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About the Role

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. We are seeking a visionary technology leader to define and scale the architectural foundation for Mastercard Services. This role leads a high-impact team of architects and partners deeply with Product, Engineering, and Mastercard’s Technology Leadership to create the patterns, platforms, and guardrails that enable thousands of engineers to build secure, reliable, and scalable products with speed. It sets the long-range technical direction for our technology ecosystem, driving simplification, accelerating modernization, and codifying best-practice architecture into reusable golden paths and automation. As part of the team overseeing broad technology transformation, this leader will shape the Services Technology Team’s evolution in how it designs, integrates, and operates its technology at scale, ensuring that the right way to build becomes the fastest and safest way to build.

Responsibilities

Define and own the Services target architecture, modernization strategy, cloud-native transformation roadmap and multi-year technical strategy.
Lead and develop the Core Services Architecture team (cross-cutting technical domain architects + strategists).
Create and maintain golden paths, reference architectures, platform engineering standards, IaC modules, and policy-as-code guardrails.
Establish cross-team alignment mechanisms; drive consistency without centralized review boards.
Translate Enterprise Technology principles into developer-friendly patterns and automated controls for Services teams while enabling AI-ready and data-centric architectures across the portfolio.
Partner with Engineering and Product executives to ensure architecture supports business outcomes, real-time processing, scale, reliability, and speed.
Drive platform consolidation, simplification, and technology lifecycle management across Services.
Provide architectural leadership for high-impact, irreversible, or multi-platform decisions.
Coach and empower Product/Platform Architects across Services; build a strong architecture community.
Represent Services architecture in executive forums and influence enterprise-level technology direction.

Requirements

Proven experience in large-scale engineering or architecture leadership roles; deep background in cloud-native distributed systems, container platforms, and modern runtime environments.
Track record defining and delivering target architecture and modernization at global scale (1,000+ engineers).
Strong expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), microservices, distributed and event-drive architectures, enterprise data platforms, identity, security and integration patterns.
Demonstrated ability to build golden paths, platform patterns, IaC modules, and automation-based guardrails.
Demonstrated success influencing engineering and product leaders without relying on hierarchy.
Experience operating in a federated architecture model with embedded architects and decentralized engineering teams.
Exceptional systems thinking with the ability to connect infrastructure, application, data, security, and AI platform strategies into a cohesive technology ecosystem.
Bias for pragmatic, developer-centric solutions over theoretical or bureaucratic approaches.
Ability to attract, develop, and retain top-tier architecture talent.

Skills

Cloud-native distributed systems
Container platforms
Modern runtime environments
Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Microservices
Distributed architectures
Event-driven architectures
Enterprise data platforms
Identity
Security
Integration patterns
Golden paths
Platform patterns
IaC modules
Automation-based guardrails
Systems thinking
AI platform strategies
Data-centric architectures

Experience Level

Senior Vice President

Benefits

Insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
Flexible spending account and health savings account
Paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time
25 days of vacation time
5 personal days
10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
401k with a best-in-class company match
Deferred compensation for eligible roles
Fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
Eligibility for tuition reimbursement

About the Company

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Everyone wants easier ways to pay; we invent them. Checkout lines are slow; we speed them along. Merchants want more sales; we give them data and insights. People need financial access; we connect them. Corporate purchasing is complicated; we make it simple. Commuters are busy; we speed them on their way. Governments need greater efficiencies; we help create them. Small businesses are virtual; we give them access to a world of buyers. Retailers want to fight fraud; we provide the tools.

Equal Opportunity

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role.
In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.