Product Architect(Switching)

**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 Architect(Switching)

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 responsiblity to deliver product architectural solutions, that drive growth story of our 'Switching' and 'Network Services' capabilities.

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

Role

This is an "Individual Contributor" role working as a 'Product Architect'.
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers, 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 for new Product offerings, Epics & Use-cases, produce System Design documentation & Architecture artifacts, covering domain principles, service interactions, trade-offs and flow level architecture etc.
- Ideate, analyze 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.
- Exposure to Cloud, Messaging middlewares, 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.

**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.