ADP is hiring a VP Global Network Services

• Do you enjoy exploring, identifying, and inspiring the future of the workplace and the lives of millions of people?
• Are you a thought leader and the go-to person in your field of expertise?
• Do you live and breathe problem-solving, innovation, and collaboration?

Well, then you might be just the person we're looking for. #HelloWork

First things first: At ADP, we believe people make great companies, not the other way around. Our people make all the difference in cultivating a down-to-earth culture where ideas are welcomed and innovation is encouraged. The result? We're changing the world of work with our HR solutions that help companies of all sizes focus less on work and more on success.

Reporting to the Global Head of Infrastructure, The Vice President, Global Network Services is responsible for network services across the enterprise including Architecture, Engineering and Operations.

Additional Responsibilities

• Accountable for establishing, executing and maintaining the Network services vision and strategy and provide a highly secure and available network infrastructure across ADP private and public cloud as well as across all offices and remote work locations.
• Responsible for providing critical technology leadership in the network services space specifically to drive the adoption of Network as a Service in support of our Hybrid Cloud vision.
• Responsible for delivering a highly secure network architecture based on core principles of Zero Trust Architecture.
• This role is expected to have strong experience in Cloud technologies and Network as a Service with an emphasis on Software Defined Networking.
• Responsible for delivering high availability via multi-zonal and multi-regional strategy for private cloud ensuring the Network services are always available.
• Responsible for Lifecycle management across all Network assets ensuring the hardware, software, firmware is always compliant and fully supported.
• Responsible to ensure all critical and relevant services are monitored and alerted and to the extent possible configured for auto-remediation
• Responsible to ensure all assets are in ITAM/CMDB with a high degree of accuracy and with relevant hardware, software and firmware information as well all upstream / downstream connections and dependencies
• Responsible for capacity and performance management ensuring adequate capacity to support the infrastructure while maintaining high availability
• Drive a culture of automation across all request fulfilment and drive toward zero change induced incidents in this space
• Lead a culture of ensuring urgency around identification of root causes and implementation of after actions to ensure prevention of future outages
• Lead culture and talent transformation to a software driven cloud operation
• Drive product culture in infrastructure roadmap. Enhance the decision process with focus on ROI analysis and OKR tracking
• Requires strong leadership influence, executive level presence, ability to lead change, business/finance acumen, and demonstrated ability to lead multi-million-dollar initiatives as well as strong governance, organized methodology and execution.
• Responsible for planning and managing the budget for Global Network Services
• Must be able to respond to and address gaps related to internal, security and compliance audits
• Organizes teams for the ongoing evaluation, testing of emerging technologies that apply to Infrastructure Services for global operations and identified the need and initiatives recommendations for new and enhanced Infrastructure technologies, services or resources
• Create and distributes regular executive level communications and key milestone achievements on related projects
• Identifies, recommends and compiles required metrics in support of budgeting and investment requirements for related initiatives.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

• BS in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics preferred.
• 10+ years' experience in managing a global team. Experience working with several lines of business (operations, service, implementation, etc.) is ideal. Demonstrated ability to lead multi-million dollar initiatives from inception to implementation.
• Must be able to work well under pressure and have a strong understanding of the existing technology landscape along with new and emerging technologies, as well as, Business Process improvements and Change Management.
• Must possess excellent executive level communication, presentation and negotiation skills and recognized organizational savvy. Superb organizational and time management skills for managing multiple, diverse and conflicting activities and senior leaders as required.
• Must be able to interface with and influence key internal stakeholders, as well as interact effectively with C-level client contacts and third party vendor executives
• Proven ability to drive decisions and actions among diverse groups to achieve goals.
• Strong quantitative, analytical, benchmarking and statistical skills
• Experience leadership capable of building a strong cross business unit team that can achieve the highest standards of performance.

Attitude

• Considers themselves a technologist or engineer first, and seeks to champion development creativity.
• Empathy for customer needs and business unit associates to drive overall customer success.
• Able to make the hard calls on personnel assignments. Not afraid to take bold moves.
• Understands the criticality of quality and continual operations (24x7x365).
• Can operate in distributed/large company (1000+ engineers working in software/SaaS).

Just some of the reasons why you'll love working here:

• You can be your healthiest. Best-in-class benefits that start on Day 1, because healthy associates are happy ones.
• You can bring your passion and fun. Corporate culture woven from highly diverse perspectives and insights.
• You can balance work and personal time. Resources and flexibility to more easily integrate your work and your life.
• You can continue learning and growing. Ongoing training and development opportunities for even the most insatiable learner.
• We pay you to pay it forward. Company paid time off for volunteering for causes you care about.

Does this sound like you? Then, what are you waiting for? Apply now!

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