Lead Platform Architect

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Lead Platform Architect

Overview
Infrastructure Design at Mastercard is a team of Technology Architects and Engineers responsible for the analysis and design of the infrastructure framework to fit the application, platform or system needs in-line with Mastercards operational standards and 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.

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

Then we would love to hear from you!

Major Accountabilities for this role:
Responsible 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.
Responsible 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 next gen architecture of application, system or platform.
Ensuring that all architectural products and products with architectural input are maintained in the most current state and never allowed to become obsolete.
In charge of resolving internet architectural and operational problems impacting infrastructure and product availability and performance globally.
Responsible for researching and evaluating new technology for possible deployment in Mastercard s internet infrastructure.
May assume lead and total accountability for ongoing regional projects as assigned; including responsibility for planning; time and cost control; resource utilization and implementation.
Implement, manage and support internet infrastructure components while leveraging current standards and best practices.
Perform problem diagnosis; performance tuning; capacity planning and configuration management for MasterCard internet components.
Assure system stability and future compatibility by monitoring production execution of all relevant systems.

Experiences
Gains exposure to systems architecture, new technologies, industry standards and best practices.
Participates in global technology initiatives for system and platform architecture
Gains exposure to business resource groups and global communities
Demonstrated initiative in building relationships with colleagues from multiple areas within Mastercard
Exposure to internal resources and tools

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

All About You
Advanced knowledge of Internet architecture and project delivery.
Intermediate knowledge of how the Java Virtual Machine works, how Garbage collection works.
Vast knowledge of middleware technologies & cloud technologies (Web Servers, Application Servers, Queue Managers, Messaging, Caching, AWS, Azure)
Working knowledge of Databases.
Advanced knowledge of load balancers and web application firewalls
Advanced knowledge of network and operating system principles
Working knowledge of reliability and
Knowledge of Access Management tools like ISAM Webseal or Siteminder is a plus.

Skills/Abilities:
Detailed oriented and customer obsessed.
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Ability to multi-task and prioritize efforts.
Ability to pick up new technologies at a quick pace and learn on-the-go
Ability to work with team members located in multiple geographies
Displays excellent collaborative skills with cross-functional teams.
Provide 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.