Domain Architecture Director - Corporate Applications

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.•Miami, FL

About The Position

The Director, Domain Architecture -- Corporate Applications is a horizontal enterprise architecture leader responsible for defining and governing the target-state architecture of the company's corporate applications ecosystem. This role owns the architectural strategy and standards for the Corporate Applications domain, including finance and accounting, revenue management, HR and payroll, procurement, supply chain, legal and compliance, and other back-office and shared-service platforms, as well as the integration patterns that connect these systems with digital, partner, shipboard, reservation, data, and analytics platforms. Operating within a federated architecture model under Product Engineering, this Director provides cross-cutting architectural leadership across vertical delivery teams and embedded Solution Architects. The role ensures architectural integrity, compliance, upgradeability, and long-term sustainability of one of the company's most finance-, risk-, and operations-critical technology domains. This is a strategic architecture leadership role and does not function as an embedded delivery Solution Architect.

Requirements

10–12+ years of progressive architecture experience in complex enterprise environments.
Significant experience architecting ERP and corporate applications (finance, HR, supply chain, procurement, legal/compliance, etc.).
Deep knowledge of end-to-end corporate processes and their integration with operational and customer-facing systems.
Experience with API-first and event-driven integration patterns in corporate domains.
Strong understanding of compliance, audit, and control requirements impacting corporate applications.
Demonstrated ability to influence senior technology, finance, HR, and operations leaders in a matrixed environment.
Experience operating within federated architecture governance models.
Strategic systems thinker with strong financial and operational acumen.
Executive presence and ability to communicate corporate application architecture trade-offs in clear business terms.
Governance-oriented but innovation-enabling mindset, balancing standardization with business agility.
Ability to influence without direct authority across technology, finance, HR, and operations.
Strong risk management discipline for compliance, audit, and operational continuity.
Experience with modern cloud ERP and corporate application suites (in partnership with infrastructure and platform teams).
Familiarity with financial planning, workforce, and supply-chain analytics and their data integration patterns.
Experience leading or governing major ERP/cloud migration and corporate transformation programs.
Experience managing vendor lifecycle strategy and major corporate platform upgrades or consolidations.

Responsibilities

Define and maintain the multi-year target-state architecture for the Corporate Applications domain.
Establish architectural guardrails for ERP, finance, HR, supply chain, and other corporate platforms to preserve upgradeability, data integrity, and compliance.
Own domain capability models and architectural blueprints across multiple functions in the organization such as Finance, Accounting, People Excellence, Supply chain, Middlewear and APIs exposing corporate capabilities to shipboard, reservation and data platforms
Define domain-level non-functional requirements (availability, performance, auditability, resilience, compliance, and data quality).
Serve as the architectural authority for ERP and other core corporate platforms (vendor and custom).
Evaluate vendor roadmaps and influence platform strategy in partnership with finance, HR, supply chain, legal, and technology leadership.
Provide architectural oversight for major ERP implementations, upgrades, carve-outs, and corporate transformation programs.
Balance business agility and localization needs with platform standardization, risk, and lifecycle cost.
Define Corporate Applications domain service contracts, data interfaces, and API exposure standards.
Establish clear data ownership boundaries between systems of record in corporate functions (finance, HR, supply chain, etc.) and consuming operational and digital systems.
Participate in cross-domain architecture decisions through the Enterprise Architecture Council.
Define domain-level non-functional requirements (RTO/RPO, throughput, performance, compliance, and audit needs) for corporate platforms.
Collaborate with Platform Architecture to ensure infrastructure patterns support reliable, secure, and compliant corporate solutions.
Review and approve solution architectures materially impacting the Corporate Applications domain (ERP, finance, HR, supply chain, procurement, legal/compliance).
Identify and manage domain technical debt and modernization priorities across corporate platforms and integrations.
Provide architectural direction to embedded Solution Architects in finance, HR, supply chain, and corporate transformation programs.
Escalate cross-domain architectural conflicts (e.g., system-of-record disputes, integrational approaches) to the Head of Enterprise Architecture when required.