**Principal Application Architect** **ADP is hiring a Principal Application Architect** + _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?_ In this role, you will support engineers and build innovative and flexible cloud solutions for automation, execution, and implementation of processes for quick and reliable product delivery to the market across ADP's cloud-based systems for MYADP and Mobile. Leading areas on designing cloud solutions with developments and other architects across the company. No two days are the same. As part of a systems reliability team, you're the first one they call from an operations standpoint to understand why an app is down. In this hands-on role, you'll work side-by-side with the architecture and product development to design and implement CI/CD pipelines and Cloud initiatives. Every day will require you to be agile, adaptable, and fluid. To thrive in this role, you'll need experience creating, executing, or troubleshooting end-to-end automation scripts for the Cloud. You should feel confident migrating data and managing change within an organization. You have come up through the ranks as a full-stack engineer and are passionate about automation. You have experience writing the code and building fully automated, highly elastic, cloud-orchestrated platforms over various IaaS providers like AWS, GCE, and/or Azure, or using on-premise solutions like ICP (IBM Cloud Private). Expert-level skills in Python and Groovy are necessary, and some experience with Java/JVM, the Spring Ecosystem, Service Mesh/Istio, Hashicorp Vault, etc. You should also possess significant Cloud experience (AWS, ECS, EKS, RDS), Containerization (K8S), Orchestration (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Helm Charts), Clustering, CICD tools, etc. Our best engineers excel at collaborating with Application Architects, Developers, Data Scientists, and System Engineers. You'll be accountable for something significant: the uncompromising quality of products that impact people's lives. Like what you see? **Apply now!** **Learn more about ADP at tech.adp.com/careers** **A little about ADP:** We are a global leader in HR technology, offering the latest AI and machine learning-enhanced payroll, tax, HR, benefits, and much more. We believe our people make all the difference in cultivating an inclusive, down-to-earth culture that welcomes ideas, encourages innovation, and values belonging. ADP has a deep commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion as a global Best Places to Work, DiversityInc® Top 50 Company, Best CEO and company for women, LGBTQ+, multicultural talent, and more. Learn more about ADP's commitment on our YouTube channel: **http://adp.careers/DEI\_Videos** **WHAT YOU'LL DO:** + **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. + **Scrum.** 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 will also participate in other agile ceremonies, including scheduled sprint demos, where you will present your work to up to 90 stakeholders. + **Build teams that thrive.** As an experienced leader, you want everyone to shine. You'll start each day by checking in with your engineering team to identify priorities and challenges. You'll find a way to make the team's day go smoother. You are constantly looking for ways to share your knowledge, motivate others and keep everyone engaged and productive. + **Build Products.** You will use your technical expertise to review your team's work and help your people excel in an Agile environment. 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. + **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. + **Experience.** You have 15+ years of experience in relevant skills gained and developed in the same or similar role. **Experience** **.** You have 10+ years of experience in relevant skills gained and developed in the same or similar role. Requirements: **TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:** + You'll have a Bachelor's degree OR equivalent. + 10+ years hands on experience developing and architecting high volume systems + Drive and own software methodologies and practices within the team + Drive architecture, design, and development deliverables within the team + Champion and deliver great user experience Work with close cross-functional alignment with designers, fellow engineers, and the product and business stakeholders. + Stay up-to-date on software technologies to influence decision making on the right technology choices + Expert knowledge of: + Hands on experience developing server side applications using Java programming and Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Integration, etc.) + Deep experience + Windows and Linux server administration + Java, python and object-oriented development skills + Strong Ansible, bash scripting, Cloud Formation and Terraform Skills + CI/CD/Automation + Fluent in CI/CD technologies and test automation + Build tools and dependency management (Gradle, Maven) + Experience with build processes, repository managers and branching concepts. + Understanding of the testing pyramid (unit, functional, integration, system, API testing) and testing approaches TDD, BDD + Conduct rigorous system testing and troubleshooting to optimize the performance of digital solutions. + Strong Design & Coding experience OOPS Concepts, Principles and Design Patterns. + Deep experience with Database technologies mainly RDBS (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL) + Preferred knowledge and experience on one or more of these Database technologies – NoSQL Document DB, DynamoDB + Experience working with AWS cloud technologies and services + Parallel and Distributed Systems + Event Driven Systems + Observability + Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana + Ops Genie Integrations + Public Cloud (AWS preferred) + AWS Services (ECS(Fargate),EKS, EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, App Sync, Lambda, Cloudfront, ALB, NLBs) + Experience with Agile / SCRUM methodology for product development + Comfortable to operate in an agile, dynamic environment + Strong collaboration and communication skills **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 (ADA version: https://youtu.be/IQjUCA8SOoA ) **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. Click https://jobs.adp.com/life-at-adp/ to learn more about ADP’s culture and our full set of values.