Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. 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.

Title and Summary

Lead, Platform Architect

Overview

The Digital Service Delivery team is looking for a candidate who can help us solve problems, plan and design the footprint of our systems, and lead Mastercard in definition of standards and best practices.

Infrastructure Design at Mastercard is a team of Technology Architects responsible for the analysis and design of the infrastructure framework to fit the application, platform or system needs in-line with Mastercard's operational standards and engineering principles. Our team is engaged from the beginning of the analysis and design phase to work with the application teams and other critical teams within Mastercard to ensure the completed infrastructure and application architecture aligns with Mastercard’s security, scalability, reliability, and availability standards.

•\tAre you passionate about systems architecture, and ensuring the set of high-level requirements is consistent, complete, correct, and operationally defined?
•\tWould you like to build mission critical middleware infrastructure?
•\tDo you have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation and demonstrate the ability to drive results?
•\tAre you passionate about delivering quality?

Then… we would love to hear from you!

Major Accountabilities for this role:
•\tResponsible for gathering requirements, together with other architects, engineers, application team(s) and user(s), to determine that all of the high-level requirements have been met.
•\tResponsible for generating products such as Technical Architecture Documents, technical memos, logical flows, and models to keep the users, architects, and the engineers constantly up to date and in agreement on the architecture of application, system or platform.
•\tEnsuring that all architectural products and products with architectural input are maintained in the most current state and never allowed to become obsolete.
•\tIn charge of resolving internet architectural and operational problems impacting infrastructure and product availability and performance globally.
•\tResponsible for researching and evaluating new technology for possible deployment in Mastercard’s internet infrastructure.
•\tMay assume lead and total accountability for ongoing regional projects as assigned; including responsibility for planning; time and cost control; resource utilization and implementation.
•\tImplement, manage, and support internet infrastructure components while leveraging current standards and best practices.
•\tPerform problem diagnosis; performance tuning; capacity planning and configuration management for MasterCard internet components.
•\tAssure system stability and future compatibility by monitoring production execution of all relevant systems.

Experiences
•\tGains exposure to systems architecture, new technologies, industry standards and best practices.
•\tParticipates in global technology initiatives for system and platform architecture
•\tGains exposure to business resource groups and global communities
•\tDemonstrated initiative in building relationships with colleagues from multiple areas within Mastercard
•\tExposure to internal resources and tools

Education (preferred):
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Sciences, or Information Systems, or equivalent experience.

All About You
•\tAdvanced knowledge of Web application architecture and project delivery.
•\tAdvanced knowledge of load balancers and web application firewalls
•\tAdvanced knowledge of network and operating system principles
•\tVast knowledge of middleware technologies (Web Servers, Application Servers, Queue Managers, Messaging, Caching)
•\tWorking knowledge of Database technologies.
•\tWorking knowledge of cloud technologies
•\tWorking knowledge of how the Java Virtual Machine works, how Garbage collection works.
•\tWorking knowledge of techniques or methodologies to achieve non-functional requirements like reliability, availability, resilience, performance, security.
•\tKnowledge of Access Management tools like ISAM Webseal or Siteminder is a plus.

Skills/Abilities:
•\tDisplays leadership and initiative.
•\tDetailed oriented and customer obsessed.
•\tStrong verbal and written communication skills
•\tAbility to multi-task and prioritize efforts.
•\tAbility to pick up new technologies at a quick pace and learn on-the-go
•\tAbility to work with team members located in multiple geographies
•\tDisplays excellent collaborative skills with cross-functional teams.
•\tProvide positive customer service to internal business partners.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

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, and

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