Senior Platform Architect-2

Mastercard; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,600,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Platform Architect-2 to lead the design of internet infrastructure and platform architectures that support global services. The role requires collaboration with application teams and other stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and highly available solutions.

You will generate high-level requirements, produce architectural documents, and mentor teams across regions while ensuring artifacts stay current and effective.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of network, OS principles and web middleware.
• Expertise in internet infrastructure design and web administration concepts.
• Hands-on experience with load balancers and web application firewalls.
• Familiarity with databases and cloud platforms.
• Experience deploying infrastructure using YAML-based configurations.

Responsibilities

• Generate requirements with architects, engineers and users to ensure high level requirements are met.
• Create TADs, technical docs, flows and models to keep stakeholders aligned.
• Maintain architectural artifacts in current state and avoid obsolescence.
• Resolve internet architectural and operational problems affecting global infrastructure and product availability.
• Research new technologies for potential deployment in Mastercard’s internet infrastructure.
• Lead regional projects including planning, scheduling and resources.

Skills

Network fundamentals

Web middleware

Load balancers

Web application firewall

Cloud technologies

Database technologies

YAML deployments

Security awareness

Tools

Microsoft Visio

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

Senior Platform Architect-2

Overview

Infrastructure Design Services 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 Services 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 Services' 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 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 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 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
• 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.

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.