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
Vice President, Platform Architecture
Overview
Responsible for teams/talent that provides technical program delivery and thought leadership for assigned areas of the organization, build and cultivate strong internal and external customer relationships to establish engagement models for the team, to ensure delivery is in alignment with expectationsExpert with cross-functional collaboration to evolve and deliver synergies across Commercial and New Payment Flows (CNPF). Partner to oversee both strategy and technology and conduct proactive analyses to drive tech strategic improvements to drive business impact and optimization and reliability.RoleResponsible for leading/consulting with application leadership to improve craftmanship of products and drive alignment with architectural standards, security compliance and business strategyLeads integration with multiple teams/business factors to deliver on competing strategies that promote transformational approaches in growing the business and deliver superior solutions at MastercardConsultant and Pro-Active Advisor - Acts as a trusted advisor for executive leadership and designated program groups to partner with other leaders and experts to anticipate, address, and resolve multi-faceted business delivery and serve as escalation point for infrastructure needsBuilds & Leverages partners to identifies and develop new influential partnerships with high strategic value, builds consensus with partners to adopt platform standards, compliance and new and existing business operations and opportunitiesOversees process development improvement initiatives, identifying efficiencies and opportunities for automation and/or reduction in time to deploymentPerforms financial planning, forecasting, and budget tracking to reduce total cost of ownership and allocate resources efficientlySets functional strategy, goals, and objectives, and establishes KPIs and metrics for measuring performance in support of the overall IT strategyLeader of leaders across multiple teams. Reinforces leadership accountability, culture and talent readiness in support of the overarching strategy while strengthening our people practices (development, retention, and practicing fair and equitable processes in all people decisions (i.e. recruitment, promotions, recognition, performance management).Fostering a work environment that allows teams to openly share ideas, take risks and make mistakes without fear and providing in-the-moment feedback and coaching to enhance team performance, by supporting team members in owning their careers, continuous growth through projects, mentorship, volunteering and or stretch assignment
All About You
15+ years of leading people in culture creation (e.g., articulating values, leading by example, hiring cultural fit, creating traditions like recognitions, team building, etc.)10+ years of experience leading and delivering enterprise IT initiatives and projectsDemonstrated ability to perform the adaptive leadership skills to empower self-organization, innovation and ownership in support of high performing/impact talentLead and enhance global teams and highly performing resources, proven and referenceable track record of leading and driving large initiatives to successExperienced change agent that drives change through metrics, KPI insights and experienceProven track record of leading delivery and implementation teams through highly visible complex implementation and developmentExcellent communication skills with distinction in driving discussions with executives as a strategic partner who can translate business problems into solutionsAffinity for collaboration, demonstrated ability to collaborate with peers across internal business organizationsProven ability to influence across the business to deliver objectives and drive business strategyAdvanced understanding of program management, software development (SDLC) practices and a strong understanding of agile methodologies and lifecyclesStrong understanding of the importance of stakeholder and communication leadershipDemonstrated skill and experience in conducting executive, difficult and critical conversationsEvidence of successfully leading complex, cross-functional platform system delivery initiatives
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.
