Senior Solutions Architect - SurePayroll

Paychex is reimagining how businesses manage their workforce by bringing payroll, HR, benefits, and advisory services together into a single connected HCM platform. As Paychex and Paycor come together, we're combining innovative technology, data-driven insights, AI, and human expertise to help organizations work smarter, support their people, and achieve better business outcomes. This is an exciting time to join our team as we continue to invest in innovation, simplify client experiences, and shape the future of work. At Paychex, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, make a meaningful impact, and be part of something bigger as One Paychex.

To provide technical and architectural leadership within a portfolio of products, program and agile teams in support of development initiatives. To provide strong end-to-end leadership in the analysis, design and delivery of solutions/applications and be responsible for ensuring the agile team follows design parameters and accepted design methodologies and principles. Sets overall high level guidance and technical direction to the development organizations and provides assistance to solutions architects. Sought out by technical teams for expert opinion, advice, and solutions.

Strong understanding of CRM systems , concepts, common architecture patterns, particularly with Salesforce and Hubspot; a development or hands-on technical background in one or both systems is preferred Works with Project, Program and agile teams as the technical leadership for the agile teams and defines the software architectural approach and high-level design for these teams while working to ensure assigned project goals are met within expected timelines and following SurePayroll standards. Validates project requirements and performs analysis to design solutions which identify and promote enterprise services to ensure a unified client experience as well as eliminate duplicate data and redundant applications. Develops and implements future state architectures, technology product roadmaps, standards, and frameworks to implement Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) practices and technologies within a SurePayroll product offering. These standards, roadmaps and frameworks will be used as a baseline for design evaluations and adoption of technologies across all portfolios. Establishes practices and tools for managing and enforcing consistent security, performance and policies across the Software Development Life Cycle. Collaborates with Sr. Development Managers, Directors, Portfolio Managers, Product Managers and Project teams to ensure portfolio goals are met within expected timelines and include strategic architecture items. Prepares and delivers presentations to program, and portfolio teams to educate and reach consensus. Develops innovative viewpoints that can be used to guide strategic decisions across the enterprise. Makes strategic decisions without prejudice, historical solutions or narrow perspective. Understands the enterprise-wide implications of day-to-day decisions so that they can be made effectively Creates and maintains technical documentation regarding software architectural standards, best practices and implementation of architectural components. Evaluates and manages external services leveraged within the application portfolio solutions for the purpose of reducing redundant partnerships and maintain oversight of 3rd party service dependencies. Ensures that the work of other designers or architects have the appropriate level of interoperability, performance, scalability, reliability, maintainability and availability, and is a company-wide resource for this expertise. Mentors, trains and provides guidance to the less senior level architects and Tech Leads in order to share knowledge and apply consistency in all applications/developments/designs. Demonstrates versatility of knowledge and applies strong technical skill base to contribute to any application (including