Location: Remote / Hybrid – US-based
Travel: Periodic travel to New York City for client workshops
Experience: 10+ years
Contract Type: Long term contract
Job Summary:
We are seeking an experienced Senior POS Architect to lead discovery, target-state architecture, and integration design for an enterprise Point of Sale (POS) modernization program in the fashion and accessories retail industry.
The engagement focuses on defining the future POS architecture, integrating the POS platform with enterprise Systems of Record, and producing detailed solution designs ahead of implementation.
New Black EVA Unified Commerce experience is strongly preferred. Candidates with architecture experience on Aptos or other leading enterprise POS platforms, along with strong retail integration expertise, will also be considered.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead discovery workshops and assess existing POS, store systems, integrations, payments, and infrastructure.
- Define end-to-end POS architecture covering POS, mobile POS, OMS, inventory, loyalty, promotions, clienteling, and omnichannel capabilities.
- Design integrations between POS and enterprise systems, including ERP, PIM, CRM, OMS, WMS, loyalty, pricing, promotions, tax, and e-commerce.
- Architect master data distribution, canonical data models, event-driven integrations, APIs, webhooks, and data transformation.
- Define reliable integration patterns for retries, idempotency, error handling, replay, and recovery.
- Design payment integrations covering payment gateways, terminals, EMV, tokenization, and PCI-DSS compliance.
- Establish architecture standards, security, observability, monitoring, performance, offline resilience, and operational support models.
- Lead architecture reviews, vendor discussions, stakeholder workshops, and phased implementation and rollout planning.
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years of overall IT experience, including at least 6 years in POS architecture or retail store technology.
- Proven experience leading at least one end-to-end enterprise POS implementation or modernization.
- Experience in discovery, requirements elicitation, target-state architecture, and detailed solution design.
- Strong experience with one or more of the following POS platforms:
New Black EVA Unified Commerce — strongly preferred
Aptos
Oracle Retail Xstore
Toshiba Commerce
Manhattan Active Omni POS
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Commerce
Shopify POS
- Strong understanding of fashion, specialty, or multi-brand retail processes, including style/color/size product structures, pricing, promotions, loyalty, clienteling, and omnichannel fulfillment.
- Experience designing master data integrations across multiple enterprise Systems of Record.
- Strong knowledge of canonical data modeling, event-driven architecture, messaging/streaming, APIs, and integration reliability patterns.
- Experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Knowledge of payment processing, EMV, tokenization, payment terminals, and PCI-DSS.
- Ability to create architecture documentation, integration specifications, ADRs, and non-functional requirements.
- Excellent stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, communication, and architecture leadership skills.