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Get Access To All JobsADP is hiring a Senior Director of Engineering Excellence to lead DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Architecture, and Quality Engineering across our Shared Products portfolio.
- Are you a technology leader passionate about building secure, reliable, high-quality products at scale?
- Do you have a track record of driving standardization, automation, platform thinking, and engineering efficiency across a diverse portfolio?
- Are you excited about using AI to transform how software is designed, built, tested, secured, and operated?
If so, this may be the role for you. Ready to design what’s next?
The Role
As the Senior Director of Engineering Excellence, you will lead DevSecOps, SRE, Architecture, and Quality Engineering across ADP's Shared Products portfolio, including MyADP Mobile, Marketplace, Reporting & Analytics, Document Cloud, Enterprise Search, Communication Hub, Translation Services, Offers, and Connect. The portfolio spans cloud-native and on-premises technologies and provides critical capabilities leveraged across ADP.
Your mission is to create a consistent, highly automated, platform-oriented engineering model that improves productivity, quality, security, reliability, and speed. You will partner with product and engineering teams to set architecture strategy, evolve products toward reusable platform capabilities, and drive adoption of AI-enabled engineering and the ADLC.
Drive Engineering Excellence
- 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.
Set Architecture & Platform Strategy
- 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.
Advance DevSecOps & Quality Engineering
- 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.
Strengthen Reliability & Operational Excellence
- 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.
Drive AI & ADLC Transformation
- 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.
Measure Outcomes & Lead Transformation
Establish a common engineering scorecard across Shared Products, including availability, deployment velocity, change failure rate, MTTR, vulnerabilities, quality, automation, developer productivity, ADLC adoption, operational efficiency, and technical debt.
Build and develop a high-performing organization of architects, SRE, DevSecOps, and Quality Engineering professionals. Partner across Product, Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, Infrastructure, and Risk to drive change across a complex, matrixed organization.
To Succeed in This Role
Required 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in a related technology or business discipline.
- Experience leading engineering excellence within a large-scale, regulated, global technology organization.
- Experience modernizing legacy platforms while operating cloud-native services.
- Experience creating shared platforms and reusable capabilities across multiple product organizations.
- Experience applying AI and agentic engineering practices across the software development lifecycle.
What Success Looks Like
Success means Shared Products increasingly operates as one engineering portfolio with common standards, reusable platform capabilities, and measurable engineering outcomes. You will improve productivity, automation, quality, security, reliability, ADLC adoption, platform reuse, and speed to market — enabling engineering teams to spend more of their capacity delivering differentiated value to ADP's clients.
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.
What are you waiting for?
Apply now! Jobs.adp.com
LIEXEC
ADPTech
A little about ADP: We are a comprehensive global provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions that unite HR, payroll, talent, time, tax and benefits administration and a leader in business outsourcing services, analytics, and compliance expertise. We believe our people make all the difference in cultivating a down-to-earth culture that embraces our core values, welcomes ideas, encourages innovation, and values belonging. We've received recognition for our work by many esteemed organizations, learn more at ADP Awards and Recognition.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Equal Employment Opportunity at ADP: ADP is committed to an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace, and is further committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristic including: race, color, genetic information, creed, national origin, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lawful alien status, ancestry, age, marital status, protected veteran status or disability. Hiring decisions are based upon ADP’s operating needs, and applicant merit including, but not limited to, qualifications, experience, ability, availability, cooperation, and job performance.
Ethics at ADP: ADP has a long, proud history of conducting business with the highest ethical standards and full compliance with all applicable laws. We also expect our people to uphold our values with the highest level of integrity and behave in a manner that fosters an honest and respectful workplace. Click https://jobs.adp.com/life-at-adp/ to learn more about ADP’s culture and our full set of values.
ADP is hiring a Senior Director of Engineering Excellence to lead DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Architecture, and Quality Engineering across our Shared Products portfolio.
- Are you a technology leader passionate about building secure, reliable, high-quality products at scale?
- Do you have a track record of driving standardization, automation, platform thinking, and engineering efficiency across a diverse portfolio?
- Are you excited about using AI to transform how software is designed, built, tested, secured, and operated?
If so, this may be the role for you. Ready to design what’s next?
The Role
As the Senior Director of Engineering Excellence, you will lead DevSecOps, SRE, Architecture, and Quality Engineering across ADP's Shared Products portfolio, including MyADP Mobile, Marketplace, Reporting & Analytics, Document Cloud, Enterprise Search, Communication Hub, Translation Services, Offers, and Connect. The portfolio spans cloud-native and on-premises technologies and provides critical capabilities leveraged across ADP.
Your mission is to create a consistent, highly automated, platform-oriented engineering model that improves productivity, quality, security, reliability, and speed. You will partner with product and engineering teams to set architecture strategy, evolve products toward reusable platform capabilities, and drive adoption of AI-enabled engineering and the ADLC.
Drive Engineering Excellence
- 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.
Set Architecture & Platform Strategy
- 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.
Advance DevSecOps & Quality Engineering
- 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.
Strengthen Reliability & Operational Excellence
- 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.
Drive AI & ADLC Transformation
- 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.
Measure Outcomes & Lead Transformation
Establish a common engineering scorecard across Shared Products, including availability, deployment velocity, change failure rate, MTTR, vulnerabilities, quality, automation, developer productivity, ADLC adoption, operational efficiency, and technical debt.
Build and develop a high-performing organization of architects, SRE, DevSecOps, and Quality Engineering professionals. Partner across Product, Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, Infrastructure, and Risk to drive change across a complex, matrixed organization.
To Succeed in This Role
Required 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in a related technology or business discipline.
- Experience leading engineering excellence within a large-scale, regulated, global technology organization.
- Experience modernizing legacy platforms while operating cloud-native services.
- Experience creating shared platforms and reusable capabilities across multiple product organizations.
- Experience applying AI and agentic engineering practices across the software development lifecycle.
What Success Looks Like
Success means Shared Products increasingly operates as one engineering portfolio with common standards, reusable platform capabilities, and measurable engineering outcomes. You will improve productivity, automation, quality, security, reliability, ADLC adoption, platform reuse, and speed to market — enabling engineering teams to spend more of their capacity delivering differentiated value to ADP's clients.
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.
What are you waiting for?
Apply now! Jobs.adp.com
LIEXEC
ADPTech
A little about ADP: We are a comprehensive global provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions that unite HR, payroll, talent, time, tax and benefits administration and a leader in business outsourcing services, analytics, and compliance expertise. We believe our people make all the difference in cultivating a down-to-earth culture that embraces our core values, welcomes ideas, encourages innovation, and values belonging. We've received recognition for our work by many esteemed organizations, learn more at ADP Awards and Recognition.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Equal Employment Opportunity at ADP: ADP is committed to an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace, and is further committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristic including: race, color, genetic information, creed, national origin, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lawful alien status, ancestry, age, marital status, protected veteran status or disability. Hiring decisions are based upon ADP’s operating needs, and applicant merit including, but not limited to, qualifications, experience, ability, availability, cooperation, and job performance.
Ethics at ADP: ADP has a long, proud history of conducting business with the highest ethical standards and full compliance with all applicable laws. We also expect our people to uphold our values with the highest level of integrity and behave in a manner that fosters an honest and respectful workplace. Click https://jobs.adp.com/life-at-adp/ to learn more about ADP’s culture and our full set of values.
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Verify your SOC code before applying
Engineering Director roles map to multiple SOC codes depending on discipline. Pull the O*NET profile for your specific subdomain, civil, software, mechanical, and confirm the job offer uses the matching code. A mismatch between your credentials and the SOC on the LCA triggers RFEs.
Target employers with cap-exempt status
Universities, affiliated nonprofits, and government research labs can file H-1B petitions outside the annual cap and lottery. Engineering Director roles at these institutions get USCIS review year-round, with no April registration window required.
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Filter Engineering Director openings by verified H-1B LCA filing history on Migrate Mate. You'll see which employers have filed for this exact role type, so you're not guessing at sponsorship willingness during outreach.
Negotiate premium processing into your offer
Engineering Director hires often come with urgent start dates. Ask the recruiter to include premium processing in the offer letter before signing. This locks in the commitment and avoids post-offer back-and-forth with HR or legal.
Document your leadership scope for the LCA
Director-level roles must demonstrate specialty occupation status, which means your petition needs to show the position requires a specific bachelor's degree, not just managerial experience. Have your employer detail team size, technical scope, and required degree field in the support letter.
Confirm prevailing wage level before accepting
Run your offered compensation against the OFLC Wage Search for your job title, SOC code, and work location before accepting. The DOL requires your employer to pay at least the prevailing wage on the certified LCA, and a Level I wage at a director title often signals a misclassified role.
H-1B Visa Engineering Director: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Engineering Director role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, provided the position requires at minimum a bachelor's degree in a specific engineering discipline. USCIS scrutinizes director-level roles more heavily than individual contributor positions because some managerial jobs accept any bachelor's degree. Your employer's support letter needs to establish that the specific technical degree is a baseline requirement, not just preferred, for the role to hold up.
How do I find Engineering Director jobs at companies that actually sponsor H-1B visas?
Migrate Mate filters Engineering Director listings by employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history, so you can see which companies have sponsored this role type before. That's more reliable than asking recruiters upfront, since many H-1B sponsorship decisions get made at the offer stage, not during sourcing.
Can I switch employers as an H-1B holder in an Engineering Director role without losing status?
Yes. Under H-1B portability, you can start working for a new employer as soon as the new I-129 petition is filed, as long as your prior H-1B was approved and you've maintained valid status. The new employer files a transfer petition, and you don't need to wait for approval to begin. Confirm the filing date, not just the receipt notice, before your last day with the current employer.
What happens to my H-1B if my Engineering Director role is eliminated in a layoff?
You have a 60-day grace period from your last day of employment to find a new sponsor, change status, or leave the country. During that window you can't work, but you can actively pursue new H-1B transfer filings. Engineering Director roles at larger tech and manufacturing companies are common H-1B sponsors, so the transfer market for this level is active. Acting within the first two weeks gives you the most runway.
Does an Engineering Director role require PERM labor certification for H-1B sponsorship?
No. H-1B visas don't require PERM. PERM is part of the green card process, specifically the EB-2 and EB-3 employment-based immigrant visa categories. H-1B sponsorship only requires an approved LCA from the DOL and an approved I-129 petition from USCIS. If your employer is also sponsoring your green card, that's a separate parallel process.