Manager, Product Architect
Mastercard1 day ago
Lisbon, PortugalStaff+
Responsibilities
- Support technical product ideas through ideation, discovery, feasibility assessment, and validation.
- Develop research proposals, technical designs, and experiments for emerging authentication concepts.
- Design and build proof-of-concepts to validate functionality, scalability, security, and performance.
- Define conceptual and high-level architectures for authentication products and platforms.
- Evaluate industry, technology, and regulatory changes and translate them into strategy and roadmap recommendations.
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, design trade-offs, and patentable concepts.
- Partner with Legal and Intellectual Property teams on invention disclosures and patent filings.
- Advise product and engineering teams during development and delivery and provide architectural guidance for scalable implementations.
- Help teams address complex technical challenges involving authentication, security, and integration.
Requirements
- Proven experience in product architecture, solution architecture, or software engineering.
- Strong background in authentication, identity, security, or fraud-related technologies.
- Hands-on experience delivering research-driven initiatives, prototypes, or proof-of-concepts.
- Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and assess their applicability to real-world products.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Knowledge of authentication standards, biometrics, multifactor authentication, and risk-based authentication approaches.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills, including the ability to influence without formal authority.
- An advanced degree is preferred.
Benefits
- Work on globally impactful products used by millions of consumers and businesses.
- Participate in a culture focused on innovation, curiosity, and continuous learning.
- Collaborate with talent across product, engineering, security, and research.
- Contribute to Mastercard’s long-term technology strategy and intellectual property portfolio.
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About Mastercard
Mastercard builds and operates a global payments network used by banks, merchants, fintechs, and governments, offering card processing, real-time payments, tokenization, and fraud/risk services. It generates revenue from transaction processing and assessment/service fees across more than 200 countries and territories. Founded in 1966 and headquartered in Purchase, New York, Mastercard is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: MA).