Principal Application Architect

About NCR VOYIX

NCR Voyix Corporation (NYSE: VYX) is a global platform-powered leader in unified commerce for shopping and dining. Combining a flexible, intelligent platform with end-to-end payments capabilities and services developed through its deep industry experience, NCR Voyix empowers retailers and restaurants to accelerate new possibilities for their operations, experiences and business outcomes. NCR Voyix is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and serves customers in more than 35 countries worldwide.

Principal Application Architect

Organization: NCR Voyix – IT/CIO
Role Level: Principal Application Architect

Technology Focus: Enterprise & Solution Architecture, Digital Transformation, ERP/CRM Architecture, Cloud-Native Solutions, Integration & API Strategy, Data & Analytics Platforms, Security & Compliance, AI/Generative AI, Technology Modernization, Architecture Governance (ARB/TRB).

Job Summary

NCR Voyix is seeking a highly skilled, innovative, and results-driven Senior Solution Architect to define and drive the technical vision for our enterprise business systems, ensuring they integrate seamlessly, scale effectively, and evolve to meet future business needs. This senior individual contributor role provides architectural leadership across the organization, establishing the standards, principles, and technology direction that guide the design, implementation, and operation of critical business platforms.

As a trusted technology leader, you will partner with business stakeholders, solution managers, Cross functional IT and business team members to design resilient, secure, and scalable solutions. You will set the architectural foundation, influence strategic technology decisions, and enable delivery teams to execute with consistency, quality, and long-term sustainability. Your leadership will be instrumental in shaping the future state of our business systems ecosystem.

You will lead the design of technology solutions that support the company's go-to-market objectives and long-term business strategy. Your role will be to translate business goals into scalable, integrated capabilities that enhance customer experience, accelerate growth, and maintain competitive advantage.

DAY-TO-DAY Key Activities

• Lead cross-platform solution architecture across ERP, CRM, and SaaS ecosystems, defining integration strategies, architectural standards, and delivery roadmaps while driving projects from concept through implementation.
• Establish enterprise target-state architecture, end-to-end value streams, and transformation roadmaps while driving architectural governance, technology standardization, and strategic platform alignment.
• Own and prioritize top-level product backlogs for shared platforms, partnering with segment product owners to decompose initiatives into delivery-ready user stories with clear acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements (NFRs).
• Conduct cross-segment discovery sessions, design workshops, and architecture reviews to surface shared needs, resolve competing priorities, and prevent duplicative build.
• Define integration contracts, API standards, and domain boundaries for cross-segment data flows spanning across various platforms
• Lead architecture checkpoints and risk reviews for cross-segment initiatives; represent the combined product and architecture perspective in governance forums (ARB, TRB).
• Translate product vision into architectural runways and delivery-ready specifications that IT teams across the enterprise can act on immediately.
• Identify and steward opportunities for component and pattern reuse across segments; build the case for platform consolidation where segment convergence creates lasting efficiency.
• Serve as the primary liaison between segment business leaders, dev managers, Solution architects, IT security, and the enterprise CIO organization.
  
  Required Qualifications
  
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
  • 12+ years of progressive IT experience spanning product management, solution architecture, or a meaningful combination of both disciplines.
  • 7+ years of solution architecture experience and proven track record owning and prioritizing cross-functional product backlogs and roadmaps across multiple business lines or segments simultaneously, including managing competing stakeholder demands at the executive level.
  • Deep competency in API design and governance, event-driven architecture, and microservices patterns
  • Demonstrated ability to produce reference architectures, architectural decision records (ADRs), and solution blueprints consumed by multiple engineering delivery teams.
  • Proficiency in agile and SAFe delivery models: backlog management, PI planning, iteration ceremonies
  • Executive-level communication skills; able to synthesize complex architectural and product trade-offs into clear, concise recommendations for senior and C-suite audiences.
  • Demonstrated experience incorporating AI/ML capabilities into product strategy and architectural design

Preferred Qualifications

Solution Architecture Authority

Serve as the architectural decision-maker for cross-segment initiatives. Produce and maintain reference architectures, integration patterns, and design standards that guide delivery teams across all four segments. Author architectural decision records (ADRs) that capture context, alternatives considered, and governing rationale for reuse by future teams.

Backlog & Delivery Enablement

Own top-level product backlog items for shared platforms and cross-segment capabilities. Partner with segment-level product owners to decompose epics into executable user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria, architectural constraints, and measurable NFRs. Serve as the final arbiter on cross-segment feature scope and dependency sequencing.

Governance & Compliance Leadership

Lead architecture and product checkpoints for cross-segment solutions. Ensure all designs conform to enterprise security, privacy, and regulatory requirements including PHI, and data standards where applicable.

Define integration contracts, API standards, and domain data boundaries for cross-segment data flows. Ensure observability, data lineage, and end-to-end data protection for shared assets across the enterprise

Platform Reuse & Pattern Stewardship

Proactively identify opportunities to reuse components, services, and architectural patterns across segments. Evangelize shared capabilities over duplicated build; build quantitative business cases for platform consolidation where segment convergence creates measurable efficiency and reduces long-term technical debt.

Stakeholder Alignment

Act as the primary connector between segment business leaders, product owners, engineering leads, EA Activation, security, data, and enterprise CIO teams. Translate complex architectural and product decisions into narratives that resonate at every level—from PI planning to executive briefings—and maintain alignment across the enterprise

Offers of employment are conditional upon passage of screening criteria applicable to the job

EEO Statement

Integrated into our shared values is NCR Voyix’s commitment to equal employment opportunity.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, age, race, color, creed, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, military service, genetic information, or any other characteristic or conduct protected by law.  NCR Voyix is committed to being a globally inclusive company where all people are treated fairly, recognized for their individuality, promoted based on performance and encouraged to strive to reach their full potential.  We believe in understanding and respecting differences among all people.  Every individual at NCR Voyix has an ongoing responsibility to respect and support a globally diverse environment.

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