Director, Application Development

ADP • Parsippany, NJ

9h

About The Position

ADP Technology Services, Inc. is hiring Director, Application Development, in
our Parsippany, NJ location.

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?

To thrive in this career, you’ll need to be enthusiastic, eager to learn, and
take on stretch assignments.  You strive to learn new technologies and find ways
to incorporate what you learn into building your results.  You’ll be curious,
persistent, and at times persuasive.

As part of our team, you’ll find exciting challenges, get opportunities to grow
your career, and develop solid friendships as we design what’s next for ADP and
the industry.  Pace should not scare you. We still find time for a healthy dose
of fun.

Requirements

• Education and Qualifications/Skills and Competencies. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related field of study plus ten (10) years of related experience required. The company will also accept a Master's degree and eight (8) years of related experience.
• Work Experience. Five (5) years of experience must include: Development of application n-tier architecture using design patterns; SOA principles; Web services; RESTful API; RDBMS/SQL; Java; J2EE; User Interface using JavaScript libraries; XML and JSON data formats; Spring frameworks; Java Persistence API; Unit testing and integration testing using JUnit; Responsive design; Version Control, including Git, CVS, and Subversion; Agile methodologies; Integrated Development Environment (IDE) tools, including IntelliJ or Eclipse; and Continuous integration and continuous deployments (CI/CD) using Jenkins.

Responsibilities

• Build Teams that thrive. As an experienced leader, you want everyone to shine. You are constantly looking for ways to share your knowledge, motivate others, and keep everyone engaged and productive.
• Learning. You’re always learning new technologies and processes with tools and other training courses, conferences ADP offers, and operating with a “learn as you go” approach with a willingness to figure out new ways of doing things.
• Create Results. You’re proactive and hands-on.  When you see a potential issue, you never leave things hanging and unfinished. When you and your team deliver a finished product, it’s as polished as you could make it.
• Continuous Learning. You will actively collaborate with other associates to share ideas or show what you’ve learned.  You are eager to learn, keep up with ever-changing technologies, and maintain the ability to create the best tools for our clients.
• Variety of work. There is no typical day.  You could be checking in with a team in India one minute, meeting with leadership to review initiatives for the coming quarter later and tomorrow handling a few ad hoc requests from your peers in other departments.
• Influence and inspire confidence. You are comfortable presenting to senior leaders, product owners, and peers with a compelling voice that you demonstrate through executive presence, leading change, and creating clear executive-level communications on milestone achievements.
• Challenges. Inevitable challenges will arise, and we’ll rely on you to look for a solution.
• Responsible for directing the activities of a software applications development function for software application enhancements and new products. Oversee the analysis, design, programming, debugging, and modification of computer programs for commercial or end user applications. Analyze and investigate applications engineering tasks and prepare design specifications, analysis, and recommendations. Responsibilities include achieving outcomes through leading technical team, including having accountability for the output and performance of the team(s), exercising significant influence on how the team members focus their time, conducting frequent communication to discuss expectations and provide feedback and coaching, having a high degree of participation in formal management responsibilities related to performance reviews and compensation decisions. Utilize business acumen and knowledge of the function or business unit structure to influence others, directly and indirectly, to achieve results. Interact with project managers, User Experience Research, marketing, sales, and users to define application requirements and necessary modifications.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager