ADP is hiring a Chief Architect, Database

　　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?

　　Every day, you will promote architectural initiatives that drive revenue and improve efficiency aligned with business strategy. Each day, you will start with a scrum and identify priorities within the current sprint or discuss a new project. Then you'll create designs to guide the developers while they code what you design. If something is particularly critical, you may have to roll up your sleeves and code. As the team lead, you'll communicate and collaborate with your team and cross-functionally, acting as the technical reference.

　　To thrive in this role, you have twenty-plus years of experience in architecture, design and maintenance of databases. Experience working with large-scale distributed services-oriented systems will be essential to your success. You'll need versatile knowledge of SQL, coding languages, including front-end, scripting, and back-ends like Java, .net, Angular, JS frameworks, or others. Your duties include:

　　Leadership and Team Management:

　　Lead and inspire the database group, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, ownership, and accountability.

　　Strategically elevating standards through synergistic hires, where experts complement each other, fostering a culture of mutual inspiration and continuous growth.

　　Identify and prioritize database reliability risks. Plan and execute remediation.

　　Drive operational efficiencies within the database team.

　　Database lead technical decision maker during critical incidents. Minimizes critical incidents.

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　　WHAT YOU'LL DO:

　　Here's what you can expect on a typical day:

　　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.

　　You'll start every day with a scrum, working together to understand responsibilities, identify issues, and communicate design and coding priorities.

　　The primary objective of this role is to provide strategic leadership to a cross-functional team of database experts, ensuring continuous improvement in the availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of database systems for RUN and ancillary applications. This position uniquely bridges the gap between development and operations/engineering branches, fostering collaboration and coordination for optimal database reliability. This position could be an individual contributor role with dotted line reporting or may have people leadership responsibility of a small team.

　　Inevitable challenges will arise, and we'll rely on you to look for a solution. You love a challenge and revel in the opportunity of finding one.

　　Learning and Teaching. You're the technical expert on the team, so when issues arise, you'll be the one developing a fix. When you present a design, you are open to feedback from your engineer team since you believe collaboration helps strengthen your ideas, especially if someone thought of something you hadn't considered. After all, we all have the same goal, develop the best solutions we can for our clients.

　　Variety of work. There is no typical day. Some days you will dedicate to design or mentoring team members, while others you will spend on projects for quality assurance, security, UX, or any number of other functions.

　　You have 20+ years of experience in relevant skills gained and developed in the same or similar role.

　　TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:

　　You'll have a Bachelor's degree OR equivalent.

　　Prior experience that would give you extra comfort in the role includes:

　　Proficiency in managing SQL Server databases

　　Proficiency in Java/JEE technologies, jQuery, JSON, Angular, Mulesoft, Kafka

　　RDBMS and NoSQL databases such as Mongo or DynamoDB

　　Hands-on experience with Springboot and Spring integrations

　　GIT, Jenkins, Ansible, Public Cloud (AWS or Azure)

　　This role will have the following Direct or Indirect Reports:

　　Application Database Administrators (App DBA):

　　Responsibilities include optimizing database performance for the application.

　　Build Team Database Administrators (Build Team DBA):

　　Responsible for the development of database build and deployment scripts.

　　SQL Developers:

　　Responsible for developing, optimizing, and screening SQL stored procedures and queries.

　　SQL Engineer ( scripting) , MongoDB Engineer:

　　Collaborative support for specialized database technologies.

　　Ops Database Administrators (Ops DBA):

　　Overseeing daily operational responsibilities: backups, routine maintenance tasks, production release planning and execution. Ops DBAs will also participate in the gathering and democratization of production database operational telemetry for use by the larger database team.

　　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!

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　　Base salary offers for this position may vary based on factors such as location, skills, and relevant experience. Some positions may include additional compensation in the form of bonus, equity or commissions. We offer the following benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Matched Retirement Savings, Wellness Program, Short-and Long-Term Disability, Charitable Contribution Match, Holidays, Personal Days & Vacation, Paid Volunteer Time Off, and more. The compensation for this role is $119,900.00 - $321,390.00 / Year

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