Director, Customer & Loyalty Domain Architecture

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JOB SUMMARY

The Director, Domain Architecture – Customer & Loyalty is a horizontal enterprise architecture leader responsible for defining and governing the target-state architecture of the company’s customer, identity, and loyalty ecosystem.

This role owns the architectural strategy and standards for the Customer & Loyalty domain, including guest identity and profiles, account and household structures, loyalty programs, offers and entitlements, and the integration patterns that expose customer and loyalty capabilities to digital, partner, shipboard, reservation, and corporate systems. Operating within a federated architecture model under Product Engineering, this Director provides crosscutting architectural leadership across vertical delivery teams and embedded Solution Architects.

The role ensures architectural integrity, data consistency, upgradeability, and long-term sustainability of one of the company’s most customer- and revenue-critical technology domains. This is a strategic architecture leadership role and does not function as an embedded delivery Solution Architect.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define and maintain the multi-year target-state architecture for the Customer & Loyalty domain.
• Establish architectural guardrails for CRM, loyalty, and customer data platforms to preserve
• upgradeability, data quality, and consistent identity.
• Own domain capability models and architectural blueprints across guest identity, profile and preference management, account, household and relationship modeling, loyalty program configuration, tiering, accrual and redemption.
• Define domain-level non-functional requirements (availability, performance, consistency, privacy, and regulatory alignment).
• Serve as the architectural authority for CRM, loyalty, and customer data platforms (vendor and
• Evaluate vendor roadmaps and influence platform strategy in partnership with marketing, revenue,
• and technology leadership.
• Provide architectural oversight for major platform upgrades, program redesigns, and large-scale
• campaign/offer capabilities.
• Balance marketing and commercial agility with data quality, brand consistency, and regulatory
• compliance.
• Define Customer & Loyalty domain service contracts, identity interfaces, and API exposure
• standards.
• Establish clear data ownership boundaries for customer identity, profile, and loyalty constructs versus
• transactional and operational systems
• Define domain-level non-functional requirements (response times, throughput, availability, scalability)
• for customer- and loyalty-centric capabilities.
• Partner with Platform Architect (Infrastructure Authority reporting to the CIO) to ensure alignment

DEGREE TYPE:

Bachelor’s Degree (Master’s Preferred)

FIELD(S) OF STUDY:

Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Business Administration (with technology focus)

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

• 10–12+ years of progressive architecture experience in complex, customer-centric enterprise
• environments.
• Significant experience…