Principal Enterprise Architect – Tooling

• Facilitate, conceptualize, and define business systems solutions of moderate scope and complexity in alignment with Deluxe's vision at a project or portfolio level
• Set architecture principles, guardrails, and reference implementations
• Govern C4 models, API specifications, and architecture decision records
• Implement and stabilize Platform Engineering within Deluxe, including tool chain automation, developer experience tool management, and software delivery platform management
• Own the delivery toolchain, including source control, issue tracking, artifact management, static analysis, test infrastructure, entitlement and license management, upgrade and migration planning, and consolidation of redundant tools
• Define documented, supported golden paths from commit to production
• Lead implementation of AI in the engineering workflow, including AI-enabled tooling for design, code generation, testing, and documentation, with evaluation, review, data-handling, and governance controls
• Translate business priorities into prioritized technical investment with product and business leaders
• Work with security, risk, and compliance on payment-data protection, identity, access control, auditability, and delivery-pipeline change control
• Mentor architects and senior engineers and facilitate architecture reviews
• Build alignment among technical leaders
• Communicate decisions, trade-offs, and risk to executive, business, and engineering audiences

• Bachelor's degree in IT or a related field
• 10+ years in software engineering, solution architecture, or platform engineering, including architecture experience on distributed, high-availability systems
• Must be 18 years of age or older
• Experience in payments, fintech, merchant services, or a comparably regulated transaction-processing domain
• Ownership of an enterprise CI/CD platform, including pipeline-as-code, templating and reuse at scale, RBAC design, secrets management, and multi-team governance
• Experience with Harness, Git Lab, Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions with Argo or Spinnaker, or Jenkins operated at scale
• Experience integrating security scanning into delivery pipelines and setting policy gates
• Depth in API and integration architecture: REST, asynchronous messaging, event-driven patterns, and API lifecycle governance
• Experience in AWS, AWS Services, cloud-native architecture, and Kubernetes in production
• Track record of influencing technical direction across teams without reporting authority and explaining trade-offs to executives
• Hands-on Harness Product Experience across multiple modules, particularly CI/CD, STO, SEI, or CCM
• Policy-as-code experience (OPA/Rego or comparable)
• Cloud cost management or Fin Ops practice ownership; showback or chargeback implementation
• Applied generative AI or agentic development patterns to real engineering workflows, governance included
• Architecture leadership for large-scale API ecosystems, partner platforms, or merchant-facing onboarding
• PCI DSS-aligned controls, IAM, or fraud/risk integration experience
• Hands-on experience with .NET, Java, Go, or Node.js;
  Git Hub or Atlassian toolchain

Demonstrates expertise in solution architecture and platform engineering, with a strong focus on CI/CD practices, API governance, and cloud-native technologies. Proven ability to lead technical direction, mentor teams, and align business priorities with engineering solutions.

• Solution Architecture
• CI/CD Platform Ownership
• API Lifecycle Governance
• Cloud-Native Architecture
• Payments Domain Experience

• Software Engineering
• Platform Engineering
• API Architecture
• Kubernetes
• AWS Services
• Generative AI
• .NET
• Java
• Go
• Node.js

• Mentoring
• Communication
• Influencing Technical Direction
• Building Alignment
• Facilitating Architecture Reviews

• Bachelor's Degree in IT or Related Field

• Fintech
• Payments
• Merchant Services
• PCI DSS
• Identity Access Management
• Risk Integration
• High-Availability Systems
• Distributed Systems
• Governance Controls
• Auditability

• Harness
• Git Lab
• Azure Dev Ops
• Git Hub Actions
• Jenkins
• Policy-as-Code
• Static Analysis Tools
• Artifact Management Tools
• Issue Tracking Tools
• Cloud Cost Management Tools