Senior Network Architect

Mastercard; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000

Job description

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

Senior Network Architect is responsible for network design input into infrastructure, security, and commercial projects. Maintenance and ownership of technology roadmaps with responsibility for ensuring network infrastructure remains relevant to the needs of the Business. Experience of working in multi-vendor environments including but not restricted to Cisco, F5, and Palo Alto with an expectation that candidate can demonstrate industry certification or a long history at design level.

Overview

• Develops new and modifies existing network platform capabilities to support business processes by mapping network platform/infrastructure components, identifying dependencies across systems/platforms, and managing network infrastructure security, availability, recoverability, performance, integrity, and supportability.

Responsibilities

1. Manages the development and creation of network architecture blueprints, standards, and roadmaps for platform and infrastructure components.
2. Designs and implements approaches to achieve optimal performance, reliability, and security, identifying areas for product/network improvements.
3. Implements and communicates updates to technology component standards such as networking, security, and operating systems.
4. Monitors Mastercard's network security to ensure effective network safeguard processes are in place.
5. Leads and executes development projects in the performance, reliability, and security space.
6. Resolves complex network architecture issues, escalating unique or problematic areas as they arise.

Experiences

1. Experience leading a major work stream or multiple smaller work streams for a large domain initiative, often providing technical guidance and advice to project team members.
2. Experience engaging with the broader technical community to anticipate developments in innovation, often evaluating new solutions and recommending future business network requirements.
3. Demonstrated success at selecting and evaluating new technologies that will adhere to innovative industry trends and practices.

Justification

Based on continued use of contract resource and increased workload expectations as the company scales its development business globally, this role is now seen as key to providing continued Network Architecture support to the business.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come 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:

1. Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
2. Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
3. Report any suspected information security violation or breach;
4. Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.