Lead Solution Architect

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

Lead Solution Architect

Overview

We are looking for a solution architect to join an award-winning team with a proven track record of combining data science techniques with an intimate knowledge of payments data to aid Financial Institutions in their fight against money laundering and fraud. Headquartered in The City of London, we craft bespoke services that help our clients gain an understanding of the underlying criminal behaviour that drives financial crime, empowering them to take action.

As part of the Architecture function, your role will focus on creating and maintaining architectural frameworks, understanding Product requirements and translating them in designs for the Engineering teams, presenting solution requirements to Platform Architecture. You will ensure the designs meet Mastercard technology and security standards, and will present them to Architecture & Technology design reviews. You will have an active role in assessing architectural changes and new technologies. Your role will be global, designing global products and how these will be deployed regionally.

Role

Draft architectures that follow design principles, and discuss them with other technical and non-technical stakeholders (Engineering, Platform, Product, Data Science, etc).

Ensure compliance of solution designs to Mastercard Technology and Security standards and policies.

Support closely the Engineering Team to progress software through review.

Collaborate with Engineering and Data Science teams to design and implement MLOps pipelines and feature derivation workflows that enable scalable, secure, and reliable deployment of machine learning models into production.

Work closely with platform architects to ensure appropriate infrastructure sizing, deployment strategies, and alignment with enterprise standards for performance, resilience, and cost-efficiency.

Define and maintain API specifications.

Assist with architectural design assessments for changes and evolution of FCS products.

Assist with technology assessments, software selections, and architectural evaluations to ensure alignment with business objectives and technical requirements.

Circulate your architectural designs across cross-functional team leads to support estimations and development processes.

Design to ensure resilience and reliability of services.

Take an active role to improve the customer experience of an entire set of services/applications sold as products or bundled services.

Drive the architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies.

Address emerging technical concerns, and recommend innovations to enhance the market-readiness of specific solutions.

Apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests.

Present solution designs in review architecture meetings and drive resolutions to enterprise-wide challenges and regulatory needs.

Develop understanding of end-to-end technical architecture and dependency systems.

Design to ensure optimal performance and resilience of products.

The role is hybrid, based in central London, and the expectation is that you attend the office according to Mastercard policy, including team days, which are currently on Monday and Thursday.

All About You

First and foremost, you enjoy designing products to solve real, pressing problems for your customers. You enjoy working in a team, and have an interest in data science and how advanced algorithms may be deployed as product offerings. You are curious and want to understand how new architectures and technologies can add value to FCS products.

• 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.