Platform Architect

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

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 The Distributed Platforms team is looking for Principal Platform Architect to own and develop a cohesive architecture across our various on-premise compute, storage and runtime products and services, along with owning our hardware standards ensuring we are optimally placed to provide our customers with the best possible experience today and in the future across storage, CPU compute and GPU compute platforms. The ideal candidate must have an infrastructure architecture background with a passion for understanding how various compute and storage products and services interact with each other and how they fit together to provide a common architecture across our global datacenters.

Role In this architecture position, you will:

• Own overall compute and storage architectural patterns and designs for the distributed platforms program

• Work closely with SMEs in each of our teams and in partner teams like networks, database and datacenter engineering to help build and implement strategic roadmaps to evolve our compute and storage offerings

• Own our GPU/AI infrastructure strategy for compute and storage

• Build and maintain architectural standards, patterns and processes

All About You The ideal candidate for this position should:

• Have strong experience owning and developing compute and storage architectures

• Have strong experience across many of our key technologies of Linux, Windows, vmware, storage (file, object, block), Tanzu/PCF and Kubernetes

• Have experience building infrastructure designs for GPU backed AI/ML workloads

• Have a strong understanding of networks and datacenter infrastructure

• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills to help create exceptional documentation

• Have the ability to think at the product and service level and understand what our customers need

• Be passionate about collaboration and pulling together SMEs from various domains to help create holistic standards and patterns

• Be skilled at explaining technical problems succinctly and clearly

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.