Why Join Us
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.
Job Functions:
- 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.
Basic 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 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.
Other Qualifications
- Must be 18 years of age or older
Compensation
The compensation range for this position is $140,000.00 - $165,000.00 annually. This position will be eligible for commission or an annual performance incentive plan. The base pay actually offered will vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, location, experience and take into account internal equity.Benefits
In line with our commitment to employee wellbeing, our total rewards benefits package is designed to support the physical, financial, and emotional health of our employees, tailored to meet their unique and evolving needs. Our approach considers our employees’ whole selves, ensuring they can thrive both in and outside of work. Here are some of the benefits we offer, which may vary based on role, location, or hours worked:
Healthcare (Medical, Dental, Vision)
Paid Time Off, Volunteer Time Off, and Holidays
Employer-Matched Retirement Plan
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
Infertility Treatment, Adoption and Surrogacy Assistance
Tuition Reimbursement
These benefits are designed to enhance the health, protect the financial security, and provide peace of mind to our employees and their families.
Deluxe Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, disability, sex, age, ethnic or national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or presentation, pregnancy, genetics, veteran status or any other status protected by state or federal law.
Please view the electronic EEO is the Law Poster which serves to inform you of your equal employment opportunity protections as part of the application process.
Reasonable Accommodation for Job Seekers with a Disability: If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to [email protected].
Skills Required
- 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
- Experience in payments, fintech, merchant services, or a comparably regulated transaction-processing domain
- Ownership of an enterprise CI/CD platform, including pipeline-as-code, templating, reuse, RBAC, secrets management, and multi-team governance
- Experience integrating security scanning into delivery pipelines and setting policy gates
- Depth in API and integration architecture, including REST, asynchronous messaging, event-driven patterns, and API lifecycle governance
- Experience with AWS, AWS Services, cloud-native architecture, and Kubernetes in production
- Experience influencing technical direction across teams without reporting authority and explaining trade-offs to executives
- Hands-on Harness product experience across multiple modules, particularly CI/CD, STO, SEI, or CCM
- Policy-as-code experience using OPA/Rego or comparable technologies
- Cloud cost management or FinOps practice ownership, including showback or chargeback implementation
- Applied generative AI or agentic development patterns to real engineering workflows, including governance
- 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 experience with .NET, Java, Go, or Node.js and GitHub or Atlassian toolchains
- Must be 18 years of age or older
Deluxe Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Deluxe and has not been reviewed or approved by Deluxe.
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Retirement Support — The company provides a 401(k) with employer matching and an employee stock purchase plan, with access beginning quickly for many roles. The 401(k) match, paused during the pandemic, has been reinstated, signaling continued support for long‑term savings.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible time off, paid holidays, and paid volunteer time are available, with benefits often starting on day one. Parental leave, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and family medical leave expand time‑off support across life stages.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are provided with day‑one eligibility in many cases. Additional resources like disability coverage, an employee assistance program, and multi‑dimensional well‑being support bolster the core health offering.
Deluxe Insights
What We Do
We help enterprises, small businesses and financial institutions deepen customer relationships through trusted, technology-enabled solutions. Here at Deluxe, we help you unlock your potential so that your business successfully grows and thrives which positively impacts our communities all around. Our innovative payments, data and marketing solutions help you Accelerate Growth, Enable Payments and Empower your SMB Relationships. Accelerate Growth – With us, we propel your business forward with data-driven customer acquisition and multi-platform marketing toolkits; accelerate customer acquisition through our targeted data driven marketing campaigns and build brands through our customized, brand compliant web storefronts, promotional products, print services, and retail packaging services. Enable Payments – Our technology solutions enable you to send and process payments more easily. With us, you can optimize your order to cash processes with Lockbox, integrated receivables and bill pay, as well as improve your payer and payee experience with our secure and convenient check products and flexible digital payments. Empower Small Business Relationships – We help empower your small business with tools to start, run, grow and operate the business. We help increase revenue with promotional products, data driven and print marketing and retail packaging as well as support in managing income with our checks and forms, digital payments, and remote deposit capture. We also assist in protecting and branding businesses with logo design, trademark filings and websites and hosting services along with assisting in managing HR and Operations using our incorporation services, and payroll and human capital management. Unlock your potential: www.deluxe.com
