Senior Platform Architect - Global Internet Infrastructure

Mastercard; Malahide; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Platform Architect to lead the design and delivery of scalable internet infrastructure aligned with security and availability standards. You will collaborate with application teams, user groups, and cross-functional engineers to translate high-level requirements into concrete architectural artifacts.

The role emphasizes producing technical documents and models, maintaining current architectural products, and guiding regional projects with planning, budgeting, and

Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of network fundamentals and web middleware.
• Strong understanding of operating system concepts.
• Experience with internet infrastructure design and web administration.

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 principles

Operating system principles

Web middleware

Job description

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Platform Architect to lead the design and delivery of scalable internet infrastructure aligned with security and availability standards. You will collaborate with application teams, user groups, and cross-functional engineers to translate high-level requirements into concrete architectural artifacts.

The role emphasizes producing technical documents and models, maintaining current architectural products, and guiding regional projects with planning, budgeting, and