Senior Vice President, Services Enterprise Architecture

Role

The SVP of Services Enterprise Architecture is the senior technology leader responsible for defining, evolving, and scaling the architectural foundation for Mastercard’s Services organization. This role sets the long-range technical direction for how the Services organization builds, integrates, and operates its portfolio of products. It ensures our technology ecosystem is simple, scalable, secure, and aligned to enterprise principles without compromising delivery velocity. This leader will lead a lean, high-leverage team of cross-cutting architects who define target states, golden paths, guardrails, and modernization strategies, and operates the architecture system (patterns, policy-as-code, alignment mechanisms) that enables thousands of engineers across the globe to move quickly and safely. They’ll partner closely with Product and Engineering executives across Services and collaborate with Enterprise Architecture & Technology Leadership to drive simplification and cloud-forward modernization across the Services ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 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-driven 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.

Benefits

• 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