Lead Platform Architect — Internet Infrastructure

Mastercard; Greystones; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Platform Architect to join Infrastructure Design Services. You will analyse infrastructure needs, design scalable internet architectures, and produce Technical Architecture Documents that align with security and availability standards.

You will generate requirements with engineers and users, maintain architectural artifacts, and lead regional projects when assigned, ensuring ongoing performance and global reach of Mastercard internet infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Must be high-energy, proactive, detail-oriented and able to function under pressure in an independent environment.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Generating requirements, together with other architects, engineers, application team(s) and user(s), to determine that all of the high level requirements have been met.
• Generating products such as TADs, technical documents, logical flows, and models to keep the user(s), architects and the engineers constantly up to date and in agreement on the application, system or platform to be provided as it is evolving.
• 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.

Skills

Network fundamentals

Web middleware

Operating systems principles

High energy

Tools

Microsoft Visio

Job description

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Platform Architect to join Infrastructure Design Services. You will analyse infrastructure needs, design scalable internet architectures, and produce Technical Architecture Documents that align with security and availability standards.

You will generate requirements with engineers and users, maintain architectural artifacts, and lead regional projects when assigned, ensuring ongoing performance and global reach of Mastercard internet infrastructure.