Product 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
Product Architect
Director - Product Architect
Overview
The Digital Authentication Service team owns and develops Mastercard's cardholder / consumer Authentication Program and is responsible for developing and maintaining the platform to host innovative, best-in-class methods for authenticating cardholders/consumers in support of a range of use-cases including e-commerce checkouts. As a Product Architect within the team, you will lead the detailed definition and design of authentication product capabilities and experiences for our Authentication Service in support of our product backlog.
Role• Work with Product Managers and other relevant regional stakeholders to discover high-level business requirements for new product capabilities • Decompose business requirements into detailed product definitions, requirements and designs that drive the product roadmap• Work with Product Managers, PM-Ts, UX designers and Engineering Architects to elaborate product definitions and designs to validate assumptions and design approaches • Create product definition and design artefacts including product requirements documents, product architecture designs, API Swagger specifications, sequence diagrams, process flows, data models, and others as appropriate • Consult across stakeholders to review product requirement and design documents, and acceptance criteria• Share and explain product requirements and design artefacts with PM-T and engineering leads in line with our operating model and timelines • Act as the voice of the customer to ensure product designs remain customer focused• Dive deep into the underlying product and technology domains to stay ahead of the curve• Ensure deliverables are in line with business requirements• Balance trade-offs between competing interests using judgement, data, and experience• Tackle hard problems in new spaces, bringing clarity to ambiguity and complexity
All About You• Can deliver high quality products requirements and design artefacts in a high growth environment where priorities shift rapidly• Demonstrates ability to operate with complete independence and autonomy• Extensive experience developing technical product definitions, requirements and designs ideally in an e-commerce / cards-based technology company • Experience with best-in-class cardholder/consumer authentication methods and technologies • Ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases• Can communicate to executives, peers, and staff with impact, eloquence, and authenticity
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.