Lead, 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

Lead, 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
Infrastructure Design Services is a team of Technology 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, scalability, and availability standards and principles.

Role
• Serve as the lead infrastructure design authority for assigned programs, partnering with product and engineering teams to document, design, and validate infrastructure required to support their products and deployments.
• Produce and own infrastructure technical designs (e.g., TADs, deployment models, dependency mappings), ensuring designs enable reliable, repeatable, and secure deployments across environments.
• Collaborate with security, network, and platform architecture teams to ensure designs are secure-by-design, compliant, and aligned to enterprise and Zero Trust standards.
• Act as a technical mentor and design reviewer, providing guidance, feedback, and quality oversight across infrastructure designs.
 
All About You
• Deep experience in infrastructure design and automation within large-scale enterprise environments, including IaC and configuration management (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or similar).
• Strong background designing infrastructure across compute, storage, virtualization, container, and platform services, with a focus on automation enablement.
• Proven ability to translate program and product requirements into clear, deployable infrastructure designs and standards.
• Experience collaborating across product, platform, security, and operations teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Strong documentation, communication, and technical leadership skills.
• Experience working within highly regulated or security-focused environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer sciences, or Information Systems, or equivalent experience. (preferred)

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.