Senior Enterprise Architect - Platform & AI Tooling

Deluxe; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (Medical, Dental, Vision)

Paid Time Off & Holidays

Employer-Matched Retirement Plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disability insurance (Short/Long-Term)

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Deluxe Corporation is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to drive architecture strategy across large-scale systems in Atlanta, GA. You will define governance, cultivate AI-enabled tooling, and lead platform engineering initiatives including CI/CD, toolchains, and security integration.

The role requires 10+ years in engineering or architecture, expertise in TOGAF, AWS, Kubernetes, and API governance, plus a track record influencing technical direction without direct authority.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

TOGAF

C4 models

API specifications

Architecture decisions

Platform engineering

Toolchain automation

CI/CD

Kubernetes

AWS

Generative AI

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT

Tools

Harness

GitLab

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Argo

Spinnaker

Jenkins

Job description

Deluxe Corporation is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to drive architecture strategy across large-scale systems in Atlanta, GA. You will define governance, cultivate AI-enabled tooling, and lead platform engineering initiatives including CI/CD, toolchains, and security integration.

The role requires 10+ years in engineering or architecture, expertise in TOGAF, AWS, Kubernetes, and API governance, plus a track record influencing technical direction without direct authority.