Senior Vice President, Services Enterprise Architecture

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, 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.

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.

The SVP must be a pragmatic strategist, a strong systems thinker, and an influential leader capable of shaping architecture at scale through clarity, patterns, and automation.

The SVP of Services Enterprise Architecture will:

* 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.

All About You

* Proven experience in large-scale engineering or architecture leadership roles; deep background in cloud-native distributed systems, container platforms, and modern…