Lead Payments Network Architect & System Designer

Mastercard; Bogotá; Híbrido; COP 180.000.000 - 300.000.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Mastercard is seeking a Lead Software Architect for the Payments Network in Bogotá. You will shape end-to-end product architecture across switching and network services, guiding ideation, discovery, execution and retrospection to keep designs aligned with evolving business needs and tech landscapes.

This individual contributor role requires strong technical, design, and negotiation skills, with emphasis on scalability, resilience, and security at network scale.

Formación

• Strong hands-on knowledge and experience in software architecture and system design for complex, enterprise-scale systems.
• Proven history of designing enterprise-grade applications following Domain Driven Design, Microservices, Event Driven Systems, Cloud Native principles, API design, Eventual Consistency etc.
• Exposure to Cloud, Messaging middlewares, Monitoring tools, Authentication/Authorization, gRPC, REST, Variety of Persistence and Caching technologies, Frontend stack, AI/ML, LLM, Deep learning etc.
• Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation and interpersonal skills.
• Strong ability to distill complex systems into clear, structured documentation.

Responsabilidades

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Business stakeholders, and Regional Solution teams to define and refine the product vision, goals and success criteria.
• Provide early architectural assessments of product ideas, evaluating Technical feasibility, Architectural fit and Long-term scalability and operability
• Establish and advocate the Architecture Principles supporting Decoupling, Scale, Distributed processing, Microservices, Domain Driven Design, Performance, Security, Event Driven Architecture etc.
• Define the high level Logical Architecture (aka System Design) of the product, aligning to architecture principles. Ability to build consensus on the architectural solutions.
• For new Product offerings, Epics & Use-cases, produce System Design documentation & Architecture artifacts, covering domain principles, service interactions, trade-offs and flow level architecture etc.
• Engage deeply with dependent and adjacent domains to ensure seamless integration while preserving clear domain boundaries and ownership.
• Work closely with Engineering teams, Service Architects and Development Managers to ensure implementation adheres to approved product architecture principles and designs.
• Ideate, analyze and architect enhancements to our Network that will delight our customers.
• Support customer-level, market-level and regional engagements by providing architectural insight to address strategic opportunities, risks and technical challenges.
• Ability to Clearly articulate architectural trade-offs and design rationale to diverse audiences, including business, technology and leadership stakeholders.

Conocimientos

Software architecture

System design

Domain Driven Design

Microservices

Cloud native

API design

Event driven systems

Java

REST

gRPC

Herramientas

Kafka

NATS

Postgres

Redis

React

Descripción del empleo

Mastercard is seeking a Lead Software Architect for the Payments Network in Bogotá. You will shape end-to-end product architecture across switching and network services, guiding ideation, discovery, execution and retrospection to keep designs aligned with evolving business needs and tech landscapes.

This individual contributor role requires strong technical, design, and negotiation skills, with emphasis on scalability, resilience, and security at network scale.