Senior Director, Engineering Excellence & Platform Vision

Automatic Data Processing, Inc.; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

ADP is seeking a Senior Director of Engineering Excellence to lead DevSecOps, SRE, Architecture, and Quality Engineering across the Shared Products portfolio, including MyADP Mobile, Marketplace, and more. The role spans cloud-native and on-premises environments to deliver secure, reliable, and high-quality software at scale.

You will design a consistent, automated, platform-oriented engineering model, partner with product teams on architecture strategy, and drive adoption of AI-enabled

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of progressive technology experience across software engineering, architecture, DevSecOps, SRE, Quality Engineering, cloud infrastructure, or related disciplines.
• 7+ years of leadership experience, including leading senior technical professionals and leaders.
• Demonstrated success driving engineering transformation and standardization across multiple products or platforms.
• Strong knowledge of modern architecture, APIs, microservices, distributed systems, cloud-native engineering, and platform architecture.
• Experience supporting both cloud-native and on-premises environments.
• Deep understanding of DevSecOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated security, and Quality Engineering.
• Experience establishing SRE practices including observability, SLOs, incident management, capacity planning, and resilience.
• Experience with public cloud and container technologies, preferably AWS and Kubernetes/EKS.
• Demonstrated ability to establish architecture strategy and create reusable platform capabilities.
• Proven ability to lead transformation through influence and translate technology strategy into measurable business and engineering outcomes.
• Strong talent development, executive communication, financial management, and organizational leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Establish common engineering standards, tooling, practices, and governance across Shared Products.
• Create reusable capabilities, paved roads, and automation that reduce duplication and increase engineering productivity.
• Establish measurable goals for quality, security, reliability, developer productivity, and delivery efficiency.
• Build communities of practice that accelerate adoption and reuse across teams.
• Define the architecture strategy and target state across cloud-native and on-premises products.
• Partner with product teams to evolve products to behave more like platforms, with reusable, API-first capabilities that can be easily consumed across ADP.
• Establish reference architectures and standards that simplify the technology landscape, promote reuse, and reduce technical debt.
• Guide modernization and major architecture decisions with a focus on scalability, security, reliability, and cost.
• Standardize and automate CI/CD, infrastructure as code, release management, testing, security controls, and developer self-service.
• Embed security and quality throughout the development lifecycle through automated testing, vulnerability management, scanning, and preventative controls.
• Increase test automation and establish reusable Quality Engineering frameworks.
• Improve developer experience, release confidence, and speed to production.
• Establish SRE standards for observability, SLOs/SLIs, capacity, resilience, disaster recovery, and operational readiness.
• Improve incident detection, response, recovery, and root-cause analysis.
• Reduce operational toil and recurring incidents through automation and systemic remediation.
• Provide leadership during significant production incidents and drive continuous improvement from operational data.
• Lead adoption of AI-enabled engineering and the ADLC across Shared Products.
• Embed AI and agentic capabilities across architecture, development, testing, security, CI/CD, operations, and incident management.
• Scale successful agents, skills, workflows, and engineering practices across the portfolio.
• Establish adoption and maturity goals and measure impact on productivity, cycle time, quality, security, and time-to-market.
• Partner with enterprise teams to help shape the evolution of the ADLC while ensuring responsible AI adoption.

Skills

DevSecOps leadership

SRE discipline

Architecture strategy

Quality Engineering

Platform engineering

AI adoption

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes/EKS

Job description

ADP is seeking a Senior Director of Engineering Excellence to lead DevSecOps, SRE, Architecture, and Quality Engineering across the Shared Products portfolio, including MyADP Mobile, Marketplace, and more. The role spans cloud-native and on-premises environments to deliver secure, reliable, and high-quality software at scale.

You will design a consistent, automated, platform-oriented engineering model, partner with product teams on architecture strategy, and drive adoption of AI-enabled