Platform Architect 2

Mastercard; Rathcoole; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard seeks a Platform Architect 2 to drive infrastructure architecture aligned with security, scalability and availability standards. You will collaborate with application teams and stakeholders from multiple regions to deliver robust infrastructure designs.

The role requires expertise in web servers, middleware and cloud technologies, with a focus on high availability and security in a global payments environment.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of network, OS principles and web middleware.
• Strong understanding of load balancers and web application firewalls.
• Experience with databases and cloud technologies.
• Familiarity with YAML-based deployments.

Responsibilities

• Generate requirements with architects, engineers, and users to ensure high-level requirements are met.
• Produce TADs, technical documents, flows, and models to keep stakeholders aligned.
• Maintain architectural artifacts and ensure they stay up-to-date.
• Resolve internet architectural and operational problems impacting infrastructure and product availability globally.
• Research and evaluate new technologies for MasterCard’s infrastructure.
• Lead regional projects with planning, schedule and resource control.
• Implement, manage and support internet infrastructure components per standards.
• Diagnose problems, tune performance, plan capacity and manage configurations.
• Ensure system stability and future compatibility by monitoring production.

Skills

Network fundamentals

Web middleware

Load balancers

Web application firewalls

Database technologies

Cloud technologies

High energy

Initiative

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Learn quickly

Zero Trust

YAML deployments

Tools

Visio

DrawIO

Job 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

Platform Architect 2

Overview

Infrastructure Design Engineering is a team of Technology Architects and Engineers 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 principles.

Infrastructure Design Engineering is engaged from the beginning of the analysis and design phase to work with the application team(s) and other critical teams within Mastercard to ensure that the completed infrastructure and application architecture aligns with MasterCard’s security, scalability and availability standards.

Infrastructure Design Engineering primary deliverable is the TAD (Technical Architecture Document) which details the infrastructure design for the application, platform or system.

This job requires experience in internet fundamentals related to web servers, application servers, internet security and other internet technologies.

This job actively performs designing and delivering 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 interface with the user(s), application team(s), etc., and all other stakeholders in order to determine their (evolving) needs and requirements?

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, 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 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
• Advanced knowledge of load balancers and web application firewalls
• 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.

Key Skills:

• 1 - 3 years experiences for Senior role
• Infrastructure Architecture & Solution Design
• Networking fundamentals, Protocols & Application routing
• Understanding of Public and Private Cloud
• Knowledge of Middleware technologies (Load Balancers (F5), Microservices, DNS, Application Servers)
• Troubleshooting (Networking)
• Good communication skills (Representing designs during reviews)
• Requirements Gathering (Application requirements, Non-functional requirements (NFR))

Nice to have skills:

• Application Architecture
• Knowledge of Application Security
• Knowledge of Zero Trust Principles
• Participation in Security Reviews, Architecture Reviews (ARB), Peer Reviews

Tooling:

• Visio or DrawIO

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.