Company

MasterCard

Description

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Job Title

Product/Solutions Architect - Payment Network

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to power an inclusive digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making payment transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.

Overview

Mastercard’s 'Network Products' team is a group of thought leaders with an uncanny bias for action and an unrelenting focus on growth. The 'Product Architecture' unit (within 'Network Products'), owns the product's architectural vision and has responsibility to deliver product architectural solutions, that drive growth of our 'Switching' and 'Network Solutions' capabilities.

Product Architects work closely with Product Managers and Regional Teams to understand business goals and functional requirements, and create high level System Design(aka Architectural Blueprint). This is an "Individual Contributor" role demanding strong technical, design, communication and negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

This is an "Individual Contributor" role working as a 'Product Architect'.

Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Regional Solutions Teams to bring their ideas to life. Provide early opinion on technical feasibility and viability of product ideas.
Establish and advocate the Architecture Principles supporting Decoupling, Scale, Distributed processing, Microservices, Domain Driven Design, Performance, Security, Event Driven Architecture etc.
Define the high level Logical Architecture(aka System Design) of the product, aligning to architecture principles. Ability to build consensus on the architectural solutions.
For new Product offerings, contribute to Epic elaboration, define use-cases, evaluate trade-offs, honour domain principles, produce Architecture artifacts (C4 Model) and System Design documentation, identify and define service interactions and produce flow level architecture etc.
Ideate, analyse and architect enhancements to our Network that will delight our customers.
Deep engagement with the Dependent Domains to ensure seamless integration adhering to the Domain Driven Design principles.
Close collaboration with Engineering, Service architects, Dev Managers to ensure adherence of Product Architecture Principles.
Support customer-level, market and region-level engagements for addressing key opportunities (and threats).

All About You

Strong technical knowledge and demonstrated experience in Software Architecture and System Design.
Proven history of designing enterprise-grade applications following Domain Driven Design, Microservices, Event Driven Systems, Cloud Native principles, API design, Eventual Consistency etc.
Exposure to Cloud, Messaging middleware's, Monitoring tools, Authentication/Authorization, gRPC, REST, Variety of Persistence and Caching technologies, Frontend stack etc.
Exposure to following technologies- Java, REST, SpringBoot, Kafka, NATS, gRPC, noSQL, Cassandra, Postgres, Redis, Prometheus, Grafana, React etc.
Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation and interpersonal skills.
Exhibit sound judgment and swift decision-making skills, strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Understanding of payments industry, payment services and *Switching* is a plus.

In the US, Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment 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. If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application 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.

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.

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