Description
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
Systems Platform Architect The Shared Components Service Delivery team is looking for a candidate whocan 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.
• Are you passionate about systems architecture, and ensuring the set of high-level requirements is consistent, complete, correct, and operationally defined?
• 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, conducting infrastructural analysis and producing robust designs that adhere to approved Mastercard technologies, and ensuring the design meets all Mastercard's technology and security policies.
• Responsible for meeting with peers, engineers, application team(s) and user(s), to determine that all 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 architecture and infrastructure layout of an application, system, or platform.
• Responsible for ensuring that all architectural products and products with architectural inputs are maintained in the most current state.
• In charge of resolving architectural and operational problems impacting infrastructure and product availability and performance globally.
• Leads and collaborates to achieve the definition of new standards.
• May assume lead and total accountability for ongoing regional projects as assigned; including responsibility for planning; time and cost control; resource utilization and implementation.
• May contribute to incident/problem diagnosis and root cause analysis.
Education (preferred):
Bachelor's degree in computer sciences, or Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
All About You
• Proven experience in infrastructure design and documentation with ability to design high-availability, resilient, and cost-optimized infrastructure solutions that meet business and compliance requirements
• Demonstrated knowledge of Kubernetes architecture and ecosystem including cluster connectivity, network and storage dependencies, and inter-service communication flows
• Strong knowledge of cloud and hybrid architectures
•Strong knowledge on networking and security fundamentals, including segmentation, routing and access control integration
• Working knowledge of load balancers and web application firewalls
• Working knowledge of cloud technologies
• Advanced knowledge of techniques or methodologies to achieve non-functional requirements like reliability, availability, resilience, performance, security.
• Strong collaboration and communications skills to work across platform, application, and security engineering teams
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.
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