Job reference #6170_8608988

ADP is seeking a Principal Applications Architect.

We believe people make great companies, not the other way around. Our people make all the difference in delivering innovative HR technologies and solutions that help employees all over the world do their jobs better. The result? We’re building the next generation of ADP technologies.

The Principal Architect will provide leadership, technology design expertise, direction, coordination, and consultation, in the development, integration, launch, scaling, and maintenance of new and existing products and solutions. Promote use of innovative new technology and best practices for BU or Enterprise-wide new product and solution development initiatives. Influence and govern current and strategic architectural blueprints. Promote architectural initiatives that drive revenue and improve efficiency aligned with business strategy. Identifies key application design patterns and standard application frameworks. Guides initiatives to align with the overall application portfolio and core platform blueprint and manages the evolution of the application portfolio. Provides design directives to software developers, including how to construct and integrate software, in order to meet all functional and non-functional requirements. Describes fine-grained components, application programming interfaces and frameworks (development and runtime) of a system based on solution requirements. Selects application development platform technologies. Establishes the strategic direction for application development approaches, including tools, process and frameworks.

Responsibilities will also include:

• Manage the evolution of the application portfolio
• Select application development platform technologies and tools.
• Establish the strategic direction for application development approaches.
• Serves as design authority at a project level by understanding the business goals and technology constraints and designing appropriate solutions that map to the organization’s enterprise architecture. 
• Defines how a solution will be constructed: which existing Solution Building Blocks will be integrated, how they will be integrated and what gaps in capability need to be filled. 
• Leverages the most value from existing investments but commissions new solution building blocks as necessary. 
• Applies globally-agreed upon standards from Foundation strategy whenever possible. Ensures business solutions have an enterprise and strategic perspective but develops locally-applied technology where local perspectives are a better fit for purpose.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in S.T.E.M. field or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of related development experience 
• Experience with Agile
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience with a majority of the following
• Distributed Architecture (Transaction Management, Complex Event Processing, Micro Services)
• Cloud computing services (Amazon AWS)
• Message driven architecture (JMS, SOA, Spring, Kafka)
• Data Integration (batch, real-time, data virtualization, etc.)
• Document-centric data architecture (Mongo DB/NoSQL)
• Workflow (BPM/Custom)

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