Engineering Manager — AI-Driven Payroll & Cloud Platforms

Paychex; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 117,345 - 184,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

401(k) + employer match

Tuition reimbursement

Adoption assistance

Wellness programs

Job summary

Paychex is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our Code Advanced Payroll development teams, overseeing cross-platform integrations on scalable cloud infrastructure and driving AI-powered applications. This role blends reliability for enterprise systems with the speed of building new solutions, mentoring engineers, and setting bold technical direction to impact hundreds of thousands of businesses.

You will collaborate with product owners, manage personnel planning, and guide multiple agile

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer related discipline - Preferred
• 7 years of experience in Related field.
• 4 years of experience in supervisory, management, project leadership, or project management.
• Mentorship - Required
• Planning -Required
• Coaching - Required
• Collaboration - Required
• People Management - Required
• Software Engineering - Required
• Product Management - Preferred
• Computer Science - Preferred
• Software Development - Preferred
• Agile Methodology - Preferred
• Java (Programming Language) - Preferred
• Amazon Web Services - Preferred
• Engineering Management - Required
• Python (Programming Language) - Preferred

Responsibilities

• Participates in the interview and hiring process. Prepares and administers annual reviews and development plans, makes promotion and salary recommendations. Responsible for personnel planning and the allocation of team members to meet Enterprise Development project needs. Identifies and mentors future leaders / managers for company growth.
• Provides support and assistance to several agile development teams and their scrum masters. Has strong working knowledge of agile development principles. Helps to remove roadblocks that agile teams are unable to solve by themselves.
• Provides input to product owners on the product strategy and vision. Gives feedback to the product owners on the content and prioritization of the product backlog.
• Builds relationships with other IT departments and business units and mitigates conflict to facilitate inter-department communication and agile team progress in order to meet business objectives. Acts as a catalyst for change to improve applications or processes which benefit IT and/or the business unit.
• Demonstrates application knowledge and understands functionality of applications outside their area of expertise to identify potential impacts and make recommendations to minimize the impacts. Responds to questions from other IT departments and business units and coordinates resolution of critical issues to provide support for production applications.

Skills

Engineering Management

People Management

Mentorship

Planning

Coaching

Collaboration

Software Engineering

Agile Methodology

Java

Python

AWS

Product Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer related discipline

Job description

Paychex is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our Code Advanced Payroll development teams, overseeing cross-platform integrations on scalable cloud infrastructure and driving AI-powered applications. This role blends reliability for enterprise systems with the speed of building new solutions, mentoring engineers, and setting bold technical direction to impact hundreds of thousands of businesses.

You will collaborate with product owners, manage personnel planning, and guide multiple agile