Director of Engineering, Global Payroll Systems

Engineering Director, Employee Success Technology

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Digital Enterprise Technology (DET) is seeking an Engineering Director to lead Employee Success Technology within the CIO Organization, with a primary focus on Global Payroll Systems. As an engineering leader, you will focus on developing the team around you while delivering robust, scalable technology infrastructure that serves employees across international markets throughout the entire Hire to Retire employee lifecycle.

You will bring your technical expertise to drive teams to success around feature delivery and management for complex global employee systems, with particular emphasis on payroll operations and compliance. You are as enthusiastic about building a world-class engineering team as you are about solving challenging technical problems. You will help shape, direct and execute our technology vision, blending customer-centric principles, industry-changing innovation, and reliable delivery of new technologies.

Technical Leadership & Strategic Vision

• Drive the technical vision for comprehensive global Employee Success capabilities across all employee lifecycle stages, with specialized expertise in payroll systems
• Build and evolve large-scale distributed systems to reliably process billions of data points across the complete employee technology stack
• Lead development of cloud-native platforms on public cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure) with focus on scalability, security, and compliance

Team Development & Management

System Operations & Reliability

Platform Integration & Development

Cross-Functional Partnership

We are seeking a seasoned, strategic, and technically excellent Engineering Director with a passion for building innovative Employee Success technology solutions in a complex, international environment. The ideal candidate is a visionary technical leader who excels at translating complex employee lifecycle challenges into scalable, compliant engineering solutions while building and mentoring world-class engineering teams.

Education & Experience Foundation

Technical Leadership & Architecture

Team Management & Development

Communication & Collaboration

Leadership Qualities

Preferred Qualifications

In office expectations are 10 days / a quarter to support customers and / or collaborate with their teams.

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