Senior Lead Architect

  • ADP
  • Alpharetta, Georgia
  • Full Time

ADP Technology Services, Inc. is hiring a Senior Lead Architect in our Alpharetta, Georgia location.

  • Are you empathetic to client needs and inspired by transformation and impacting the lives of millions of people every day?
  • 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 whats next?

To thrive in this career, youll need to be enthusiastic, eager to learn, and take on stretch assignments. You strive to learn new technologies and find ways to incorporate what you learn into building your results. Youll be curious, persistent, and at times persuasive.

As part of our team, youll find exciting challenges, get opportunities to grow your career, and develop solid friendships as we design whats next for ADP and the industry. Pace should not scare you. We still find time for a healthy dose of fun.

WHAT YOULL DO:

  • Build Teams that thrive. As an experienced leader, you want everyone to shine. You are constantly looking for ways to share your knowledge, motivate others, and keep everyone engaged and productive.
  • Learning . Youre always learning new technologies and processes with tools and other training courses, conferences ADP offers, and operating with a learn as you go approach with a willingness to figure out new ways of doing things.
  • Create Results. Youre 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, its as polished as you could make it.
  • Continuous Learning. You will actively collaborate with other associates to share ideas or show what youve learned. You are eager to learn, keep up with ever-changing technologies, and maintain the ability to create the best tools for our clients.
  • 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.
  • Challenges . Inevitable challenges will arise, and well rely on you to look for a solution.
  • Responsibilities . Responsible for developing, improving, and maintaining software application build, while deploying pipelines and resilient, scalable, and elastic runtime environments. Develop, improve, and support cloud instance and integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) while also architecting and building continuously integrated and continuously deployed software releases by using pipelines. Standardize platform services/microservices into pipelines and integrate test suites into build pipelines. Create infrastructure as code and oversee deployment templates and their releases. Develop and extend build libraries while working with architecture, development, product management, and system engineering teams on broader DevOps initiatives. Prepare and present DevOps project solutions and communicate risks and status and offer mitigation strategies to roadblocks to ensure commitment dates are met across applications and teams. Provide valuable insights and ensure that all products are released to production without adverse effect on clients while maintaining the technical integrity of applications. Ensure release implementations are approved and that only correct, authorized, and tested code versions are installed in production environments. Troubleshoot and resolve failures to production code promotions. Play a critical role in securing ADPs success by ensuring development operations are fully optimized to meet ADP and client needs. Spanning multiple disciplines, including application development, infrastructure engineering and operations monitoring, configuration management, and release management.

TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:

  • Education and Qualifications/Skills and Competencies. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related field of study plus five (5) years of related experience required. The company will also accept a Master's degree and two (2) years of related experience.
  • Work Experience. Two (2) years of experience must include: Release Management; Large commercial application delivery; Application build & deploy pipelines; Docker and Kubernetes; Cloud Services AWS; Java, JavaScript, C#, Groovy, Python OR Bash (Shell Scripting); Puppet, GitHub, Bitbucket, Nexus, and Cloudbees; Splunk and Google Analytics; Selenium; Oracle and Mongo; and Linux, Unix, and Windows operating systems.

YOULL 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 anothers ideas to find the best solution.
  • Deliver at an epic scale. We deliver real user outcomes using strong judgment and good instincts. Were 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 ADPs Philanthropic Foundation.
  • Join a company committed to equality and equity. Our goal is to impact lasting change through our actions.

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 ADPs commitment on our YouTube channel:

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A little about ADP: We are a comprehensive global provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions that unite HR, payroll, talent, time, tax and benefits administration and a leader in business outsourcing services, analytics, and compliance expertise. We believe our people make all the difference in cultivating a down-to-earth culture that embraces our core values, welcomes ideas, encourages innovation, and values belonging. We've received recognition for our work by many esteemed organizations, learn more at ADP Awards and Recognition .

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 ADPs 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 to learn more about ADPs culture and our full set of values.

Job ID: 512917359
Originally Posted on: 3/9/2026

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