Principal, Platform Architecture

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
Principal, Platform Architecture
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 principal infrastructure design authority, providing architectural leadership across multiple programs and platforms to ensure scalable, secure, and automated infrastructure solutions. • Accountable for end-to-end technical outcomes, shaping infrastructure strategy, standards, and long-term architecture decisions across the organization. • Lead the design and governance of complex infrastructure architecture, producing and reviewing technical designs (e.g., TADs, deployment models, dependency mappings) that 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, multi-domain expertise across enterprise infrastructure and platform technologies including compute, storage, virtualization, networking, security, containers, and operating systems, with a strong focus on automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or similar).• Proven ability to design complex distributed systems, translating business and platform requirements into scalable, secure, and repeatable infrastructure architectures.• Broad technical authority across infrastructure domains including networking, firewalls, security controls, identity, platform services, and automation frameworks.• Demonstrated experience influencing enterprise architecture decisions, driving standards and patterns that enable reliable, automated platform deployments.• Strong cross-organizational collaboration skills, partnering with product, platform engineering, security, and operations teams to deliver integrated solutions at scale.• Recognized technical leader and mentor, actively contributing to the Infrastructure Design Engineering guild through knowledge sharing, design reviews, and technical guidance.• Experience operating within highly regulated, security-focused enterprise environments.• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, 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.