Vanguard

Mobile Digital Payments Architect

Vanguard  •  United States (Remote)  •  2 days ago
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Job Description

Core Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the architecture strategy and product roadmap for digital payments products and platforms, ensuring alignment with businessobjectives, enterprise architecture standards, and technology roadmaps.
  • Design scalable, secure, and resilient solutions supporting mobile payment capabilities, including digital wallets (Apple Pay, Google Pay), debit card payment experiences, account funding and transfers, card controls, tokenization services, and push provisioning capabilities.
  • Partner with Product Managers, Engineering Leads, UX teams, Security, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into architecture designs, technical roadmaps, and delivery plans.
  • Collaborate with enterprise architects, product teams, technology experts, and vendors to ensure solutions align with enterprise standards, target architectures, and long-term technology strategies.
  • Lead integration architecture across payment processors, sponsor banks, card networks, digital wallet providers, and other third-party financial technology partners.
  • Serve as the senior technical authority for assigned products and platforms, assessing risks, resolving complex technical challenges, and guiding teams through architecture and implementation decisions.
  • Lead architecture reviews, proof-of-concept initiatives, feasibility studies, and technology evaluations tovalidatesolutions, reduce implementation risk, and inform build-versus-buy decisions.
  • Establish and promote mobile architecture standards, design patterns, API strategies, engineering best practices, and governance processes to ensure quality, security, and consistency across teams.
  • Track emerging technologies, payment innovations, and industry trends toidentifyopportunities for modernization, innovation, and competitive advantage.
  • Prepare and present architecture recommendations, product documentation, technology roadmaps, and business cases to technical stakeholders and executive leadership.
  • Providetechnical leadership, mentoring, and architectural guidance across multiple delivery teams, fostering engineering excellence and organizational growth.Contribute hands-on when needed through design reviews, prototype development, reference implementations, special projects, and otherduties asassigned.

Qualifications

  • Minimum of eight years related work experience, with at least three years of technology architect experience.
  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Strong experience designing and delivering mobile applications for iOS and Android platforms.

  • Deep understanding of digital payments architecture, payment processing, and money movement systems.

  • Experience with mobile application frameworks such as React Native, Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, or equivalent technologies.

  • Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, encryption, tokenization, and fraud prevention concepts.

  • Experience leading architecture governance, solution reviews, and cross-functional technical initiatives.

  • Hands-on experience with digital wallet integrations, including Apple Pay and Google Pay.

  • Experience with payment processors, core banking platforms, sponsor bank integrations, or card processing ecosystems such asMarqeta, Fiserv, Visa DPS, or similar platforms.

  • Experience with AWS cloud services and cloud-native architecture patterns.

  • Experience developing architecture roadmaps and presenting technology strategies to senior leadership.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.

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About Vanguard

Join us as we celebrate 50 years of empowering our 50 million investor-owners.* Since our founding in 1975, we’ve been on a mission to help investors achieve their goals.

With no outside shareholders to answer to, we make decisions—including keeping investing costs as low as possible—with our clients’ needs in mind. Whether you’re investing for your first house, college for your kids, or a comfortable retirement, you can be confident we’re on your side.

We are a community that thinks—and feels—differently about investing. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests. Let’s celebrate 50 years together.

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*As of January 2025

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Valley Forge, PA
Year Founded
1975
Website
vanguard.com
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