Paylocity is a cloud-based software company that creates customized HR solutions for small to mid-sized organizations. Our workplace enhances communication and enables employees to connect, collaborate, and create from anywhere. Our award-winning culture ensures everyone has a voice and feels truly welcome. Join Paylocity as we shape the future of technology and the workplace!

　　We give our employees what they need to succeed, including great benefits and perks! We offer medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and a 401(k) match, as well as perks that support you, your family, and your finances. And if it’s career development you desire, we provide that, too! At Paylocity, people matter most and have always been at the heart of our business.

　　Help Paylocity enhance communication and enable employees to connect, collaborate, and create from anywhere with a position in Product & Technology!

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　　Position Overview

　　The Senior Director of Engineering, Platform is a critical role in our Engineering organization. We are unique and afford leaders the opportunity to lead in an integrated environment, working closely with Product Management on the product vision, Design for discovery and user experience, as well as Engineering for delivery and implementation.

　　This position requires a strategic technical leader committed to finding and delivering against our internal application teams and our customer’s unmet needs across a wide variety of core services powering our Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions. This role will enable a culture of innovation and ownership across all of Engineering – ensuring the teams are entrepreneurial and self-sufficient while still focused on a shared vision.

　　Who you are:

　　A highly technical and creative thinker with the ability to design a vision for core capabilities and an integrations marketplace centered on customer's unmet needs.

　　An influential leader who rallies multiple product teams around the vision and creates an atmosphere where teams are empowered to deliver.

　　Collaborative, innovative, and humble.

　　Determined and willing to experiment, embracing constant feedback loops.

　　A model for exhibiting grit and the entrepreneurial spirit.

　　A leader who focuses on talent development by creating enabling and inclusive environments and identifying, coaching, and cultivating high potentials.

　　Always curious about current market and technology trends, competitive landscape, and influences product strategy accordingly.

　　A superior communicator with an affinity for change management.

　　Steadfast in your desire for production stability.

　　Required Experience:

　　Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.

　　12+ years of total experience with 5+ years of that leading teams larger than 50 people.

　　Proven leader with a technology organization and demonstrable experience as a people manager.

　　Experience building, deploying, supporting and scaling SaaS based applications.

　　Ability to lead, mentor, and grow large high performing teams to meet business objectives and quality standards.

　　Possess a blend of business to have a big-picture vision as well as the drive and attention to detail that transforms strategy into action.

　　A proven track record of defining business goals and then delivering on those goals to drive profitable growth.

　　Exceptional decision-making, prioritization, and collaboration skills.

　　Mastery in applying & coaching technology patterns, frameworks, principles, best practices, and skills across the organization, with a bias for customer & business value.

　　Demonstrated ability in integration, delivery, 24x7 operations, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

　　Hands-on knowledge of agile engineering practices and prevalent accelerating technologies, including mobile, big data, cloud, machine learning, and open sourcing.

　　Extensive AWS experience is required.

　　Detail-oriented, organized, self-sufficient, and able to find creative solutions at all levels of the business, product, platform, and organization.

　　Solid interpersonal and communication, and collaboration skills with proven ability to work across the organization with a one-team mindset.

　　Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer. Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. At Paylocity, we believe diversity makes us better.

　　We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We actively cultivate these differences through our employee resource groups (ERGs), employee experiences, perspectives, talents, and approaches to drive innovation in the software and services we provide our customers.

　　We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request reasonable accommodation in the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected] .

　　This role can be performed from any office in the US. The pay range for this position is $204 - $255K /yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual bonus and restricted stock unit grant based on individual performance in addition to a full range of benefits outlined here. This information is provided per the relevant state and local pay transparency laws for the location in which this position will be performed. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via www.paylocity.com/careers.