Senior Specialist, Technical Architect

• Works with solution architect and product specialists to recommend new needs-based solutions & bundles to customers to address key customer pain points
• Closely coordinate with product specialists to understand product functional capabilities and technical integration requirements
• Defines a locally relevant and globally scalable solution design based on Existing Mastercard and partner 3rd party assets
• Understand clients' needs and current technological stack
• Accesses and leverage data through various internal platforms to provide insights for key business objectives
• Map technical specifications of the proposed solution to the client architecture
• Provides techno-functional support in pre-sales narrative development and client conversations
• Leads Pre – scoping, pre-sales technical discovery and mapping to client environment
• Closely coordinate with TAMs or TCs to ensure that post-sales handover is smooth
• Provide internal intel to the SA on what is ready and roadmap timelines from a technology perspective
• Identifies, readies and manages the local system integrators required to roll-out the new solutions/products in the market
• Bring technology related budget discussions in collaboration with finance, to SA and squad team problem solving
• Collaborate with the appropriate client teams to develop integration methodology of the new solution in the client environment
• Manage handover to the implementation teams of MA and clients to ensure that the right technical integration roadmap has been laid out
• Address technical concerns, ideas, and suggestions

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or Management Information Systems or equivalent combination of relevant experience and education
• Operational /technical background within the payments and financial services industries
• Ability to access data through internal platforms, write queries and interpret data and generate insights
• Prior Implementation, product management experience in payments domain platforms like Issuer processing, acquirer processing products is an advantage
• Prior technical/integration experience with payment ecosystem players (Merchants, PSP, Loyalty Platforms, Gateway's, Acquirers & Commerce Providers)
• Experience in product development and/or business analysis
• Knowledge of techniques for requirements capture and specification and the ability to balance tactical commercial needs against the needs of strategic Product & architecture
• Understanding of APIs or working in new product development/innovation departments
• Prior knowledge of Mastercard Products and Services is a plus
• Problem solving, product documentation, and project management skills.

Prior knowledge of Mastercard Products and Services is a plus