Systems 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.

Job Title

Systems Platform Architect (Infrastructure Design)

Systems Web Platform Architect:
Web platform architect designs and delivers complex and robust internet infrastructure solutions that satisfy customer and product requirements in line with PCI standards.

Web platform architect leads Feature decomposition meetings and provides technical direction and solutions to senior management.

Can you generate the highest level of system requirements, based on the given requirements and other constraints?

Can you ensure that this set of high level requirements is consistent, complete, correct, and operationally defined?

Role
- Ensuring that all architectural products and products with architectural input are maintained in the most current state and never allowed to become obsolete.
- Resolve internet architectural and operational problems impacting infrastructure and product availability and performance globally.
- Research and evaluate new technology for possible deployment in MasterCard’s internet infrastructure.
- Have 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.

All About You
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of network, operating system principles and web middle-ware.
- Thorough knowledge in one or more core functions related to internet infrastructure design and/or web administration.
- Must be high-energy, proactive, detail-oriented and able to function under pressure in an independent environment.
- Must have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation and demonstrate the ability to drive results.
- Strong communication skills both verbal and written and strong relationship and collaborative skills and organizational skills with the ability to work as a member of matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team.
- Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities is critical.

COVID-19 Considerations

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.