ADP is hiring a Lead Application Developer - Mainframe in our Pasadena, CA 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?

In this role, you will work within a scrum team in our OneTax program to bring the designs and ideas to life for new NextGen platform. This work will support a mix of internal and external clients. You will work with clients, product managers, architects, software engineers, and more to plan, design, develop, test, and implement impactful solutions that support companies with one to millions of employees.

You will start your day on a scrum call to prioritize and track work. Within the team you work on, you will choose user stories to work within a sprint cycle. You will spend most of your day developing and testing your code. Every three weeks, you will be involved in the release activities.

To thrive in this development career, you'll need to be an expert in COBOL and have a firm grasp on , JCL, DB2, CICS, SPUFI, Change Man. You'll need to be familiar with web services, RESTful APIs, MySQL, Caching Solutions, AWS, GenAI and open source tools such as Apache KAFKA. Each sprint cycle could have a heavy front-end focus, a heavy back-end focus, a heavy batch job focus or a mix of them, so you'll need experience working with front-end, batch jobs, and back-end technologies. Like our best developers, you are an enthusiastic creator 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 products.

As a Lead Developer, you will work closely with your team to lead and guide projects to success. You'll have a hands-on role designing, developing, debugging, and deploying software solutions where you can leverage your expertise with code complexities. You'll also serve as a mentor to the junior developers. In the senior role, you will balance the assigning of user stories through prioritization and consideration of the technical interests of each developer on the team. 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.

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WHAT YOU'LL DO:

Here's what you can expect on a typical day:

• You'll start each day with a scrum, working in a team to understand responsibilities, identify issues, and communicate coding priorities while choosing user stories to complete. You will also participate in other agile ceremonies, including scheduled sprint demos, where you will present your work to stakeholders.
• Build teams that thrive. As an experienced leader, you want everyone to shine. You'll start each day by checking in with your engineering team to identify priorities and challenges. You'll find a way to make the team's day go smoother. You are constantly looking for ways to share your knowledge, motivate others and keep everyone engaged and productive.

• Build Products. You will use your technical expertise to review your team's work and help your people excel in an Agile environment. 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.

• 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.
• You have 8-12 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 degree OR equivalent.
• Developer with 10+ years' experience in Application development using COBOL, JCL, SQL, Insync, API, CICS, SPUFI, QMF
• Experience functioning as a Team Lead
• Experience developing API by following WebServices and JSON Patterns
• Experience of writing unit tests and Functional tests
• Proficiency in RDBMS such as DB2 or Oracle and NoSQL databases such as Mongo or DynamoDB
• Excellent Debugging skills
• Knowledge of Messaging frameworks like Kafka
• Design and Development of Batch Processing
• Understanding of Control-M and Job scheduling
• Experience facilitating code reviews, code quality checks
• Experience working with Product Owners to plan future work for the team
• Strong communication, Presentation and organization skills.
• Eagerness to experiment with new technologies and innovative ways to solve problems
• Must effectively collaborate with developers, and other relevant team members.
• Must be able to work independently, or in a team setting.
• Experience with Mainframe modernization

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. Master's degree in computer science, Software Engineering or related discipline is preferred
• Practical experience working in Agile environments and in product-focused technology organizations
• 3+ years of experience with Public cloud providers Cloud (AWS or Azure)
• Maintain hands-on interest in current technology trends
• Familiar with Functional programming & Software Design Patterns.
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines
• Excellent programming and design experience
• Familiar with GenAI concepts and helps to speed up the development cycle.

Base salary offers for this position may vary based on factors such as location, skills, and relevant experience. Some positions may include additional compensation in the form of bonus, equity or commissions. We offer the following benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Matched Retirement Savings, Wellness Program, Short-and Long-Term Disability, Charitable Contribution Match, Holidays, Personal Days & Vacation, Paid Volunteer Time Off, and more. The compensation for this role is $77,100.00 - $206,820.00 / Year

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.