Senior Vice President, Services Enterprise Architecture

Senior Vice President, Services Enterprise Architecture

Overview
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.

• 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.

• 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.

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 View email address on decentrajobs.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.

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.