Senior Principal Data Architect - Finance Modernization

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 Principal Data Architect - Finance Modernization

Mastercard Overview

Mastercard is seeking talented professionals to join our team and contribute to our mission of connecting and powering an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere. Our ideal candidate thrives in a collaborative environment, embraces challenges, and is committed to achieving excellence. If you are ready to advance your career and be part of a forward-thinking company that values creativity, dedication, and professional growth, we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity with Mastercard.

Role Overview

Mastercard is on a journey to modernize and advance our Finance Technology landscape and architecture. As the Senior Principal Data Architect, you will lead the architecture design and development of end-to-end Finance infrastructure and capabilities. You will be responsible for the technology architecture of all finance systems, covering Billing, Financial Planning, Accounting, Settlement, Treasury, and Reporting and Analytics. You will collaborate with senior leaders across the organization to align finance technology architectural design with business objectives and customer needs. You will also drive the modernization of the finance infrastructure, leveraging cloud, data, and automation technologies to optimize performance, scalability, and security.

Responsibilities

As the Senior Principal Data Architect, you will be responsible for the following:
• Serve as the lead architect and oversee the technical vision and strategy, including the architecture, design, and development for Finance systems and applications
• Build scalable, secure, and resilient architecture aligned with business objectives and establish technical strategies and roadmaps. Partner across the enterprise to drive standards and frameworks.
• Drive the innovation and transformation of the finance technology portfolio, leveraging cloud, data, and automation technologies to enhance the customer experience, operational efficiency, and business agility. Perform architecture and cost analysis for internal, hybrid, and public cloud environments.
• Collaborate with engineering, data, application, and operations teams to ensure architectures meet performance, security, and operational needs. Collaborate with finance business stakeholders to understand the requirements, identify solutions, propose ideas, and provide technical thought leadership.
• Identify and implement new architectural patterns and methodologies, driving innovation and continuous improvement for performance and cost-efficiency.
• Drive the architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies.
• Simplify and improve the cost/benefit of a function/service/architecture strategy.
• Consult across teams and across program lines to identify synergies and reuse opportunities.
• Drive the overall systems/application architecture, create high level designs, and provide guidance to the engineering teams on low level designs.
• Directly contribute to and design holistic platform security posture, which includes proactively identifying security risks and implementing both risk mitigation plans and control functions.
• Stay informed on emerging trends and evaluate and implement Finance industry best practices to keep Mastercard on pace with industry advancements.

All About You

• Experience in leading the initiation and formation of large global projects including architecting, estimating, planning, implementing and operating as well as selecting talent resources across multiple geographies and functions.
• Extensive experience with data lifecycle management, including ingestion, ETL, modeling, and governance, within highly regulated environments.
• Deep understanding of data modeling, data warehousing, and data lake architectures, tools and technologies.
• Demonstrated thought leadership and cross-functional influence and partnership demonstrated by a successful track record of enabling business through these technical decisions.
• Skills to succinctly articulate architecture patterns of complex systems, with business and technical implications, to executive and c