Principal, Platform Architecture

**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**

Principal, Platform Architecture

Overview:
This job actively performs designing and delivering internet infrastructure solutions that satisfy member, product, service and backbone requirements.
Have you ever worked with Microsoft Visio to design middleware infrastructure from the ground up?
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
- Generating requirements, together with other architects, engineers, development team(s) and user(s), to determine that all the high-level requirements have been met.
- Resolve internet architectural and operational problems impacting infrastructure and product availability and performance globally.
- Ensuring that all architectural products maintained in the most current state and never allowed to become obsolete.
- Research and evaluate new technology for possible deployment in MasterCard’s 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.

All About You
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of network, operating system principles and web architecture
- Thorough knowledge in core functions related to internet infrastructure design and web administration.
- Deep understanding on Load Balancer, firewall policies and configurations.
- Well verse with Failover strategy and current design and security best practices
- 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.
- Awareness on Cloud design and architecture
- Deep understanding on Disaster failover techniques and routing strategy
- 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.

**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.