Senior Platform Architect

About the role

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Platform Architect to lead the design and delivery of internet infrastructure solutions that support its global payment platforms. You will work closely with application teams, engineers, and stakeholders to ensure architectures meet security, availability, and performance standards.

Key responsibilities

• Generate high‑level system requirements in collaboration with architects, engineers, development teams and users.
• Resolve internet architectural and operational problems affecting global product availability and performance.
• Produce and maintain technical architecture documents, logical flows and models to keep all parties aligned.
• Research, evaluate and recommend new technologies for Mastercard’s infrastructure.
• Lead regional projects, managing planning, time, cost, resources and implementation.

Required profile

• Deep knowledge of network, operating system principles and web architecture.
• Strong experience with load balancers, firewall policies, failover and disaster recovery techniques.
• Familiarity with cloud design and architecture.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and ability to work in a matrix‑based, geographically distributed team.

Required skills

• Microsoft Visio for middleware infrastructure design.
• Load balancer configuration and management.
• Firewall policy design and implementation.
• Failover strategy and disaster recovery routing.
• Cloud architecture concepts.