Domain Architecture Director - Customer & Loyalty

Prestige Cruise Services LLC; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH) is seeking a Director of Domain Architecture – Customer & Loyalty to define and govern target-state architecture for guest identity, profiles, loyalty programs, offers, and related data platforms.

You will lead architectural strategy across CRM, loyalty, and customer data platforms, ensuring data quality, upgradeability, and regulatory alignment while collaborating with Marketing, Revenue, and Platform teams to align roadmaps and delivery.

Qualifications

• 10-12+ years of progressive architecture experience in customer-centric enterprise environments.
• Significant experience architecting CRM, loyalty, and/or customer data platforms.
• Deep knowledge of identity, profiles, segmentation, and loyalty constructs for digital and operational channels.
• Experience with API-first and event-driven integration patterns and data governance considerations.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain multi-year target-state architecture for the Customer & Loyalty domain.
• Establish guardrails for CRM, loyalty, and customer data platforms to ensure data quality and upgradeability.
• Own domain capability models and architectural blueprints for identity, profiles, and loyalty constructs.
• Define non-functional requirements such as availability, performance, privacy, and regulatory alignment.
• Provide architectural oversight for platform upgrades and large-scale campaigns.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Revenue, and Technology leadership to align roadmaps.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Enterprise architecture

Stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor's Degree (Master's Preferred)

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

Job description

GROW YOUR CAREER WITH US

At Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH), we know our future success depends on our ability to attract and retain the very best talent. Our brands deliver vacations of a lifetime with innovative product offerings, a high level of service and unique guest experiences aboard each vessel and we're continually seeking applicants who are passionate about hospitality and committed to being their personal best. As you learn more about our company, we think you will agree that there is no better time than now to become a member of the NCLH family!

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 architecting CRM, loyalty, and/or customer data platforms.
• Deep knowledge of customer identity, profiles, segmentation, and loyalty constructs and their application in digital and operational channels.
• Experience with API-first and event-driven integration patterns for customer and loyalty data.
• Strong understanding of data privacy, consent, and regulatory considerations impacting customer and marketing technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior technology, marketing, and commercial leaders in a matrixed environment.
• Experience operating within federated architecture and data governance models

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Consumer-centric industry experience with loyalty programs and rich customer engagement.
• Experience with modern CRM, CDP, and loyalty platforms (in partnership with infrastructure and
• platform teams).
• Familiarity with digital marketing, campaign management, and personalization ecosystems.
• Experience designing and governing identity resolution, segmentation frameworks, and offer/eligibility engines.
• Experience managing vendor lifecycle strategy and major CRM/loyalty platform upgrades or migrations.

COMPETENCIES & SKILLS

• Strategic systems thinker with strong financial and