# Vice President, Product Development

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: London, England
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Product Architect is responsible for defining, documenting, and communicating the technical and functional vision for one or more product areas.

This role acts as a bridge between business strategy and engineering execution, beginning with the transformation of high-level business requirements into clear, actionable product requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

- Business Requirement Translation & Product Requirements Definition: Engage with business stakeholders to understand problem statements, desired outcomes, use cases, and constraints.

- Analyse high-level business needs to identify functional requirements, non-functional requirements, edge cases, and dependencies.

- Produce Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) including detailed functional requirements, defined user personas and use cases, acceptance criteria and success metrics, process flows and early conceptual diagrams.

- Ensure the PRD provides sufficient clarity and traceability for downstream design and architecture.

- Partner with product managers to align the PRD with strategic and commercial objectives.

- Architecture & Technical Strategy: Translate PRD-defined requirements into end-to-end product architecture.

- Produce high-quality architectural deliverables, such as system architecture diagrams, logical and physical data models, integration patterns, event models, and system interactions.

- Define architectural principles and guardrails for engineering teams.

- Product Definition & Solution Design: Develop detailed solution definitions derived from PRD requirements, including sequence diagrams and inter-service flows, domain models and bounded contexts, API specifications (OpenAPI/Swagger), user journey → system interaction mappings, data contracts and schemas.

- Conduct technical option evaluations, trade-off analyses, and feasibility assessments.

- Contribute to roadmap shaping by identifying architectural investments and dependencies.

- Engineering Collaboration & Technical Leadership: Work closely with engineering teams to ensure solution delivery aligns with the PRD and architectural design.

- Lead design reviews, clarify requirements, and provide guidance throughout implementation.

- Build technical prototypes or PoCs when needed to validate complex or emerging concepts.

- Maintain clear, accessible documentation for engineering, QA, and cross-functional partners.

- Governance, Quality, and Risk Management: Ensure architectural compliance with enterprise standards, security, privacy, and regulatory obligations.

- Produce governance-focused artifacts such as threat models, data lineage and retention definitions, performance, scalability, and observability requirements.

- Identify architectural and requirement-related risks early; propose mitigation strategies.

- Cross-Functional Influence & Communication: Act as a trusted advisor for product, engineering, operations, and business leadership.

- Communicate architectural decisions and trade-offs to non-technical audiences with clarity.

- Develop reusable templates for PRDs, architecture documents, diagrams, and technical patterns.

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## Skills

### Required
- software architecture
- solution design
- senior engineering
- communication
- stakeholder engagement

### Nice to have
- Azure
- AWS
- GCP
- cloud architectures
- multi-team collaboration

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