Senior System 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

Senior System Platform Architect

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.


Overview
This Senior Systems Platform Architect role will be dedicated to Sustainable Technology efforts to improve the carbon efficiency of our distributed compute and storage infrastructure. Your expertise in platform architecture will accelerate our ability to engage internal customers to assess and execute on driving efficiency through physical to virtual migration, consolidation, decommissioning, and the application of power management settings. Additionally, you will support the evaluation of various hardware configurations to determine the most sustainable, carbon efficient platforms to meet business requirements.


Role
• Performs the programming and development processes for new and existing sustainable and efficient technologies for distributed compute & storage from conception to application, leading the most complex aspects
• Develops and implements efficiency & maintenance plans to address technical issues, and seeks opportunities for improvement and efficiency emissions reduction
• Leads complex initiatives and projects to develop and promote target architecture that supports and enables business strategies defined by Sustainable Technology program and related teams
• Supports holistic platform security posture which includes identifying risks, escalating potential concerns, and implementing both risk mitigation plans and control functions
• Establishes and improves policies, standards, guidelines, and design patterns, researching industry best practices across multiple technologies and business domains to support Net Zero by 2040 and other ESG goals
• Oversee progress of technical requirements for strategic initiatives related to efficiency, sustainability, and carbon reduction
• Coordinate implementation deliverables for strategic sustainability compliance objectives.

Skills
• Application Automation - Able to automate processes or service and deployment of applications across the organization including design, implement, test and improve on existing methods.
• Cloud Platforms - Has the ability to understand concepts and application design patterns to run in cloud, and maintains cloud computing services, ensuring reliability, security, and network optimization.
• Consulting & Strategic Judgement - Ability to identify, influence, and facilitate outcomes internally and externally by helping shape a viewpoint on how to respond to opportunities and facilitate execution of solution delivery, or engage relevant resources, or relationships for Mastercard
• Design Architecture - Able to design hardware and software components and their interfaces for improved design for energy and carbon efficiency. Applies understanding of systems integration for applications across networks, systems, and platforms.
• Enterprise Monitoring - Able to establish processes that allow for increased visibility and assessment of health, utilization, and efficiency across enterprise technology assets. Applies skills to design, automate, test and troubleshoot configurations to facilitate early warning of issues, failures and disruptions. Ability to use metrics to identify and execute against opportunities for increased platform energy and carbon efficiencies.
• Systems & Platform - Maintains platform systems through the implementation of appropriate solutions and maintenance of platforms through continuous improvement cycles

All About you
• Experience in assessing and actioning against opportunities to increase infrastructure efficiency
• Experience in implementing sustainability best practices in infrastructure
• Experience in implementing and improving the end-to-end decommissioning processes of physical servers
• Experience in assessing and implementing the consolidation of infrastructure for efficiency through technology refresh cycles
• Gains exposure to interfacing with business partners and explaining technical concepts
• Experience creating and delivering presentations for training events and/or business discussions
• Experience working with colleagues from other business units and markets
• Experience developing relationships and partnering with internal customers across development verticals to support system and platform sustainability initiatives
• Experience managing components of larger projects for a network initiative and developing an understanding of the importance of global consistency
• Experience resolving routine infrastructure architecture issues
• Demonstrates active engagement as a participant or in support of a global technology domain initiatives (e.g., providing input and contributing to discussions)
• Active member of business resource groups and global communities (e.g., Green Software Foundation, The Green Grid, iMasons Climate Accord, SustainableIT.org, Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, Tech Leadership Network)


• Application Automation - Able to automate processes or service and deployment of applications across the organization including design, implement, test and improve on existing methods.
• Cloud Platforms - Has the ability to understand concepts and application design patterns to run in cloud, and maintains cloud computing services, ensuring reliability, security, and network optimization.
• Consulting & Strategic Judgement - Ability to identify, influence, and facilitate outcomes internally and externally by helping shape a viewpoint on how to respond to opportunities and facilitate execution of solution delivery, or engage relevant resources, or relationships for Mastercard
• Design Architecture - Able to design hardware and software components and their interfaces for improved design for energy and carbon efficiency. Applies understanding of systems integration for applications across networks, systems, and platforms.
• Enterprise Monitoring - Able to establish processes that allow for increased visibility and assessment of health, utilization, and efficiency across enterprise technology assets. Applies skills to design, automate, test and troubleshoot configurations to facilitate early warning of issues, failures and disruptions. Ability to use metrics to identify and execute against opportunities for increased platform energy and carbon efficiencies.
• Systems & Platform - Maintains platform systems through the implementation of appropriate solutions and maintenance of platforms through continuous improvement cycles.

Mastercard is an inclusive equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.