Enterprise Architect
Arlington, VA

Job Description

Who is Mastercard?

We are the global technology company behind the world's fastest payments processing network. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless®. We ensure every employee has the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives. We believe as our company grows, so should you. We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities.

Job Title

Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect

Job Overview:

The primary role of an Enterprise Architect - This person works with both business and IT stakeholders, as well as with other Enterprise Architects, to support business alignment and optimization by combining each of the enterprise architecture viewpoints to specify solutions for strategic business opportunities. This role will develop an integrated view of the enterprise solutions using a repeatable approach, cohesive framework, and available industry standard techniques. The primary focus is the identification and planning of common solution capabilities, development of common solution patterns, and development of enterprise solution specifications for particular opportunities.

Major Accountabilities:

Build a Business Capabilities based Technology strategy. Build and maintain strong ongoing relationships with key business partners, IT partners, and portfolio managers associated with each assigned business segment. Continually communicate and build consensus on enterprise architecture with both IT and business partners. Provide technical perspective, alignment, and collaboration with business partners on new business efforts. Partner with product owners and portfolio managers to understand business vision and identify future platform capability that needs to drive planning efforts. Contribute to the effort to incrementally develop a fully documented enterprise architecture and continually refresh it. Support the necessary ongoing efforts to incorporate the framework and documented enterprise solution architecture into organizational culture and processes. Research, identify and validate business value of new and emerging technology trends and capabilities in the context of the enterprise solution architecture. Apply a structured architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the enterprise. Assemble solutions from existing and planned business and technology (foundation) capabilities, identifying gaps as necessary. Translate business needs to technical capabilities for inclusion in platform roadmaps. Communicate available and planned business/technology capabilities and identify capability gaps. Promote & converge solutions to common technology foundation. Partner with Integration Architects for planning of current/future foundation capabilities and for developing target state architectures for business solutions.

Education (preferred):

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or Business.
* Advanced degrees desired

Knowledge / Experience (preferred):

* Must have experience with Business Capabilities based Technology strategy.
* Demonstrated competency applying architectural frameworks and development methods.
* Advanced experience in multiple verticals like Banking, Financial Services, Payments, Insurance, Retail, Technology etc.
* Intermediate experience in Enterprise Architecture capacity within a large company
* Proven experience developing enterprise solution architecture
* Strength in all domains across the enterprise with deep expertise in 2 or more technology domains
* Experience leveraging a variety of architectural frameworks and tools to develop and promote architecture.
* Experience driving strategic alignment of IT with the business.
* Experience creating a common architecture vision with IT and line of business leaders.
* Experience defining processes for IT governance.
* Demonstrated ability to develop technology strategies that support IT and business strategies

Skills / Abilities:

* Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills
* Previous exposure to service-oriented architecture preferred.
* Ability to effectively communicate abstract concepts in verbal, written, and visual forms
* Ability to translate between technical and business language and concepts
* A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance
* The ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies
* Ability to effectively collaborate in a geographically distributed environment
* Ability to develop a strategic direction and lead in areas that have a high degree of ambiguity
* Ability to build strong relationships with a variety of business and IT stakeholders at all levels
* Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus
* Strong situational analysis and decision making abilities
* Demonstrated thought leadership on major strategic or transformational efforts

Working Conditions:

* Limited travel
* Typically Monday - Friday

Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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