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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
Lead Systems Platform Architect OverviewInfrastructure Design Services is a team of Technology Architects and Engineers responsible for architecting, designing, and optimizing scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure solutions that support business applications and services. This role plays a critical part in shaping the technical foundation of the organization by delivering well-documented, high-performing, and cost-effective infrastructure designs across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. 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.
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 ensure that this set of high level requirements is consistent, complete, correct, and operationally defined? 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!
Role
• Design and document infrastructure solutions that meet business, security, and compliance requirements. ermine 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
• Ensuring that all architectural products and products with architectural input are maintained in the most current state
All About You
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of network, operating system principles and compute and storage technologies.
• Experience with a security-first infrastructure design including encryption, IAM, and network segmentation
• Advanced knowledge of load balancers and web application firewalls
• Working knowledge of cloud technologies
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture, containerized workloads, and orchestration platforms
• Knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture principles and Network Micro-segmentation.
• Experience working with YAML based deployments
• Familiarity with continuous delivery pipelines, CI'CD tools, and GitOps workflows
• 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.
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.
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