Lead Middleware 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

Lead Middleware Architect

Overview:

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Infrastructure Design Engineering is a team of System 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.

Infrastructure Design is engaged from the beginning of the analysis and design phase to work with the application team(s) and other critical teams within Mastercard to ensure that the completed infrastructure and application architecture aligns with MasterCard’s security, scalability and availability standards.

Infrastructure Design's primary deliverable is the TAD (Technical Architecture Document) which details the infrastructure design for the application, platform or system.

This job requires experience in Internet fundamentals related to web servers, application servers, database servers, on-prem and off-prem Cloud, Internet and Cloud security as well as other internet technologies.

This job actively performs designing and delivering Internet infrastructure solutions that satisfy program,  product, service and application requirements.

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 generate the highest level of system requirements, based on the given requirements and other constraints?

Can you ensure that this set of high level requirements is consistent, complete, correct, and operationally defined?



Role

Generating requirements, together with other architects, engineers, application team(s) and user(s), to determine 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 to be provided as it is evolving.

Ensuring that all architectural products and products with architectural input are maintained in the most current state and never allowed to become obsolete.

Resolve internet architectural and operational problems impacting infrastructure and product availability and performance globally.

Research and evaluate new technology for possible deployment in MasterCard’s internet infrastructure.

Will assume total accountability for ongoing regional projects as assigned; including responsibility for planning; time and cost control; resource utilization and implementation as a Lead Architect.

Implement, manage and support internet infrastructure components while leveraging current standards and best practices.

Perform problem diagnosis; performance tuning; capacity planning and configuration management for MasterCard internet components.

Assure system stability and future compatibility by monitoring production execution of all relevant systems.



All About You

Overall 9-14 years of career experience into relevant Technologies

Thorough knowledge and understanding of network, operating system principles and web middleware.

Thorough knowledge in one or more core functions related to internet infrastructure design and/or web administration.

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.


Lead the team by taking ownership and providing guidance from time to time

Corporate Security Responsibility

Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

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.