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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.\nTitle and Summary\nVice President, Product DevelopmentThe 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. The Product Architect then drives the creation of product definition and architecture artifacts that guide engineering teams toward scalable, secure, high-quality solutions.Key Responsibilities\n1. Business Requirement Translation & Product Requirements Definition\nEngage with business stakeholders to understand problem statements, desired outcomes, use cases, and constraints.\nAnalyse high-level business needs to identify functional requirements, non-functional requirements, edge cases, and dependencies.\nProduce Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) including:\nDetailed functional requirements\nDefined user personas and use cases\nAcceptance criteria and success metrics\nProcess flows and early conceptual diagrams\nEnsure the PRD provides sufficient clarity and traceability for downstream design and architecture.\nPartner with product managers to align the PRD with strategic and commercial objectives.\n2. Architecture & Technical Strategy\nTranslate PRD-defined requirements into end-to-end product architecture.\nProduce high-quality architectural deliverables, such as:\nSystem architecture diagrams\nLogical and physical data models\nIntegration patterns, event models, and system interactions\nDefine architectural principles and guardrails for engineering teams.\n3. Product Definition & Solution Design\nDevelop detailed solution definitions derived from PRD requirements, including:\nSequence diagrams and inter-service flows\nDomain models and bounded contexts\nAPI specifications (OpenAPI/Swagger)\nUser journey → system interaction mappings\nData contracts and schemas\nConduct technical option evaluations, trade-off analyses, and feasibility assessments.\nContribute to roadmap shaping by identifying architectural investments and dependencies.\n4. Engineering Collaboration & Technical Leadership\nWork closely with engineering teams to ensure solution delivery aligns with the PRD and architectural design.\nLead design reviews, clarify requirements, and provide guidance throughout implementation.\nBuild technical prototypes or PoCs when needed to validate complex or emerging concepts.\nMaintain clear, accessible documentation for engineering, QA, and cross-functional partners.\n5. Governance, Quality, and Risk Management\nEnsure architectural compliance with enterprise standards, security, privacy, and regulatory obligations.\nProduce governance-focused artifacts such as:\nThreat models\nData lineage and retention definitions\nPerformance, scalability, and observability requirements\nIdentify architectural and requirement-related risks early; propose mitigation strategies.\n6. Cross-Functional Influence & Communication\nAct as a trusted advisor for product, engineering, operations, and business leadership.\nCommunicate architectural decisions and trade-offs to non-technical audiences with clarity.\nDevelop reusable templates for PRDs, architecture documents, diagrams, and technical patterns.\nTypical Artifacts Produced\nThe Product Architect may deliver or own the following artifacts:\nProduct Definition Artifacts\nProduct Requirements Document (PRD)\nUse-case definitions\nProcess flows and conceptual interaction diagrams\nFunctional & non-functional requirement specifications\nArchitecture & Design Artifacts\nSystem architecture diagrams\nSequence diagrams\nState machine diagrams\nDomain models & DDD bounded contexts\nLogical/physical data models & ERDs\nData flow diagrams\nAPI specifications & interface contracts\nEvent schemas & event-driven architecture maps\nGovernance & Quality Artifacts\nThreat models\nSecurity design 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