Lead, Platform Architect (Infrastructure Design Engineering)

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, Platform Architect (Infrastructure Design Engineering)

Description:

IDE CoP Platform Architect

· IDE CoP (Infrastructure Design Engineering Community of Practice) was formed out of a need to bring our growing Infrastructure Design teams back into alignment with standards, policies, best practices and define where the knowledge base of our role is best suited in the future and beyond. IDE CoP helps the rest of IDE to understand new tools and technologies and continue to work closely with peer technical teams. We look for ways to optimize and automate where possible and drive architectural and engineering principles. IDE CoP members are selected from current experienced Mastercard IDE's who use their extensive knowledge and experience to guide and mentor IDE and seek ways to help enhance the ability and understanding of the rest of IDE.

Responsibilities:

• Oversight, communication, and enforcement of IDE standards and best practices through collaboration, documentation, and training.

• Collaborate with technical partner teams to ensure IDE standards are aligned with current direction and a framework in place for future updates to the standards.

• Provide oversight to the larger Infrastructure Design team on new design solutions, standards, and patterns.

• Help develop new tools for IDE that increase efficiency and ability to perform their roles.

• Ensure that the strong knowledge that the IDE CoP members have is documented and shared with the broader IDE through mentoring, training, and updates to IDE knowledge base.

• Ensure that all IDEs across the various Programs and Service Delivery teams are applying the “Engineering Principles” into their designs, and their designs are consistent with IDE standards and best practices.

• Consult on complex initiatives and projects to develop and promote architecture that supports and enables business strategies and is in line with current ONE and Mastercard standards.

• Work with technical partner teams to help define future automation needs and opportunities.

• Ensure TADs follow standards and best practices and provide approvals or modifications to proposed designs.

• Creation, consolidation and updating documentation, standards, and processes.

• Ensure design solutions are consistent across all Programs and Service Delivery teams.

• Educate the broader IDE resources on how best to collaborate with application development teams and Biz Ops for any new requirements which are not defined in a standard architecture design document (TAD).

Duties:

• Develop and enforce internal IDE standards and Mastercard standards and best practices.

• Work with other internal technical teams (InfoSec/A&T/BizOps/etc.) to create and templatize new patterns for IDE to follow and use.

• Partner with the IDEA team to incorporate more automation into IDE workflow.

• Document and communicate new standards for IDE to follow.

• Attend and actively participate in mandatory meetings such as IDE Collab and TAD/NaaS Reviews.

• Help facilitate, coordinate and run the Engineering and Availability Reviews (E&AR) and associated reviews and pull requests.

• Monitor, review, provide feedback or approvals for pull requests for various Bitbucket repositories that support IDE or CoP efforts.

• Consult on complex or important projects to help drive scalable and secure solutions that fit Mastercard standards and best practices.

• Provide technical feedback to leadership to help leadership make an informed decision.

• Support other IDE by reviewing their designs, offering advice, and attending office hours meetings.

• Respond to escalation requests quickly and efficiently.

Hard job skills:

· 9-12 years of overall career experience into Engineering or a similar field

· Architecture Design: Proficiency in designing systems to follow standards and best practices that are in line with Mastercard security and architectural standards.

· Architecture Design (Cloud): Understanding cloud architecture fundamentals and concepts and ability to translate those into secure and reliable solutions that comply with Mastercard standards.

· Network Concepts: Understanding networking fundamentals.

· Security: Understand information security standards and best practices.

· Programming: Proficiency in Python, YAML, JSON, etc.

Soft job skills:

· Communication: Ability to communicate information effectively.

· Problem-solving: Ability to analyze problems and find solutions.

· Decision making: Ability to decide on a course of action based on experience and facts.

· Leadership: Ability to guide others to a common goal.

· Self-starter: Ability to work independently with confidence.

· Attention to detail: Possess an understanding that all details matter no matter how small.

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.