Senior Vice President – CNPF Engineering Architecture & Shared Services

Our Purpose

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.

Title and Summary

Senior Vice President – CNPF Engineering Architecture & Shared Services

Job Description Summary
The Commercial & New Payment Flows (CNPF) organization drives innovative products and solutions for our customers, unlocking payment and data flows beyond consumer cards across key business areas covering Commercial and B2B, Small and Medium Enterprises, and Transfer Solutions. Products and solutions supported by the business include commercial cards, B2B, accounts payable and receivables, non-carded bill payments, and disbursements and remittances.
The Senior Vice President – CNPF Engineering Architecture & Shared Services has overall responsibility for CNPF product architecture and design, driving technology strategies that help shape and power the commercial payments landscape. The role reports to CNPF Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

Role
• Governance for existing and new CNPF product architecture and design
• Drive and maintain product capabilities mapping and utilize to influence Product & Engineering investments
• Rationalize existing state and make / drive recommendations for refactoring, application retirement and modernization
• Develop and enhance common components and reference implementations that should be used across the CNPF Engineering Estate
• Support peer Engineering leaders with key platform and architecture decisions
• Manage direct and matrix reports including Principal Architects & Shared Services team
• Serve as the CNPF Architecture representative to Mastercard-wide enterprise architecture functions
• Ensure Mastercard architecture standards are inclusive of CNPF business and technology imperatives
• Develop strong internal executive-level partnerships to ensure cross-functional alignment and execute on shared initiatives.
• Lead by example to embed the Mastercard Way principles across the group

All About You
• Extended experience as Senior Architect at a multinational financial services firm (15+ years)
• Deep knowledge of the Payments industry, particularly account to account payments, ledgering, transaction switching, and card-based payments
• Deep familiarity with microservices, event driven architecture, containerization, and commonly used design patterns for highly scaled and available transaction processing
• Deep familiarity with Cloud technologies and Dev Ops best practices
• Experience with common use cases and infrastructure to enable use of analytics and AI
• Familiarity with prospective technologies likely to be used in the payments space (e.g. blockchain/distributed ledgers)
• Ability to communicate across various audiences to influence, inspire, and drive decision-making
• Highly collaborative leadership style leading to increased employee engagement

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 [email protected] 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.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: 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 and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 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; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.