Senior Engineering Leader, Money Movement Platform

adpinternalcareers; San Dimas (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

ADP is seeking a Senior Director of Engineering to lead the U.S. Money Movement organization.

This role oversees a global team responsible for the development, modernization, resilience, and production health of platforms handling funds for clients, employees, agencies, and third parties. The leader will balance platform stability, modernization, risk management, and client commitments while driving a technology strategy and investment roadmap in a hybrid work environment from San Dimas, CA.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent professional experience.
• 12+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, application development, or enterprise technology.
• 8+ years leading engineering organizations, including managers and senior technical leaders.
• Experience managing a large, globally distributed engineering organization.
• Proven ownership of mission-critical, high-availability transaction platforms.
• Experience leading major cloud migrations, platform modernizations, or architectural transformations.
• Strong knowledge of software engineering, systems integration, data platforms, DevOps, and production operations.
• Experience managing significant budgets, vendors, and technology investment portfolios.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through high-impact incidents and make sound decisions under pressure.
• Strong executive communication and cross-functional leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and scale a globally distributed organization of approximately 80+ engineers.
• Build a strong leadership bench across engineering management, architecture, data, DevOps, and production support.
• Establish clear priorities, accountability, and operating rhythms across multiple teams.
• Attract, retain, and develop high-performing technical and leadership talent.
• Own the engineering strategy and technology roadmap for U.S. Money Movement.
• Ensure the reliability, scalability, security, and maintainability of high-volume financial transaction platforms.
• Continue modernizing the platform following its migration to AWS and upgrade to SAP S/4HANA, B/4HANA, HANA, and modern Linux infrastructure.
• Reduce technical debt, simplify architecture, and modernize integrations.
• Advance automation, observability, DevSecOps, data engineering, and software delivery practices.
• Balance strategic transformation with near-term product and operational priorities.
• Maintain end-to-end accountability for the production health of a Tier 1, mission-critical platform.
• Strengthen resiliency, disaster recovery, monitoring, capacity management, and incident response.
• Partner with Operations and business teams to meet payment-processing deadlines and client commitments.
• Provide executive leadership during critical incidents and ensure root causes are addressed through durable corrective actions.
• Use operational metrics and incident trends to drive continuous improvement.
• Partner with Product, Operations, Finance, Risk, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, and business leaders.
• Translate business priorities into a coherent technology strategy and investment roadmap.
• Ensure engineering practices and controls meet financial, regulatory, security, audit, and enterprise-risk requirements.
• Manage a significant technology portfolio, including labor, infrastructure, software licensing, vendors, consultants, and support contracts.
• Communicate complex technical and operational matters clearly to executive and technical audiences.
• The organization supports core money movement processing, SAP financial capabilities, data and analytics, bank connectivity, payment integrations, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, production support, reconciliation, and enterprise integrations.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Cloud migrations

DevOps

Production operations

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent

Tools

AWS

SAP S/4HANA

HANA

Job description

ADP is seeking a Senior Director of Engineering to lead the U.S. Money Movement organization.

This role oversees a global team responsible for the development, modernization, resilience, and production health of platforms handling funds for clients, employees, agencies, and third parties. The leader will balance platform stability, modernization, risk management, and client commitments while driving a technology strategy and investment roadmap in a hybrid work environment from San Dimas, CA.