Senior Platform Architect

Soft Source, Inc • O'Fallon, MO, US • 5m ago

Title: Senior Platform Architect

this person must have experience in infrastructure design, middleware based technologies, some database understanding.

Location: O’Fallon MO is PREFERRED but will consider remote

HM based in NYC- this position is in St Louis – also open to Remote – prefer close to St Louis but open to other options
This position is on the team responsible for system architecture
Presenting infrastructure design engineer function
Working with partners on engineer team and reliability engineer team and security team
Play a pivotal role for the application
Gathering the objectives from the product and application team and looking at their architectural design
We are looking for someone who is senior – senior platform architecture role- 5-7 YOE and most of the experience should be fast learning, interest in new technologies, working gin a collaborative environment
Middleware based technologies – microservices deployment applications in architecture leveraging the Elastic run time like pivotal cloud, private cloud technology (AWS etc.)
Background in database understanding – for storage – backend application data
Some networking engineer knowledge- not expert but understand how the application deploys on the network and how the traffic route from one side to the other side
This team is relatively large because of the program we support- we have about 16 team members and also are adding more resources on. So up to 20. This position will be US based and then we also have a team in Pune, India. The India APAC region technology have 8 or 9 ppl and the USA team has 7 or 8 so roughly half and half and those are the two teams. For the US some team members are remote for St Louis (4 resources) and then we have other teams. For MasterCard FTE- we require that our team members be onsite hybrid model. For the Contingent worker we do not enforce that and for the resources benefit if they are close to St Louis and they want to come onsite to work with the team, the option is there for them to take advantage of. It is not required for them to come onsite
Considers this role more of a unique role in the sense there is overlapping with solution architecture role and design role with infrastructure focus emphasis.
They will have system design experience and be a good fit because we provide an opportunity to get training with our team members.
It would be beneficial to also do the actual build work (build version machines – F5 Load Balancing/Connectivity/Security Solution Implementation) so this role mostly design oriented but also will do some actual hands-on delivery and then definitely architecture oriented similar to system architect design but more focused on the infrastructure side from platform side (do we use regular version machine or cloud-based version machine so you have the elastic run time benefit) so kind of a hybrid role but we do provide good training – I would look for someone that has hybrid experience in system design infrastructure and web platform engineer experience – our team members that came from the web platform engineer hands-on experience learned architecture and they worked out well. That is pretty common here
CI/CD is different team- we are not handling that. We don’t do those. Pipeline build skills is not something we do on a daily basis but F5 Load Balancing is very helpful
Hands-on Web Platform Engineer with potential to work with architecture team should not be a problem
Not required but someone that has good soft skills and is confident and comfortable talking with peers or partners or engineers from different areas- that personality- would be great. Not required but we do work with the cross-functional team a lot and that can really help communicate ideas and requirements and design