems within ADP’s established enterprise environment. You will partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders and communicate effectively with senior leaders, while staying hands-on across the SDLC with a high bar for quality, security, and reliability.

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What you’ll do

• Solution design: Translate business needs into technical designs that fit ADP’s platforms, data, and operating constraints.
• Build & deliver: Develop, test, and deploy high-quality software and configuration changes across the SDLC.
• Quality & risk: Raise the bar on testing, code quality, security practices, and operational readiness.
• Stakeholder partnership: Collaborate with product, architecture, engineering, security, QA, training, project management, hosting, and procurement to deliver outcomes.
• Technical leadership: Lead projects and/or functional teams through influence, technical direction, and strong execution (this role may be a non-people “functional leadership” position).
• Business immersion: Engage directly with internal and external clients to understand processes, data, and domain context (including payroll processing).
• Results & domain fluency: Operate with a results-oriented mindset; bring knowledge of new and legacy technologies, relevant platforms and environments, and domain business processes, functions, and data to deliver innovative, insightful, and secure solutions.
• Continuous learning: Stay current through self-training and company-supported training opportunities.
• Responsible AI: Embrace AI tools and apply them responsibly within governing frameworks.

Experience you’ll need

• 8+ years of experience in application design and development
• Strong experience with Python, .NET (C# or VB.NET), Microsoft SQL Server, and WCF Web Services
• Hands-on experience with Angular, JavaScript, CSS, unit testing, ETL, data encryption, security, REST & SOAP APIs, Kubernetes, and Git
• Prompt engineeringexperience with tools such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, and Amazon Q
• Strong business analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to interpret internal/external business issues and recommend best practices
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent tasks and business initiatives
• Exceptional communication skills, including comfort interacting with executive leadership
• Direct customer/client interaction experience
• Experience with payroll / payroll processing and tax
• Ability to work independently, with guidance primarily for the most complex situations
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Nice to have

• Microsoft Dynamics CRM experience (5+ years preferred)
• Strong T-SQL programming skills
• Web development frameworks (e.g., Telerik)
• SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
• Reporting/BI tools: Power BI, Tableau, Crystal Reports, Power BI Report Server
• Alteryx
• Automic (UC4) job scheduling experience
• GIS experience
• Databricks
• Diverse IDE experience (VSCode, PyCharm, Amazon Q Developer, Kiro)
• Agentic frameworks (Crew, LangGraph, Autogen, Strands)

Qualifications

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