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
Director, Digital Payments Solution Engineer
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
The goal of the Digital Partnership Solution Engineering team is to partner with key stakeholders in digital space, including device manufacturers, operating system providers, wallet service, including AI firms, agentic providers, startups, large issuers, digital wallets, merchants, acquirers, and payment service providers to execute Mastercard’s digital strategy, while identifying new business development and revenue generating opportunities. We aim to achieve this goal of defining new payment experiences through direct engagement with these partners, and by packaging solutions that leverage Mastercard’s assets, like Digital, Loyalty, Advisors, Security, Acceptance, and Processing solutions. This is a unique opportunity to join a highly motivated growing team, help build unique relevant solutions and shape the evolution of the payments industry, to create a world beyond plastic, with valued experiences for consumers and end users, while also enabling merchants to reach new consumers in ways not possible in the pre-digital world. We are looking for Engineers to join our Solutions Engineering Team, who can help build compelling and scalable payment and Agentic Commerce solutions with Mastercard’s flagship digital commerce product, Mastercard Agent Pay. The ideal candidate will be highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and excited by the challenge of balancing the needs of many diverse stakeholders.
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Role
The Director, Product Architect, Solution Engineering will be focused on defining Mastercard's strategy to enable access to digital credentials wherever consumers engage with the world for payments. This individual will drive components of Mastercard’s digital product suite from concept to market launch and scale across global markets by working with Digital Partners Define the Solution Strategy: Partner with Mastercard’s flagship digital commerce product business owners to define and evolve the solution strategy as the product moves from concept to market. Lead Technical Engagements: Own the end-to-end technical relationship with global digital partners, from early-stage ideation through to scaled deployment of payment solutions. Solution Design & Architecture: Translate complex partner requirements into robust, scalable, and secure solution architectures leveraging Mastercard’s different payments products suite and technology platforms. Partner Collaboration: Work closely with AI agents, digital wallets, and commerce platforms to co-create solutions that integrate Mastercard’s digital credentials and payment capabilities into new digital interfaces and consumer experiences. Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Operations, and Regional teams to ensure alignment on technical strategy, delivery timelines, and go-to-market execution. Prototype & Innovate: Partner with Mastercard’s prototyping and innovation teams to rapidly test and validate new payment use cases and interfaces. Commercial & Strategic Input: Support the development of commercial models, pricing strategies, and go-to-market plans by providing technical feasibility assessments and partner feedback. Global Coordination: Act as the central technical point of contact for regional digital teams, ensuring consistency in solution design and partner onboarding across markets. IP & Compliance: Identify opportunities for intellectual property creation and ensure all solutions comply with Mastercard’s data, security, and business model standards.
All About You
- High level of fluency in AI, including deep technology foundations and thorough industry awareness of payments.
- Awareness and understanding of Mastercard's key customers, partners, and external stakeholders in these areas, including Issuers, Payment Service Providers, Acquirers, Digital Wallet Operators, and Merchants.
- Strong experience and knowledge of the business drivers and technology of consumer payments, especially digital wallets, tokenization, and authentication, across global regions and markets.
