Platform Architect

• What are your top 3 required technical skills?

JK: Infrastructure design experience, middleware experience, and load balancers.

• What level of competency is required? (Foundational, Intermediate, or Advanced)

JK: Intermediate to Advanced for the Sr role

• What are a couple of desired/nice to have skills?

JK: Soft skills, ability to speak directly with customers and add value. Scripting language experience and work ethic.

• What soft skills would you like to see in a candidate?

JK: Presentation skills, common skillsets to be able to drive design calls and ensure standards are followed. Assertiveness is a plus.

Overview


The Digital Platform Architecture Infrastructure Design Engineering team is looking for a candidate who can help us solve problems, plan, and design the footprint of our systems, and lead Mastercard in definition of standards and best practices.


Infrastructure Design at Mastercard is a team of Platform 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. Our team is engaged from the beginning of the analysis and design phase to work with the application teams and other critical teams within Mastercard to ensure the completed infrastructure and application architecture aligns with Mastercard's security, scalability, reliability, and availability standards.
• Are you passionate about systems architecture, and ensuring the set of high-level requirements is consistent, complete, correct, and operationally defined?
• Would you like to build mission critical middleware infrastructure?
• Do you have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation and demonstrate the ability to drive results?
• Are you passionate about delivering quality?


Then... we would love to hear from you!


Major Accountabilities for this role:
• Responsible for gathering requirements, conducting infrastructural analysis, and producing robust designs that adhere to approved Mastercard technologies, and ensuring the design meets all Mastercard's technology and security policies.
• Responsible for meeting with peers, engineers, application team(s) and user(s), to determine that all the high-level requirements have been met.
• Responsible for generating products such as Technical Architecture Documents, technical memos, logical flows, and models to keep the users, architects, and the engineers constantly up to date and in agreement on the architecture and infrastructure layout of an application, system, or platform.
• Responsible for ensuring that all architectural products and products with architectural input are maintained in the most current state and never allowed to become obsolete.
• Responsible for implementing, managing, and supporting application infrastructure components while leveraging current standards and best practices.
• In charge of resolving internet architectural and operational problems impacting infrastructure & product availability and performance globally.
• May contribute to the definition of new standards.
• May contribute to researching and evaluating new technology for possible deployment in Mastercard's internet infrastructure.
• May contribute to ongoing regional projects as assigned; including responsibility for planning; time and cost control; resource utilization and implementation.
• May contribute to incident/problem diagnosis and root cause analysis.
• May provide input into performance tuning; capacity planning and configuration management for Mastercard components.
• Assure system stability and future compatibility by monitoring production execution of all relevant systems.