Senior POS & Architecture Consultant

TEKsystems • Canton, MA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are hiring a hands-on senior consultant to help design and evaluate next-generation POS hardware and edge computing architecture for a large Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) environment. This is an onsite, individual contributor role based in the Canton, MA support center. The role focuses on architecture, tradeoff analysis, and future-proofing POS and edge systems—extending hardware life, reducing OS end-of-support risk, and ensuring platforms can scale with future software demands (including AI use cases) over the next 5–10 years. Responsibilities include evaluating current POS hardware and deployment models, designing edge-based architectures that support seamless offline operation, defining workload placement across POS endpoints, store edge, and cloud, and delivering clear architecture recommendations and diagrams. This role is not people management, day-to-day POS support, vendor ownership, procurement, or AI engineering.

Requirements

• Hands‑on experience with large enterprise POS systems in QSR or high‑volume retail
• Strong understanding of: Transactions, Payments, Peripherals, Offline / degraded network behavior
• Experience designing around existing POS platforms, not replacing them
• Real experience designing or operating edge computing in distributed environments
• Comfortable with store‑level compute models that work even when the network is down
• Experience supporting mixed fleets (legacy hardware + new stores)
• Experience with enterprise POS hardware such as: NCR, Oracle MICROS, HP (or similar vendors)
• Understands hardware lifecycle realities (long refresh cycles, mixed environments)
• OS imaging and lifecycle management experience
• Windows LTSC in POS environments (including tradeoffs)
• Linux for edge or backend workloads (practical use, not ideological)
• Understands how emerging technologies (e.g., AI, real‑time analytics, automation) impact store compute needs
• Experience with capacity planning and technology decisions looking 3–5 years out
• Able to design architectures where software growth does not immediately force hardware upgrades
• Understands what AI and future software demand from infrastructure.

Nice To Haves

• Headless or API‑first POS / commerce architectures
• Containerized workloads at the edge
• PCI boundary and payment isolation experience

Responsibilities

• Evaluating current POS hardware and deployment models.
• Designing edge-based architectures that support seamless offline operation.
• Defining workload placement across POS endpoints, store edge, and cloud.
• Delivering clear architecture recommendations and diagrams.

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed