Senior Platform Architect

Mastercard; Helena (MT); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Platform Architect to lead the design and evolution of secure, scalable enterprise infrastructure that powers critical services. The role spans on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments, requiring collaboration with Engineering, Security, and Product teams to deliver resilient platforms.

Ideal candidates bring deep expertise in enterprise architecture, cloud technologies, and automation, with a track record of driving platform modernization and operational

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in enterprise infrastructure architecture across on-premises, hybrid and cloud.
• Advanced knowledge of networking, security, and modern infrastructure patterns.
• Experience designing and supporting enterprise platforms using VMware and cloud stacks (AWS/AZURE/GCP).
• Strong automation background with IaC tooling (Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD integration.
• Proven ability to lead complex projects and influence cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and delivery of scalable, secure infrastructure across environments.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Security, Network, and Product teams to align infrastructure with strategy.
• Drive modernization initiatives focusing on automation, IaC, and platform standardization.
• Develop standards, roadmaps, and documentation; mentor engineers on best practices.
• Ensure compliance, availability, disaster recovery, and performance for mission-critical systems.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud platforms

Infrastructure automation

IaC (Terraform, Ansible)

CI/CD practices

Security architecture

Zero Trust

Stakeholder communication

Tools

VMware

AWS

Azure

GCP

Terraform

Ansible

Git/Bitbucket

Jenkins

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

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview

The Infrastructure Engineering team is looking for a Senior Platform Architect to lead the design and evolution of secure, scalable, and resilient enterprise infrastructure platforms that power Mastercard's critical business services. The ideal candidate is a strategic technology leader with deep expertise in enterprise architecture, infrastructure engineering, and cloud technologies. They are highly collaborative, intellectually curious, and passionate about solving complex technical challenges while driving innovation, operational excellence, and platform modernization. This individual excels at partnering across engineering, security, and product organizations to deliver scalable solutions that enable business growth and provide exceptional customer experiences.

Role

• Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of highly available, scalable, and secure enterprise infrastructure solutions across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.


• Partner with Engineering, Network, Security, Cloud, Database, Middleware, Product, and Program Management teams to develop infrastructure solutions that support business and technology strategies.


• Drive infrastructure solution delivery from initial business engagement through architecture reviews, financial approvals, procurement, implementation, operational readiness, and production deployment.


• Design resilient networking, application delivery, and security architectures utilizing enterprise technologies including load balancing, web application firewalls, API gateways, and distributed infrastructure platforms.


• Lead infrastructure modernization initiatives focused on automation, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), platform standardization, performance optimization, resiliency, and operational excellence.


• Develop enterprise architecture standards, technical roadmaps, and infrastructure documentation while mentoring engineering teams and promoting engineering best practices.


• Ensure infrastructure solutions meet stringent requirements for security, compliance, availability, scalability, disaster recovery, and performance across mission-critical platforms.

All About You

Essential Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Deep expertise in enterprise infrastructure architecture across data center, hybrid cloud, and distributed computing environments.


• Advanced knowledge of enterprise networking, application delivery, and infrastructure security, including Zero Trust principles and modern network architectures.


• Experience designing and supporting enterprise platforms utilizing VMware, cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), load balancing, web application firewalls, API gateways, and distributed infrastructure.


• Strong expertise in infrastructure automation, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD integration, and configuration management using tools such as Git, Bitbucket, and Jenkins.


• Demonstrated ability to architect and deliver highly available, resilient, and secure infrastructure solutions while collaborating effectively across cross-functional engineering and business teams.


• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence technical and executive stakeholders.

Desirable or Additional Capabilities

• Expertise in infrastructure performance engineering, including capacity planning, scalability testing, and performance optimization.


• Advanced experience creating technical architecture documentation and executive presentations using Microsoft Visio.


• Experience supporting mission-critical financial services platforms with stringent availability, security, resiliency, and regulatory compliance requirements.

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.