Lead Software Architect - Payments Network

Lead Software Architect – Payments Network

Lead Software Architect in Mastercard’s Network Products team will design end‑to‑end product architecture for switching and network services. The role is an individual contributor that works with product managers, regional solution teams, and engineering groups to define architectural direction, validate feasibility, and drive innovation throughout the product lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers, business stakeholders, and regional solution teams to define and refine the product vision, goals, and success criteria.
• Provide early architectural assessments of product ideas, evaluating technical feasibility, architectural fit, and long‑term scalability.
• Establish and advocate architecture principles supporting decoupling, scale, distributed processing, microservices, domain‑driven design, performance, security, and event‑driven architecture.
• Defi...