• Support the team in analyzing and resolving UAT defects. • Identify root causes and drive sustainable solutions. • Review the current architecture and implementation to improve maintainability, scalability, and quality. • Provide technical guidance and coaching to the development team. • Establish and reinforce best practices for coding, testing, deployments, and troubleshooting. • Help accelerate delivery by removing technical blockers and improving team effectiveness. • Collaborate with technical stakeholders to strengthen engineering quality and delivery outcomes. • Promote sustainable engineering practices that improve long-term maintainability.

• lead the architecture and modernization of our enterprise application ecosystem • design target-state architectures and standardize APIs • advance event-driven patterns with Redpanda • build robust integrations across home-grown applications, Salesforce, Sales Cloud, Data Cloud, and Marketing Cloud • maintain an active relationship with Jesus Christ and support the ministry through prayer and actions • define, design, implement target-state enterprise application architecture aligned with organizational strategy • lead solution design for application technology stack • establish SOA and EDA standards, including event schemas and reusable patterns • architect secure, scalable optimized integrations • create technical documentation and detailed work descriptions for new features, cross-team projects, and architectural & system design changes • configure and tune Redpanda clusters for high performance and resiliency • promote security-by-design, observability, CI/CD, DEVOPS, and cloud-native best practices • partner with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into technical roadmaps

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 Overview Infrastructure Design Services is a team of Technology Architects and Engineers responsible for defining and governing the enterprise infrastructure architecture to meet application, platform, and system needs in alignment with Mastercard's operational standards and principles. As a Lead Platform Architect, you will provide thought leadership and set the strategic direction for infrastructure architecture across multiple domains. You will engage early in the analysis and design phases, partnering with application teams and other critical stakeholders to ensure that infrastructure and application architectures adhere to Mastercard's security, scalability, and availability standards. The primary deliverable is the Technical Architecture Document (TAD), which articulates the end-to-end infrastructure design for complex applications, platforms, or systems. This role demands deep expertise in internet fundamentals, including web servers, application servers, internet security, and emerging technologies. You will lead the design and delivery of enterprise-grade infrastructure solutions that meet global business, product, and service requirements. Role Define and drive the strategic infrastructure architecture vision for Mastercard's platforms and systems. Generate and validate high-level requirements, collaborating with architects, engineers, application teams, and business stakeholders to ensure alignment with enterprise standards. Produce and maintain architectural artefacts such as TADs, technical models, and logical flows, ensuring they remain current and authoritative. Act as the technical authority for resolving complex architectural and operational challenges impacting global infrastructure performance and availability. Research, evaluate, and recommend emerging technologies for adoption within Mastercard's infrastructure ecosystem. Provide architectural governance and oversight for major initiatives, ensuring compliance with security, scalability, and resilience principles. Lead enterprise-wide initiatives, influencing design patterns and best practices across regions and teams. Drive innovation in infrastructure design, leveraging automation, cloud-native principles, and modern deployment methodologies. All About You Expert-level knowledge of network architecture, operating systems, and web middleware. Deep understanding of internet infrastructure design, web administration, and enterprise-scale systems. Advanced expertise in load balancers, web application firewalls, and security frameworks. Strong knowledge of database technologies, cloud platforms, and Zero Trust Architecture principles. Experience with YAML-based deployments and modern infrastructure-as-code practices. Strategic thinker with the ability to influence at all organisational levels. Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with proven ability to lead cross-functional teams. High degree of initiative, self-motivation, and ability to drive results in complex environments. Skills & Abilities Demonstrates technical leadership and architectural vision. Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills for enterprise-scale challenges. Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver under pressure. Rapid learner of emerging technologies and trends. Excellent collaboration skills across diverse, geographically distributed teams. Customer-focused mindset with a commitment to delivering high-quality solutions. 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.

Role Description Confiz is looking for a seasoned solution architect to join our growing Architecture Team - focused on optimizing our Web and App front ends, designing a robust landscape that leverages the digital capabilities as modular components. We aim to provide innovative design and architecture that enhances speed, flexibility, and personalization, enabling intelligence-driven customer experiences on a responsive and scalable platform. - Act as a technical thought leader and architect across all front-end teams delivering digital solutions for end users - Providing the architecture of Web/App platforms as per the laid out guiding principles - High level architecture to be transformed into Technical Designs - Transforming Functional & Non-functional requirements into designs - Co-ordinating with product & business teams to close the loop for requirements & include into final solution proposal - Assessing various available options, weighing their pros and cons, and documenting the results as an Architectural Decision Record (ADR) - Assist and advise the engineering teams in selecting tools and evaluating multiple providers - Outlining the Technical Architecture for each individual component including Web, App, SSO, Ecommerce capabilities - Facilitate and participate in design review sessions to ensure alignment with architectural standards and best practices - Conduct risk assessments of new & existing technologies and implementations, ensuring compliance with security, Data protection and regulatory requirements Qualifications - 12+ years of overall experience - 3-5 years of working experience in a similar role - Proven experience in Nodejs, Reactjs, React Native technologies - Proven experience in working in complex enterprise with various dependencies - Deep understanding of head-less, micro services based, API first & event-based architecture - Good experience with Cloud Native SaaS & Custom-built applications, components & capabilities - Solid experience of working with Open Technology & best of breed enterprise Technology landscape - Working experience of building solutions in Azure & AWS cloud infrastructure - Able to articulate the design preferences & choices to senior stakeholders with documented analytical approach - Familiarity with Agile working principles - Experience of working with Tools like Lucid, JIRA, confluence etc Requirements - Good to have experience working with Adobe Mar-Tec suite Adobe AEM, Adobe Target etc - Certification in architecture from Azure or AWS - Working experience in a SAFE organisation - Ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team environment, fostering positive relationships with team members and stakeholders Benefits - Our customer base includes Fortune 100 retail and CPG companies, leading store chains, fast growth fintech, and multiple Silicon Valley startups - Focus on processes and culture - ISO 9001:2015 (QMS), ISO 27001:2022 (ISMS), ISO 20000-1:2018 (ITSM) and ISO 14001:2015 (EMS) Certified - Vibrant culture of learning via collaboration and making workplace fun - Work with cutting-edge technologies while contributing success to the company as well as to themselves