Senior Director, Engineering - Virtual, Canada

About Us

WorkForce Software, an ADP Company, is the first global provider of workforce management solutions with integrated employee experience capabilities. The company’s WorkForce Suite adapts to each organization’s needs—no matter how unique their pay rules, labor regulations, and schedules—while delivering a breakthrough employee experience at the time and place work happens. Enterprise-grade and future-ready, WorkForce Software is helping some of the world’s most innovative organizations optimize their workforce, protect against compliance risks, and increase employee engagement to unlock new potential for resiliency and performance. Whether your employees are deskless or office workers, unionized, full-time, part-time, or seasonal, WorkForce Software makes managing your global workforce easy, less costly, and more rewarding for everyone.

Over one thousand organizations with more than 4 million users in over 100 countries rely on WorkForce Software solutions to streamline compliance, reduce labor costs, provide more intuitive tools to their employees, and achieve strategic HR on a global basis.

About the role
At WorkForce Software you’ll be part of an Agile software development team that uses the latest Java technologies, tools, and software development processes in a service-based architecture. We’re a software company, so you’ll be part of our core business rather than part of a group that supports the core.

WorkForce has a lean development team poised to do big things, making everyone’s contribution visible. We’ve fully adopted and embraced Scrum – not created our own version of it. This means we empower our employees to make the decisions and take the risks that drive the future of our company.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction and leadership to product development team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation and excellence.
• Oversee end to end development of product features from concept to production ensuring alignment with product requirements and company objectives.
• Leading the development team in the design, development, and delivery of software
• Foster a growing Agile empowered workplace and team ownership
• Support, coach, and advocate for team members
• Build your team of software engineers and Quality Engineers as we grow
• Consult and communicate with internal stakeholders throughout the business regarding development project expectations and deliverables
• Provide recommendations to implement tools and frameworks that support and improve the development environment
• Collaborate with various functions, drive engineering initiatives that can have an impact at the organizational level
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to optimize feature development processes, tools, and methodologies, enhancing efficiency and effectiveness.
• Participate in technical design as required in collaboration with Enterprise Architecture team
• Staying abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends to incorporate into the organization’s practice.
• Establishing and tracking metrics for performance, productivity and customer satisfaction

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years leading teams and managing staff
• Minimum of 5 years hands-on software development, technical management building web-based software solution, micro services, API design etc
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively engage with cross-functional teams, external partners, and stakeholders to drive successful feature system development projects.
• Proven leadership abilities, with a track record of mentoring and guiding technical teams, fostering innovation, and delivering high-quality feature systems that meet safety, security, and performance objectives.
• Experience recruiting and managing technical teams, including performance management
• Experience as a leader in Agile/Scrum development
• Experience working with medium- to large-scale object-oriented software systems
• Outstanding leadership skills
• Ability to successfully drive improvements; willing to take calculated risks to achieve team, departmental and organizational goals
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Familiarity with database systems and SQL
• Experience working with API's and integrations a plus
• Experience working with Java and/or JavaScript a plus
• Experience working with automated GUI and functional testing a plus
• Experience working with load and stress testing tools a plus
• Experience with web application security a plus
• Familiarity with CI/CD a plus
• Experience partnering with product, Support and other functions

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or equivalent experience.

This job description is not intended to be all inclusive, and employee will perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor and other management as required.

To maintain our goal of remaining a diverse and inclusive company, WorkForce Software advocates for and promotes a diverse, equitable, safe, and professional workplace where all people feel welcomed and empowered. We are committed to creating an environment that supports and celebrates the full range of our individual and collective differences, so that everyone can do their best and most innovative work, on the job and in our communities.

WorkForce Software is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, WorkForce Software will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact our Talent Acquisition Department at careers@workforcesoftware.com, 1-833-987-3831.

WorkForce Software is an Equal Opportunity Employer.