IT CAREERS
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Architecture
Architecture
As Enterprise Architecture, we create and brainstorm new ideas, better processes, and ways to advance our product portfolio using the best current trends and new technologies. Through our cross-functional work, we drive partnership and collaboration, partnership in our business is crucial to being successful. We work at the strategic, architectural, and... As Enterprise Architecture, we create and brainstorm new ideas, better processes, and ways to advance our product portfolio using the best current trends and new technologies. Through our cross-functional work, we drive partnership and collaboration, partnership in our business is crucial to being successful. We work at the strategic, architectural, and execution levels with all areas of the organization. This includes the translation of requirements, sprint plans and development designs into the platform architecture, once that is created we lead the delivery of the infrastructure build out, documentation and implementation following the company’s continuous delivery principles.
Enterprise Architecture delivers design artifacts documenting implementation plans for both existing and new technologies in a cloud-enabled ecosystem focused on fully cloud, hybrid cloud, and on premises solution strategies. We also use our technical leadership for Paychex Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) to support Corporate Strategy and Paychex Product Strategies. As Enterprise Architecture, we create and brainstorm new ideas, better processes, and ways to advance our product portfolio using the best current trends and new technologies.
The central brain of technology at Paychex, Enterprise Architecture utilizes the knowledge and expertise in systems thinking, framework, continuous delivery (CD), continuous integration (CI), internal and external cloud solutions, advanced data representation concepts (noSQL, streaming/messaging platforms, analytics and data warehousing, etc.), machine learning, containerization, loosely coupled and extensible architectures. From microservices and APIs, bots, designing for reuse, JavaScript libraries, SSO, e-commerce, and HTML 5 technologies, concept support – and so much more - we are integral in consistently advancing Corporate and Paychex Product Strategies to ultimate functionality.
“I love what I do because of the many different people and roles I get to interact with across Paychex from sales and finance to service and legal. Lately a lot of the Architecture initiatives I’m a part of have to do with data management, data governance and compliance.”
Roles
We have roles such as Architect, Infrastructure Solutions Lead, Advanced Systems Engineer, Enterprise Architecture Manager and more! To search all opportunities click here.
“I love what I do because of the many different people and roles I get to interact with across Paychex from sales and finance to service and legal. Lately a lot of the Architecture initiatives I’m a part of have to do with data management, data governance and compliance.”
Corporate Applications
Corporate Applications
The Corporate Applications teams enable many of our business units at Paychex such as Sales, Marketing, HR, Finance, and Risk organizations with enterprise-wide data and analytics. Working closely with our business stakeholders, we define, plan and execute technology initiatives that drive revenue, increase sales units... , attract/hire/retain top talent, and manage and improve financial results.
We combine the best commercially available products with our extensions and integrations in concert with leading edge software delivery practices and technology. Our Corporate Applications ecosystem includes Salesforce.com and Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS/HCM/ERP) along with many supporting applications and platforms. We leverage Salesforce to manage our lead flow and sales forming and maturing our Oracle ERP practice with a transition to Oracle OCI cloud for integrations. Most of our software is designed for multiple release times per day using a continuous delivery pipeline, providing automated regressions tests and deployment.
We organize critical information across our business in our business intelligence and data management practice. We leverage database appliances such as Oracle Exadata with Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) for ETL to provide several data warehouses and data marts. This data is leveraged via many platforms including Oracle Analytics Cloud and R Studio Server. As a result, we enable thousands of self-service dashboards and reports throughout the business as well as countless data discovery use cases. Our Data Science practice community develops and maintains over 100 models, some of which are enabled by this data to drive key business processes, service experiences, and critical decision-making.
“Most recently I’m starting to work on a team to implement subscription management which will be an application that integrates our CPQ applications with our EBS back office….Our team is very bright, very knowledgeable professionals from an IT perspective, very team oriented and I daresay caring as well!”
Roles
We have roles such as Requirements Analyst, Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, Business Process Analyst and more! To search all opportunities click here.
“Most recently I’m starting to work on a team to implement subscription management which will be an application that integrates our CPQ applications with our EBS back office….Our team is very bright, very knowledgeable professionals from an IT perspective, very team oriented and I daresay caring as well!”
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Our Infrastructure team delivers the Engineering and IT Operational support for all platforms including both our Client Application and Corporate Application Portfolios, as well as the tech used by our 16,000 employees...
We’re an inspired team of people who provide, protect and advance technology empowering Paychex and our customers. We’re passionate about operational efficiency and technical solutions that deliver highly available, top performing and secure infrastructure services. We consistently excel at delivering infrastructure through a Dev Ops approach, utilizing the industry’s best technologies to innovate and deliver best in class infrastructure services for Paychex and our clients. With us, you can be at the leading edge of a world-class organization that builds the engine that runs a great company. Join our team and be inspired, too.
“I’m working on an exciting upgrade for an enterprise grade distributed event streaming platform called Kafka. At Paychex we leverage this platform to manage events that are produced and consumed by most of our business and critical applications.”
Roles
We have roles such as Database Engineer, Data Integration Engineer, Data Engineer, Voice Engineers, Voice Technicians, Network Engineers, Field Engineers, Desktop Engineers, Productivity System Engineers, Monitoring Engineer, Automation Engineer, Operations Engineer, Capacity Analyst, Service Health Operations Analyst, Business Continuity Analyst, Offline Storage Engineer, Operation Center Technician, Datacenter Scheduler, Software Analyst, Systems Administrator, Release Solutions Lead, Release Engineer, IT Release Analyst, Release Services Team Lead, Infrastructure Engineer, Middleware Engineer, Infrastructure Applications Engineer, Platform Engineering Staff Engineer and more! To search all opportunities click here.
“I’m working on an exciting upgrade for an enterprise grade distributed event streaming platform called Kafka. At Paychex we leverage this platform to manage events that are produced and consumed by most of our business and critical applications.”
Enterprise Program Office
Enterprise Program Office
In the Enterprise Program Office, we lead the development, communication, and execution of strategies to achieve portfolio goals. Paychex PD&IT typically has about 75-95 projects running concurrently, and the Enterprise Program ...Office leads all of them. Through cross-functional collaboration and partnership, the Enterprise Program Office drives the strategic prioritization process, develops the annual roadmap, and plans all PD&IT initiatives across 150+ agile teams. Program Management is used as our operational model, which includes inspection of application health, performance, security, and project execution on a biweekly basis with senior leaders.
We pride ourselves on being an industry leading Agile Practitioner. Our teams use the SAFe Framework with a focus on Program Increment Planning to ensure dependencies are identified across teams. Our sprint planning calendar is standardized across the entire enterprise to ensure alignment on very integrated and complicated projects. We have standard agile metrics around velocity, commit to complete and quality and facilitate agile team self-assessments semi-annually.
There are many career and growth opportunities in Enterprise Program Office. All our initiatives are managed through scrum masters, project managers, program managers and portfolio managers. If you are a great leader, communicator, and collaborator then a career in Enterprise Program Office is for you!
“We are working on the first predictive analytics report in Paychex…I really enjoy working on this project because I get to partner with several different teams across the organization…I’m also working with our teams on standing up a whole new reporting framework and it’s going to be changing the way our teams develop reports moving forward so it’s really exciting to be a part of such huge projects that are going to change the future of Paychex and our PD&IT department.”
Roles
We have roles such as Scrum Master, Project Manager, Program Manager, Portfolio Manager, Project Office Analyst, Product Owner and more! To search all opportunities click here.
“We are working on the first predictive analytics report in Paychex…I really enjoy working on this project because I get to partner with several different teams across the organization…I’m also working with our teams on standing up a whole new reporting framework and it’s going to be changing the way our teams develop reports moving forward so it’s really exciting to be a part of such huge projects that are going to change the future of Paychex and our PD&IT department.”
IT Service Desk
IT Service Desk
Paychex IT Service Desk is the front door into PD&IT and focuses on providing world-class end-user support to over 15,000 internal Paychex employees on technical issues around hardware, software, and IT service catalog requests. Our IT Service Desk employees excel in their support of both the latest industry leading technology, and the proprietary ...software of our internal Paychex products. Additionally, we lead service restoration efforts on some of our largest, most critical customer-facing system outages and application impairments.
Regardless of the size of the problem, our IT Service Desk solves it through a number of methods like technical troubleshooting, a constantly evolving knowledge management database that is 100% driven by our employees, elevated access, and the latest IT troubleshooting tools like Splunk, SQL, ServiceNow, Atlassian, BitBucket and others. Our IT Service Desk has a wide variety of functional efforts and teams that empower both internal end-users and Paychex clients to be successful. Here are a few of those teams and some really cool things they are up to:
Desktop and Application-Based Support Teams – these teams are always hard at work restoring service on some of our top end-user issues. Whether it’s related to Desktop support issues like hardware and unified communications OR our proprietary software for our SAAS technology, our Enterprise Support teams are there 24x7 via click-to-chat, self-service solutions or live call support.
Problem Management – this team uses environment monitoring and our vast knowledge database to identify trends in Production-based incidents with the focus of eliminating our top occurring issues and largest IT pain-points.
IT Technical Account Management – our IT Technical Account Management team forms essential technical partnerships with Paychex largest, most valuable clients through internal relationship building, strong leadership skills, and vast product knowledge.
Situational Leadership – this team performs one of the most critical roles in the company; they are responsible for coordinating and executing the highest priority issues affecting system downtime, internal employee productivity or safety, business continuity procedures (BCP), and many other high-visibility/high-risk issues.
Our Service Desk organization boasts an IT industry high in employee engagement scores as we offer many retention benefits like Flexible Work Options, paid learning and development, IT career advancement within Paychex and other awesome perks! On average, our employees have 10 years of experience on our IT Service Desk, and either choose to stay within our organization in some capacity or use the opportunity to break into another field within PD&IT at Paychex.
If solving problems, identifying trends and contributing to a world-class IT Service Desk culture interests you, then you sound like a great fit for our team.
“Currently I’m looking at analyzing all of the incidents or tickets that come into support, specifically for the programs under HRS and ENS. I like to look at the data from multiple angles and I try and find what tickets and issues are the most impactful to the company.”
Roles
We have roles such as Asset Management Specialist, Identity Management Specialist, Compliance Analyst, Configuration & SLM Analyst, Knowledge Reporting & Tools Analyst, Knowledge Reporting & Tools Engineer, Operations Project Lead, Problem Resolution Analyst, Service Partner, Service Requests Specialist, Service Resolution Analyst, Support Situational Lead, Support Supervisor, Incident Manager and more! To search all opportunities click here.
“Currently I’m looking at analyzing all of the incidents or tickets that come into support, specifically for the programs under HRS and ENS. I like to look at the data from multiple angles and I try and find what tickets and issues are the most impactful to the company.”
Product & User Experience
Product & User Experience
Product & User Experience consists of a diverse and talented team that leverages technology to support our clients and other Paychex divisions. We strive to be the lead change agent for Paychex’ ongoing digital transformation and move to Platform as a Service (PaaS) by
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We have six different divisions driving innovation: Enterprise Program Office, Platform Strategy & UX, Service Enablement, Operational Efficiencies, Sales Enablement and Financial Management.
“Digging into new technology for artificial intelligence, Google’s dialog OCX, and starting to leverage some of that technology and provide a better experience to our end users is one of the areas we’re going to be moving towards.”
Roles
We have roles such as UX Design Manager, UX Designer, UX Reporting Designer, UX Researcher, UX Content Designer, Video/Multimedia Developer, Requirements Analyst and more! To search all opportunities click here.
“Digging into new technology for artificial intelligence, Google’s dialog OCX, and starting to leverage some of that technology and provide a better experience to our end users is one of the areas we’re going to be moving towards.”
Security
Security
The Enterprise Security team is responsible for ensuring the sensitive information entrusted to Paychex by its 726,000 commercial clients is protected against unauthorized disclosure or misuse. Paychex is one of only a few companies nationally to build a state-of-the-art cyber fusion center that combines proactive cyber threat intelligence and threat
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hunting with a security operations center. Our team monitors the threat environment 24x7x365 and analyzes more than three billion data points for security risks each day to rapidly identify and respond to cyber security threats.
We have adopted leading edge security technologies like zero trust network access, artificial intelligence-based anomaly detection, and user behavioral analytics. We have embedded automated security testing into the software delivery pipeline and fostered a highly successful security champions program as we “shift left” in our journey to DevSecOps. And we have an amazing team of security professionals, named the “Financial Services Security Team of the Year” by American Cyber Awards in 2020 and receiving the HMG Strategy Global Leadership Institute’s award for excellence in information security strategy in 2021. If you want to work with leading security thought leaders and contribute your own unique talents where beyond-leading-edge state of the art security is absolutely essential to business success, you want to be here!
“The most interesting project I’m working on is the dev defenders project. It’s an initiative we have within the security space to shift security left in the dev ops cycle. Basically partnering up with developers, making sure that we share our knowledge and what we’re seeing on our side of the system in regards to security issues in the code, or problems that exist in open sources software…”
Roles
We have roles such as Security Analyst, Security Engineer, Principal Enterprise Security and more! To search all opportunities click here.
“The most interesting project I’m working on is the dev defenders project. It’s an initiative we have within the security space to shift security left in the dev ops cycle. Basically partnering up with developers, making sure that we share our knowledge and what we’re seeing on our side of the system in regards to security issues in the code, or problems that exist in open sources software…”
Software Engineering
Software Engineering
In Software Engineering we deliver best in class enterprise applications with the goal to allow our clients to do what they want, when they want, simplifying complex needs with streamlined workflows. We provide the tools they need, including wearables and voice assistants, to run their business effectively so that they can get back to what they
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do best. We deliver these mobile-first SaaS solutions through a variety of stacks and architectures and a mix of public and private cloud offerings.
Our team is made of some of the most talented and engaged people in our industry with a passion for creating world class software solutions. Our technologies include Java, .NET Core, Angular, React, Open Shift, AWS, Azure, MongoDB and more. We focus heavily on continuous delivery with DevOps concepts including automation and ‘everything as code’ – whether tests, infrastructure, builds, deployments, or anything in between. Paychex takes agile seriously; we run a scaled agile organization with 120+ agile teams. If you want to experience work that matters using modern technologies and SDLC practices, check us out!
“Some of the projects I’m working on is all around continuous delivery. We focus on automation, from releases in the dev environment all the way to production and we strive to have almost zero human interaction and minimal down time with Lucian deployment.”
Roles
We have roles such as Software Engineer, Automation Test Engineer, Performance Engineer and more! To search all opportunities click here.
“Some of the projects I’m working on is all around continuous delivery. We focus on automation, from releases in the dev environment all the way to production and we strive to have almost zero human interaction and minimal down time with Lucian deployment.”
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We make a difference. We’re builders and inventors. We are problem solvers and big challenge people. We’re pretty fun to be with too, in an office, hybrid or remote flex — its your choice. When you become part of our IT team, you’ll see caring leaders who listen to their people, have integrity, and a commitment to diversity. Above all we’re passionate technologists who love what we do and doing it as a team.
Leadership
Joining our team means you’ll have access to great leaders who will empower you to learn and grow in your career.
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