Platform Architect

**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**

Platform Architect

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
- 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.
- 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 middleware.
- Thorough knowledge in one or more core functions related to internet infrastructure design and/or web administration
- Working knowledge of Database technologies.
- Working knowledge of cloud technologies
- 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.
- Knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture principles and Network Micro-segmentation.
- Experience working with YAML based deployments

Skills/Abilities:

- Displays leadership and initiative.
- 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.