Mastercard
Senior Vice President - CNPF Engineering Architecture & Shared Services
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The Senior Vice President will oversee the product architecture and design for CNPF, drive technology strategies, ensure alignment across functions, and lead initiatives in the payments landscape.
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:
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.
Top Skills
Blockchain
Cloud Technologies
DevOps
Distributed Ledgers
Microservices
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