Lead, Platform Engineering

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 Engineering Overview • Work with various lines of business in a collaborative effort to ensure all Network assets on the Mastercard network are properly tracked by collecting data on ownership as well as ensuring alignment with the asset lifecycle from deployment through disposal. • Develops new and modifies existing networks in support of application services. • Advises the business on priorities for network design and implementation. • Manages network infrastructure to ensure security, availability, recoverability, performance, integrity, and supportability. Responsibilities • Manages and maintain Mastercard's network infrastructure including implementing network enhancements and providing production support and maintenance of existing networks • Monitors network performance to identify areas of concern and implements strategies to improve processes and efficiencies • Leads day-to-day building, maintaining, and monitoring of networks for all environments (i.e., corporate, production, etc.) • Assesses Mastercard's network security to ensure effective network safeguard processes are in place and operational networks are running effectively for hosted production systems • Serves as a point of escalation, resolving problems of diverse scopes where analysis of the situation requires in-depth evaluation and judgement • Performs and presents complex vendor comparisons and cost studies to support the planning of large scale system projects All About You Experiences • Experience leading a major work stream or multiple smaller work streams for a large network domain initiative, often providing technical guidance and advice to ensure consistent deployment of solutions • Experience setting priorities, objectives, and driving deliverables • Experience teaming with leaders in the technical community to derive new solutions and drive quality and consistency globally within global network technology domains and sub-domains • Experience engaging with the broader technical community to anticipate developments in innovation, often evaluating new solutions and business network requirements • Successfully served as an expert resource or go-to-person for network infrastructure issues or solutions • Experience building collaborative working relationships with internal and external partners across technology domains • Experience creating and delivering presentations for internal learning, training events and/or business discussions • Experience motivating and providing regular feedback to team members; resolves performance issues Mastercard is a merit-based, 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. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. 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 ev ... (truncated, view full listing at source)