Global Solution Designer

ADP is hiring a Global Solution Designer. As a Global Solution Designer, you will serve as the strategic design authority for our clients' global Human Capital Management (HCM) transformation journey. You will lead the end-to-end solution architecture across HR, Talent, Payroll, and Time, ensuring a seamless balance between global consistency and local compliance. As the primary client-facing authority on solution design, you will build trusted partnerships with senior stakeholders and guide organizations toward scalable, standardized solutions that align with ADP best practices, product strategy, and their unique business objectives.

You will spend your day collaborating with clients, implementation teams, and domain experts to design and govern global HCM solutions that drive long-term success. Every day, you will analyse business requirements across multiple countries, lead design workshops, resolve complex cross-functional design challenges, and ensure global and local needs come together within a cohesive solution framework. Working across diverse industries and geographies, no two projects will be the same. Your ability to drive standardization, champion the 80/20 design approach, and deliver innovative yet practical solutions will help clients maximize value from their investment while supporting scalable global operations.

To thrive in this role, you must be comfortable leading complex conversations, influencing decision-making, and balancing strategic vision with practical execution. You are a natural collaborator who can align stakeholders across multiple domains while maintaining design integrity throughout the program lifecycle. Your communication style inspires confidence, builds trust, and enables clients to make informed decisions with clarity. You excel in dynamic environments, embrace change, and enjoy solving complex business challenges. If you are passionate about global solution design, enterprise transformation, and helping organizations achieve operational excellence, you'll find both a rewarding career and a collaborative team that values innovation, inclusion, and continuous growth.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Lead Global Solution Design: You'll own the end-to-end Global Solution Design across HR, Talent, Payroll, and Time, ensuring a cohesive, scalable solution that aligns with client objectives, ADP best practices, and product strategy.
• Establish Design Governance: You will define and enforce global design principles, standards, and decision frameworks across regions and domains.
• Partner with Clients and Stakeholders: You will serve as the primary point of engagement for global HR and IT solution design discussions.
• Drive Cross-Domain Alignment: You will collaborate closely with HR, Payroll, Time, Talent, IT, Finance, Legal, and implementation teams to ensure all aspects of the solution work together seamlessly.
• Support Sales and Solutioning Efforts: You'll partner with Sales and Solution Consulting teams on complex global opportunities.
• Govern Design Quality and Compliance: You will oversee domain-level design activities to ensure all build, test, and implementation efforts remain aligned to the approved Global Solution Design.
• Guide Program Delivery: You will translate design decisions into clear documentation, governance artifacts, decision logs, and implementation guidance.
• Communicate and Influence: You will facilitate design workshops, present recommendations to executive stakeholders, and explain the rationale behind design decisions.
• Champion Continuous Improvement: You will leverage feedback from clients, implementation teams, and project outcomes to enhance future solution designs.
• Focus on Long-Term Value: You will ensure every design supports sustainable operations beyond go-live.

TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:

• Extensive experience in HR technology and transformation.
• Deep HCM domain expertise.
• Enterprise solution design leadership.
• Executive stakeholder management.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills.
• Global operating model expertise.
• Data governance and analytics knowledge.
• Professional credentials.
• Travel flexibility.

You’ll Collaborate With:

• Sales, Solution Consulting, Product Management, Implementation, and Client Service teams.
• Global HR Centers of Excellence (COEs), HR Operations, Regional HR leaders, and Payroll leadership.
• IT teams including Enterprise Architecture, Integrations, Security, and Data Management.
• Finance, Legal, Privacy, vendors, system integrators, and Program Leadership/PMO stakeholders.

You’ll Also Love Working Here Because You Can:

• Belong by joining one of our Business Resource Groups to connect globally with networks and allies who share common interests and experiences.
• Be your healthiest. Best-in-class benefits start on Day 1.
• Focus on your mental health and well-being.
• Join a company committed to giving back and generating a lasting, positive impact upon the communities in which we work and live.
• Get paid to pay it forward. Company-paid time off for volunteering for causes you care about.

Diversity, Equity Inclusion & Equal Employment Opportunity at ADP: ADP is committed to an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace, and is further committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristic.

Ethics at ADP: ADP has a long, proud history of conducting business with the highest ethical standards and full compliance with all applicable laws.