Principal Architect

**ADP Technology Services, Inc. is hiring a Principal Architect in our Parsippany, NJ 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 what’s next?**

To thrive in this career, you’ll 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. You’ll be curious, persistent, and at times persuasive.

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.

**WHAT YOU’LL 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**. **You’re 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. **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.
- **Continuous Learning. **You will actively collaborate with other associates to share ideas or show what you’ve 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 we’ll rely on you to look for a solution.
- Responsibilities**. **Responsible for working with business leadership and leaders within Data and Analytics Engineering to define and drive the implementation of overarching data governance strategy and architecture that will align organization's Chief Data Office's vision to manage ADP's data. Influence and govern current and future software architectural blueprints and promote architectural initiatives that makes data quality transparent and easy to access. Provide a holistic view of our data to stakeholders, improve efficiency, and support our business strategy. Design and guide software engineers to bring concepts to life using industry standard tools such as Informatica AXON, EDC, IDQ, and Alation. Review software solutions, refine solutions if necessary, and jump in to develop critical areas. Design technical solutions using industry standard tools and work with a team of engineers as they implement the design. Implement Data Quality frameworks, metadata management solutions and data governance solutions. Define best practices and enforce standards for data quality and metadata management**.**

**TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE**:

- **Education and Qualifications/Skills and Competencies. **Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, related Engineering discipline or related field of study plus ten (10) years of related experience required**.**:

- **Work Experience. **Five (5) years of experience must include: Informatica AXON; EDC; IDQ; Collibra; Implementing Data Quality frameworks, metadata management solution and data governance solutions; AWS, big data technologies, python and databases; Overseeing projects and programs with a focus on delivery; Data management; Data Governance strategy; Presentation Skills; Software Design and Architecture; Project/Program Management; Stakeholder Management**.**

**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 find the best solution.
- **Deliver at an 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 th