Principal Enterprise Architect - Tooling

First American Payments Systems•Atlanta, GA

About The Position

Be part of an organization that’s driving change and consistently recognized as a top employer. At Deluxe, we know that great people build great companies—and we invest in you accordingly. We’re proud to be recognized as a Great Place to Work and a top workplace for Moms, Dads, LGBTQ+ employees, and Veterans. We offer competitive benefits starting on day one, designed to support your life both in and out of work. 42% of our employees have stayed for 10+ years, citing our people, benefits, work-life balance, inclusive culture, and team support as key reasons why. As a Principal Enterprise Architect you must possess strong analysis, design, and architecture modeling skills leveraging frameworks like TOGAF. Facilitates groups effectively to develop enterprise architectures and business capabilities aligned to organizational needs. Communicates solutions clearly.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

Experience in payments, fintech, merchant services, or a comparably regulated transaction-processing domain.
Ownership of an enterprise CI/CD platform.
Pipeline-as-code, templating and reuse at scale, RBAC design, secrets management, and multi-team governance.
Harness, GitLab, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions with Argo or Spinnaker, or Jenkins operated at scale.
Experience integrating security scanning into delivery pipelines and setting policy gates that engineering teams accept rather than route around.
Depth in API and integration architecture: REST, asynchronous messaging, event-driven patterns, 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 of 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 FinOps 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 with [.NET / Java / Go / Node.js]; GitHub or Atlassian toolchain.

Responsibilities

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, and govern the artifacts that record them: C4 models, API specifications, and architecture decision records.
Be the person responsible for implementing & stabilizing Platform Engineering with in Deluxe that includes but not limited to Tool Chain Automation, Developer Experience Tool Management, Software Delivery platform management.
Own the toolchain around delivery — source control, issue tracking, artifact management, static analysis, test infrastructure including integration architecture, entitlement and license management, upgrade and migration planning, and consolidation of redundant tools.
Define golden paths: the documented, supported, default way a team goes from commit to production, with deviation as an explicit decision rather than drift.
Lead in implementing AI in the engineering workflow - Establish AI embedded tooling for design, code generation, testing, and documentation and the controls that make it safe: evaluation criteria, human review requirements, context and data-handling standards, and governance for generated code entering production.
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, facilitate architecture review, and build alignment among technical leaders.
Communicate decisions, trade-offs, and risk to executive, business, and engineering audiences.