# Solution Architect (Managing Consultant, Innovation Consulting)

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Paris
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard is seeking a Solution Architect (Managing Consultant, Innovation Consulting) to play a critical role in enabling successful delivery of solutions for clients. This senior, client-facing role is based in Paris, France, and partners closely with Mastercard customers, delivery teams, and product stakeholders to define, document, and communicate robust, scalable solution architectures.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Lead architectural engagement with Mastercard clients, driving discovery, requirements definition, and solution design for complex implementations

- Define end-to-end solution architectures for projects involving Mastercard products, client-led initiatives, and Mastercard Engage partner solutions

- Act as the primary architectural authority for Deploy-led engagements, guiding engineering teams through implementation and ensuring adherence to the agreed design

- Drive architectural decision-making, balancing client requirements, Mastercard standards, security controls, scalability, and long-term maintainability

- Produce high-quality architectural artefacts, including solution diagrams, architecture decision records, integration designs, and technical documentation

- Communicate architecture clearly and effectively to diverse audiences, including client architects, developers, QA teams, product managers, and senior stakeholders

- Identify technical risks early and work collaboratively with delivery teams to resolve challenges and ensure successful outcomes

**Requirements:**

- Proven, advanced experience designing and delivering solution architectures within the banking, payments, or broader financial services industry

- Strong experience working directly with clients to elicit requirements, manage ambiguity, and drive alignment on architectural decisions

- Demonstrated ability to define and communicate complex, distributed system architectures clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

- Proven collaboration with cross-functional teams including architects, developers, QA, product managers, and delivery leads in a matrixed environment

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence presenting and defending architectural approaches at senior levels

**Desirable Skills:**

- Experience designing solutions deployed on public cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

- Cloud architecture certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, or GCP Professional Architect) are a strong advantage

- Experience with API-driven, microservices-based, or large-scale distributed systems

- Familiarity with payment ecosystems, fintech integrations, or Mastercard products and platforms

**Corporate Security Responsibility:**

- Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices

- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed

- Report any suspected information security violation or breach

- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines

## Skills

### Required
- solution architecture
- banking
- financial services
- leadership
- communication
- stakeholder engagement

### Nice to have
- cloud architecture
- public cloud platforms
- Azure
- AWS
- Google Cloud Platform
- API-driven systems
- microservices-based systems
- distributed systems
- payment ecosystems
- fintech integrations
- Mastercard products

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