Senior Vice President, Services Enterprise Architecture

Mastercard
New York
Full timeFunction: Executive & General ManagementSkills: ["Systems thinking","Pragmatic strategy","Influencing leaders","Leadership","Talent development"]

Define and scale the architectural foundation for Mastercard Services, setting long-range direction for how services products are built, integrated, and operated. Lead a high-impact team of cross-cutting architects to create golden paths, guardrails, and modernization strategies—codified through automation, policy-as-code, and reusable patterns. Partner with Product and Engineering to accelerate cloud-forward transformation while improving security, reliability, and delivery speed across a portfolio of services.

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Senior Vice President, Services Enterprise Architecture

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Job Summary

Define and scale the architectural foundation for Mastercard Services, setting long-range direction for how services products are built, integrated, and operated. Lead a high-impact team of cross-cutting architects to create golden paths, guardrails, and modernization strategies—codified through automation, policy-as-code, and reusable patterns. Partner with Product and Engineering to accelerate cloud-forward transformation while improving security, reliability, and delivery speed across a portfolio of services.
Location: New York
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key 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 of cross-cutting domain architects and strategists.
  • •Create and maintain golden paths, reference architectures, platform engineering standards, IaC modules, and policy-as-code guardrails.
  • •Establish cross-team alignment mechanisms to drive consistency without centralized review boards.
  • •Partner with Engineering and Product executives and provide executive architectural leadership to support scalable, secure, reliable real-time processing and delivery outcomes.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPaid LeaveLife InsuranceDisability Insurance

Key Requirements

  • •Proven experience leading large-scale engineering or architecture with deep expertise in cloud-native distributed systems, container platforms, and modern runtimes.
  • •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-driven architectures, and enterprise data, identity, security, and integration patterns.
  • •Demonstrated ability to create golden paths, platform patterns, IaC modules, and automation-based guardrails.
  • •Experience operating in a federated architecture model with embedded architects and decentralized engineering teams.
Skills:Systems thinkingPragmatic strategyInfluencing leadersLeadershipTalent development
Tech Stack:AWSAzureGCPMicroservicesDistributed architecturesEvent-driven architecturesContainer platformsIaCPolicy-as-codeIdentitySecurityEnterprise data platformsAI-ready architecturesModern runtime environments

Company Brief

Mastercard
Mastercard is a global payments and technology company that processes transactions, provides fraud prevention and data services, and builds payment infrastructure for consumers, businesses, merchants and governments across 200+ countries.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Purchase, New York, United States
Founded: 1966
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