Lead hands-on architecture for complex, high-value payments engagements. Translate commercial and client requirements into scalable API-driven solutions, align product/platform integrations, support sales and delivery, build repeatable patterns and playbooks, and integrate fintech and technology partners to accelerate time-to-market while maintaining architectural quality and alignment with global standards.
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, Technical Solutions Architect
The Customer Solutions Center (CSC) serves as the strategic hub for translating Mastercard's global capabilities into differentiated market-relevant solutions.
The Vice President, Technical Solutions Architect is a hands-on architect who leads the design of complex, high-impact client solutions.
Operating at the intersection of sales, product, and technology, this role brings together Mastercard's platforms, data, and ecosystem partnerships to deliver scalable, commercially viable architectures across priority clients and segments.
The position reports to the SVP, Customer Solutions Center, Australasia.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end technical solutioning for complex, high-value client engagements
- Lead hands-on architecture design, ensuring solutions are feasible, scalable, and commercially viable
- Translate client, market, and commercial requirements into practical technical architectures and integration models
- Work directly with Sales and Solution teams to shape deals and improve conversion
- Define and articulate technology-led value propositions aligned to customer outcomes
- Design integrated solutions across products, platforms, APIs, and partner ecosystems
- Provide technical leadership in client discussions (workshops, discovery, solution shaping)
- Drive delivery readiness by aligning architecture, integration approach, and implementation pathways
- Build repeatable technical patterns, playbooks, and reference architectures
- Accelerate time-to-market through simplification and standardisation of solution design
- Identify and integrate external partners (fintechs, platforms, technology providers)
- Maintain architectural quality, consistency, and alignment to global standards
- Stay ahead of technology and market trends to evolve solution capabilities
- Partner cross-functionally across Product, Technology, Sales, and Delivery teams
- Contribute to building and scaling a strong Technical Architecture capability in the region
All About You
- Strong experience in technical solutioning, architecture, or engineering roles, with a track record of designing and delivering complex solutions in payments, fintech, or technology environments
- Proven ability to operate in client-facing roles, leading technical discussions, shaping solutions, and translating business needs into executable architectures
- Deep understanding of modern payment ecosystems and technologies, including APIs, SDK's, digital payments, issuing/acquiring flows, and emerging fintech trends
- Hands-on expertise in API-driven architectures, integrations, and platform-based solutions, with the ability to connect technical design to commercial outcomes
- Demonstrated ability to design scalable, end-to-end solutions across multiple products, platforms, and partners
- Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to simplify complex technical challenges into practical, implementable solutions
- Solid commercial awareness, including the ability to align technical design to customer value, feasibility, and delivery outcomes
- Collaborative and cross-functional, with experience working across Sales, Product, Technology, and Delivery teams
- Ability to engage confidently with both technical teams and business stakeholders, bridging architecture and commercial discussions
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced, evolving environments, with a bias toward action and delivery
Join us to turn complex client needs into scalable, market-leading solutions-apply now.
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:
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, Technical Solutions Architect
The Customer Solutions Center (CSC) serves as the strategic hub for translating Mastercard's global capabilities into differentiated market-relevant solutions.
The Vice President, Technical Solutions Architect is a hands-on architect who leads the design of complex, high-impact client solutions.
Operating at the intersection of sales, product, and technology, this role brings together Mastercard's platforms, data, and ecosystem partnerships to deliver scalable, commercially viable architectures across priority clients and segments.
The position reports to the SVP, Customer Solutions Center, Australasia.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end technical solutioning for complex, high-value client engagements
- Lead hands-on architecture design, ensuring solutions are feasible, scalable, and commercially viable
- Translate client, market, and commercial requirements into practical technical architectures and integration models
- Work directly with Sales and Solution teams to shape deals and improve conversion
- Define and articulate technology-led value propositions aligned to customer outcomes
- Design integrated solutions across products, platforms, APIs, and partner ecosystems
- Provide technical leadership in client discussions (workshops, discovery, solution shaping)
- Drive delivery readiness by aligning architecture, integration approach, and implementation pathways
- Build repeatable technical patterns, playbooks, and reference architectures
- Accelerate time-to-market through simplification and standardisation of solution design
- Identify and integrate external partners (fintechs, platforms, technology providers)
- Maintain architectural quality, consistency, and alignment to global standards
- Stay ahead of technology and market trends to evolve solution capabilities
- Partner cross-functionally across Product, Technology, Sales, and Delivery teams
- Contribute to building and scaling a strong Technical Architecture capability in the region
All About You
- Strong experience in technical solutioning, architecture, or engineering roles, with a track record of designing and delivering complex solutions in payments, fintech, or technology environments
- Proven ability to operate in client-facing roles, leading technical discussions, shaping solutions, and translating business needs into executable architectures
- Deep understanding of modern payment ecosystems and technologies, including APIs, SDK's, digital payments, issuing/acquiring flows, and emerging fintech trends
- Hands-on expertise in API-driven architectures, integrations, and platform-based solutions, with the ability to connect technical design to commercial outcomes
- Demonstrated ability to design scalable, end-to-end solutions across multiple products, platforms, and partners
- Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to simplify complex technical challenges into practical, implementable solutions
- Solid commercial awareness, including the ability to align technical design to customer value, feasibility, and delivery outcomes
- Collaborative and cross-functional, with experience working across Sales, Product, Technology, and Delivery teams
- Ability to engage confidently with both technical teams and business stakeholders, bridging architecture and commercial discussions
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced, evolving environments, with a bias toward action and delivery
Join us to turn complex client needs into scalable, market-leading solutions-apply now.
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.
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