Principal Risk Architect

ADP is hiring a Principal Risk Architect

• 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 that owns the outcomes, partners with purpose and enables execution excellence?

Well, this may be the role for you. Ready to make your mark?

In this role, you will be part of the Global Product Development Strategy & Operations team that are strategic enablers and change agents driving continuous improvement across our technology teams. We're seeking an experienced architect focused on reducing risk and improving application resiliency and reliability of ADP's products. And you will need to have private/public Cloud experience. The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise, strategic vision, hands-on experience in building highly scalable and performant systems, and out of the box thinking and technical solutioning to large and tough problems.

You will work alongside the global security organization, architects from application development and infrastructure teams, product owners and business partners. You'll proactively look for resiliency opportunities, review security and resiliency incidents, propose potential solutions, and analyze third party tools that could be incorporated into ADP's ecosystem.

To thrive in this role, you have experience in architecture, design, and building large-scale distributed services-oriented systems. You'll need to have a solid understanding of secure software development lifecycle and DevSecOps principles, and a solid understanding of technologies, including APIs, distributed systems design including cloud environments like AWS and Azure. You strive to learn new security frameworks and new technologies and find ways to incorporate what you learn into your consulting activities. This role requires you to have clear, compelling, and influential communication skills to succeed. You must be adept at teaching, leading, and influencing. As part of our team, you will influence product success and help shape our industry.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

Here's what you can expect on a typical day in the life of a Principal Risk Architect at ADP.

• Variety of work. There is no typical day. You could be working on anything from application security, risk and resiliency initiatives, disaster recovery scenarios, or participating in Cloud migration strategies and operations.
• Business Security Incidents. You will work with a team focused on reviewing and reducing incidents. You'll look for design patterns and stage gates in the product lifecycle to avoid the possibilities of human errors that may result in incidents. Then, you'll look for opportunities to prevent security incidents by researching third party DLP tools and GenAI opportunities.
• Cloud Architecture Expertise. You'll be a technical program leader to engage and represent Resiliency team and work with other architects to develop and implement cloud-based infrastructure and services that are secure, scalable, and resilient. You'll be helping teams to assess on-premises infrastructure and applications to decide on the most appropriate cloud services, ensure to adhere to security and compliance requirements.
• Risk and Resiliency. You'll lead self-assessment reviews of all products that includes proactive risk identification And execute red/purple resiliency scenarios. You will help to define and prepare ADP for multiple DR scenarios. And you'll proactively look for resiliency opportunities and work back with development teams to solution them.
• You're always learning and operating with a "figure it out" mentality.
• You're comfortable working with technology that has never been used before. Inevitable challenges will arise, and we'll rely on you to look for a solution.
• Experience. You have 12+ years of experience in relevant skills gained and developed in the same or similar role.

TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:

• You'll have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity or a related field.
• Experience in application security architecture and development in enterprise class organizations across multiple languages and platforms, including APIs.
• Expertise is secure software development life cycle (SDLC) and DevSecOps.
• Experience in securing cloud environment and containers.
• Possess significant knowledge of application security, web application design, information security, databases, common coding practices.
• Ability to perform risk and resiliency assessments.
• Experience with designing, building and testing highly resilient, performing and recoverable applications.
• Demonstrate well-developed organizational, written communication, and analytical skills.

YOU'LL LOVE WORKING HERE BECAUSE YOU CAN:

• Team collaboration. Courage comes from how associates are willing to have difficult conversations, speak up, be an owner, and challenge one another's ideas to net out the best solution.
• Deliver at epic scale. We deliver real user outcomes using strong judgment and good instincts. We're obsessed with the art of achieving simplicity with a focus on client happiness and productivity.
• Be surrounded by curious learners. We align ourselves with other smart people in an environment where we grow and elevate one another to the next level. We encourage our associates to listen, stay agile, and learn from mistakes.
• Act like an owner & doer. Mission-driven and committed to navigating change, you will be encouraged to take on any challenge and solve complex problems. No tasks are beneath or too great for us. We are hands-on and willing to master our craft.
• Give back to others. Always do the right thing for our clients and our community and humbly give back to the community where we live and work. Support our associates in times of need through ADP's Philanthropic Foundation.
• Join a company committed to equality and equity. Our goal is to impact lasting change through our actions.

What are you waiting for? Apply today!
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