Senior Infrastructure Design Architect

$112,000 - $187,000/Yr

Mastercard - O'Fallon, MO

Full-time - Senior

O'Fallon, MO

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About the position

The Lead Platform Architect will be responsible for the analysis and design of infrastructure frameworks that align with Mastercard's operational standards and engineering principles. This role involves collaborating with various teams to ensure that the infrastructure and application architecture meet security, scalability, reliability, and availability standards. The architect will lead the definition of new standards and best practices while managing and supporting application infrastructure components.

Responsibilities

• Gather requirements and conduct infrastructural analysis to produce robust designs that adhere to Mastercard technologies.
• Meet with peers, engineers, application teams, and users to ensure all high-level requirements are met.
• Generate Technical Architecture Documents, technical memos, logical flows, and models to keep stakeholders updated on architecture and infrastructure layout.
• Maintain all architectural products in the most current state to prevent obsolescence.
• Implement, manage, and support application infrastructure components using current standards and best practices.
• Resolve internet architectural and operational problems impacting infrastructure and product availability and performance globally.
• Lead and collaborate to define new standards.
• Research and evaluate new technology for possible deployment in Mastercard's internet infrastructure.
• Assume lead accountability for ongoing regional projects, including planning, time and cost control, and resource utilization.
• Contribute to incident/problem diagnosis and root cause analysis.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Sciences, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• Advanced knowledge of Web application architecture and project delivery.
• Advanced knowledge of the Java Virtual Machine and Garbage collection.
• Advanced knowledge of load balancers and web application firewalls.
• Advanced knowledge of network and operating system principles.
• Vast knowledge of middleware technologies (Web Servers, Application Servers, Queue Managers, Messaging, Caching).
• Working knowledge of Database technologies and cloud technologies.
• Solid knowledge of techniques to achieve non-functional requirements like reliability, availability, resilience, performance, and security.
• Working knowledge of Role Based Access Control, Authentication, and Authorization mechanisms.
• Proficient in root cause analysis and troubleshooting.

Nice-to-haves

• Demonstrated initiative in building relationships with colleagues from multiple areas within Mastercard.
• Exposure to internal resources and tools.

Benefits

• Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
• Flexible spending account and health savings account
• 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