Sr. Director – Network Engineering

ADP is hiring a Sr. Director, Network Engineering

We are hiring a Sr. Director, Networking Sr. Director, Network Engineering is responsible for overseeing the design, implementation, and the life cycle of Network Services across the enterprise, including Cloud, with a heavy focus on operating Network as a Service. This role will report to the VP of Core Infrastructure. This leader will be accountable for executing the Network Services vision and strategy and for providing a highly secure and available network infrastructure across ADP private and public cloud as well as across all offices and remote work locations.

Responsibilities:

• Technology Leadership: Responsible for providing critical technology leadership specifically to drive the adoption of Network as a Service in support of our Hybrid Cloud strategy and SDN.
• Security and Compliance: Collaborating with security teams to implement and maintain robust security measures, ensuring compliance with industry regulations and data protection standards.
• Strategic Planning: Using a data driven approach, develop the plan and roadmap for network deliver and network lifecycle management including refresh activities, aligning it with business goals and technology standards. Ensure measurable metrics are in place to report on goals and objectives. Interface with Program/ Project managers to plan and coordinate network projects ensuring deadlines are met, resources are allocated appropriately, and risks are managed effectively.
• Budgeting and Resource Planning: Manage the global infrastructure engineering budget, identifying, and justifying investments in new technologies or upgrades, and optimizing resource allocation.  Working with regional finance and procurement teams to analyze, forecast budget and procurement needs to meet global infrastructure objectives. Create necessary PnL (Profit & Loss) business cases, ROI and Cost Avoidance Models
• Team Leadership: Manage a team and managers of associates. Emphasis on project/time management and performance management – by providing coaching, mentorship, support and performance reviews to ensure efficient and effective execution of projects. Ensure everyone on the team understands the vision and their role in the team(s). Foster collaboration with other teams within Global Infrastructure.
• Vendor Management: Evaluate and select external vendors and service providers.
• Collaboration and Communication: Build strong relationships with stakeholders across the organization, including executives, program managers, and other teams, to ensure alignment and effective communication.
• Lead culture and talent transformation to a software driven cloud centric operation, incorporating concepts of DevOps and agile into the team support model.
• Responsible for Lifecycle management across all Network assets ensuring the hardware, software, firmware is always compliant and fully supported.
• Responsible to ensure all critical and relevant services are monitored and alerted and to the extent possible configured for auto-remediation.
• Responsible to ensure all assets are in ITAM/CMDB with a high degree of accuracy and with relevant hardware, software and firmware information as well all upstream / downstream connections and dependencies.
• Responsible for capacity and performance management ensuring adequate capacity to support the infrastructure while maintaining high availability.
• Drive a culture of automation across all request fulfilment and drive toward zero change induced incidents in this space.
• Lead a culture of ensuring urgency around identification of root causes and implementation of after actions to ensure prevention of future outages.
• Drive product culture in infrastructure roadmap. Enhance the decision process with focus on ROI analysis and OKR tracking.

A little about ADP

We are a global leader in human resources technology, offering the latest AI and machine learning-enhanced payroll, tax, human resources, benefits, and much more. We believe our people make all the difference in cultivating an inclusive, down-to-earth culture that welcomes ideas, encourages innovation, and values belonging. We’ve received recognition as a global Best Places to Work and a recipient of many prestigious awards for diversity, equity, and inclusion, including a DiversityInc® Top 50 Company, Best CEO and company for women, LGBTQ+, multicultural talent, and more. As part of our deep DEI commitment, our CEO has joined the OneTen coalition to create one million jobs for Black Americans within ten years. Learn more about DEI at ADP on our YouTube channel: http://adp.careers/DEI_Videos

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Qualifications:

• BS in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics preferred.
• 8+ years’ experience in managing a global team. Experience working with several lines of business (operations, service, implementation, etc.) is ideal. Demonstrated ability to lead multi-million dollar initiatives from inception to implementation.
• Must be able to work well under pressure and have a strong understanding of the existing technology landscape along with new and emerging technologies, as well as, Business Process improvements and Change Management.
• Must possess excellent executive level communication, presentation and negotiation skills and recognized organizational savvy. Superb organizational and time management skills for managing multiple, diverse and conflicting activities and senior leaders as required.
• Must be able to interface with and influence key internal stakeholders, as well as interact effectively with C-level client contacts and third party vendor executives.
• Proven ability to drive decisions and actions among diverse groups to achieve goals.
• Strong quantitative, analytical, benchmarking and statistical skills.
• Experience leadership capable of building a strong cross business unit team that can achieve the highest standards of performance.

• Considers themselves a technologist or engineer first, and seeks to champion development creativity.
• Empathy for customer needs and business unit associates to drive overall customer success.
• Able to make the hard calls on personnel assignments. Not afraid to take bold moves.
• Understands the criticality of quality and continual operations (24x7x365).
• Can operate in distributed/large company (1000+ engineers working in software/SaaS).

You’ll love working here because:

• Be yourself in a culture that values equity, inclusion, and belonging and creates a safe space for diverse perspectives and insights.
• Belong by joining one of nine Business Resource Groups to connect globally with networks and allies who share common interests and experiences.
• Grow your career in an agile, fast-paced environment with plenty of opportunities to progress.
• Continuously learn through ongoing training, development, and mentorship opportunities.
• Be your healthiest. Best-in-class benefits start on Day 1 because healthy associates are happy ones.
• Focus on your mental health and well-being. We’re here to provide exceptional service to our clients, and none of that happens without each of us taking care of ourselves and being there for one another.
• Join a company committed to giving back and generating a lasting, positive impact upon the communities in which we work and live.
• Get paid to pay it forward. Company-paid time off for volunteering for causes you care about.

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