REPORTS TO: VICE PRESIDENT, DATA SCIENCE

The Director of Product and Technology is a critical role in our Product and Tech organization. This highly visible member of the Technology Leadership Team has overall accountability for the end-to-end strategy and delivery of a specific department or vertical of Paylocity’s business. She/he will lead multiple initiatives to deliver against that strategy.

This position requires a strategic leader committed to finding and delivering against our customers’ unmet needs. This role will enable a culture of innovation and ownership across all of Product and Technology – ensuring the teams are entrepreneurial and self-sufficient, while still focused on a common vision.

Are you the teammate we are looking for?

Who you are:

• Proven leader who has delivered highly scalable real-time data solutions in a fast-paced agile environment
• Passionate for all things Data Engineering with experience enabling an organization through data
• Experienced in creating & leading a highly resilient, performant and scalable 24x7 solution
• Collaborative, Entrepreneurial, Innovative and Humble
• Unwavering in your desire for production stability
• Have a passion for data and a clear vision for how data can unlock solutions to meet our customer’s unmet needs
• Influential leader who rallies multiple teams around the vision, and creates an atmosphere where teams are empowered to deliver
• Determined and willing to experiment, embracing constant feedback loops
• Focused on talent development by creating enabling and inclusive environments and identifying, mentoring and cultivating high potentials.
• Relentlessly curious about current market and technology trends, and influences product direction accordingly
• A superior communicator with an affinity for change management

During the first six months, you will:

• Recommend and gain the support across key stakeholders for end-to-end vision for how data will flow through targeted systems
• Develop and articulate the roadmap for the data function that clearly defined ownership and responsibility between the central data function and product teams
• Build a data model that joins together multiple disparate systems
• Pilot new tools and approaches to meet the needs of customers
• Be a sounding board for ideas and a center of excellence for all matters relating to current and future technologies
• Develop a strategy to secure long-term platform stability and world-class architecture
• Secure and establish strategies around internal vs. external technology investments
• Effectively maintain relationships with key partners
• Create a culture of accountability, quality, agility and high performance to foster the attraction, development and retention of excellent talent

Required Experience:

• Minimum 10 years work experience with technology company and a minimum experience of 5 years+ as a people manager
• 5+ years in a leadership/management capacity around data engineering, data warehouse, data lake, data mart and data pipelines
• Experience with big data architectures and data modeling to efficiently process large volumes of data
• Experience developing large data processing pipelines
• Background in ETL and data processing, know how to transform data to meet business goals
• Expert in SQL, preferably in SQL Server
• Working experience with building and running modern data architectures in a public cloud, preferably AWS
• Extraordinary people and program management skills, with a leadership style that inspires and shows confidence
• Experience managing a software engineering team with a customer facing deliverable is preferred
• Able to effectively present information, gain feedback and respond to questions from groups of leaders, clients and customers
• Hands-on knowledge of Agile engineering practices
• Possess the business acumen and technical expertise to create a big-picture vision and has the drive and attention to detail that transforms strategy into action
• Experience working in a matrix environment where authority is shared with business and product leaders