Chief Architect of AI

• 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?

ADP’s AI Platform team is seeking a Chief Architect of AI. A group that’s reshaping how the world works through responsible, human-centered AI.  The successful candidate will report to the VP of AI and play a key role in building the future of intelligent work at ADP.

Our mission is to make trusted AI a shared capability across ADP - not a collection of isolated solutions. We’re building the Intelligence Layer that connects knowledge, agents, and reusable AI services so product teams can create experiences that help people do great work.

As Chief Architect of AI, you’ll shape the foundations that make this possible: a cohesive platform that enables innovation across ADP while embedding governance, reliability, and operational discipline.

Our AI Platform scales toward more than 80 engineers spanning Delivery, Enablement, Knowledge, and Operations, you’ll connect their work through a shared architectural vision. Your influence will extend beyond this team, helping teams across ADP build on our common foundations without requiring every AI solution to be rebuilt by other organizations.

• Set the architectural vision. Define the blueprint and technical roadmap for ADP’s Intelligence Layer, connecting near-term delivery with ADP’s broader AI ambitions.
• Connect the core capabilities. Establish a cohesive architecture across agent frameworks, platform APIs, knowledge and retrieval systems, model runtimes, evaluation frameworks, and operations.
• Enable innovation across ADP. Create shared foundations, integration patterns, and clear standards that help product teams adopt AI while retaining flexibility to meet their needs.
• Make reuse the advantage. Guide common capabilities that reduce duplication and fragmentation, allowing teams to focus on differentiated experiences.
• Make governance an accelerator. Establish practical architectural guardrails and decision processes that help teams deliver securely and confidently without creating unnecessary bottlenecks.
• Design for production. Embed scalability, reliability, observability, security, and operational excellence into the platform from the start.
• Build enterprise alignment. Serve as a primary architectural partner to enterprise architecture, product organizations, security, compliance, and platform teams.
• Stay close to execution. Partner with engineers on consequential design decisions, resolve cross-team tradeoffs, and guide implementation from concept through production.
• Multiply technical leadership. Mentor technical leaders and strengthen a culture of clear decisions, shared ownership, and engineering excellence.

• AI Experience: Experience with major AI platforms (OpenAI, Anthropic, others) and ability to leverage to enhance products and features.
• AI-Assisted Dev Tools: Proficient with AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, CoPilot, Amazon Q, Cursor, etc).
• AI Best Practices. Effective prompt engineering, performance optimization, and secure data handling.

• Have courageous 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 leading 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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