Principal Systems Platform Architect

Our Purpose

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Principal Systems Platform Architect

Overview
Leads ideation, design, and development of new and existing Mastercard system and platform technologies and environment, either cloud or on-premise, to fulfill internal and external customer requirements
Develops complex system and platform problem resolutions as well as software and hardware solutions to address technical issues
Manages platform lifecycle management to ensure internal and external customer needs are met and products are maximized
Designs holistic platform security posture, which includes proactively identifying security risks and implementing both risk mitigation plans and control functions
Designs and implements process improvement efforts to identify and test opportunities for automation and/or reduction in time to deployment
Implements of troubleshooting guides and technical assistance processes and guides development programmers to resolve issues with new and existing software
Provides technical thought leadership for architecting new platform capabilities and establishing technical strategies and roadmaps
Mentors, coaches, and conducts technical trainings to develop talent across the organization
JOB SPECIFIC EXPERIENCES
Experience leading complex cross-functional network domain initiatives (i.e., network cloud connectivity), providing guidance and establishing consistency
Experience supporting development of architectural standards within global technology domains and sub-domains to ensure consistency
Demonstrated success at selecting and evaluating new technology that will adhere to innovative industry trends and practices
Experience contributing to intellectual property to be applied to project work and shared with internal colleagues
Expected to act as an technical subject matter expert, working to advance core engineering quality by improving existing processes and identifying new tools and technologies
Experience designing and implementing complex systems using SOA and Microservices patterns.
Prior experience designing Payments platforms/solutions, ideally within SPEI network.
BROADENING EXPERIENCES
Extensive experience cultivating strategic internal and external relationships to facilitate cross-functional planning and execution
Extensive experience on solutions implemented in Cloud (AWS preferred), On-Premise as well as Hybrid, environments
Experience communicating updates and complex architecture issues to senior management
Experience creating and delivering presentations for internal learning, training events, and/or business discussions
Experience motivating and providing regular feedback to team members; resolves performance issues

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.