Manager, Platform Engineering - Big Data Engineering

Mastercard•O'fallon, MO

1d•$122,000 - $207,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Manager, Platform Engineering leads a team responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable, secure, and resilient platform infrastructure. This role combines hands-on technical leadership across Mastercard’s Big Data Engineering team with people management responsibilities, enabling teams to deliver high-quality solutions aligned to enterprise priorities. This leader will drive adoption of modern engineering practices, including infrastructure as code, container platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and microservices architectures, while fostering a high-performing, collaborative team environment.

Requirements

Experience leading high performing engineering teams with a customer-focused mindset. Attracts, grows, and develops exceptional, future-ready talent in a platform, cloud, or DevOps environment
Strong expertise across Big Data platforms and technologies such as Hadoop, Cloudera, etc.
Experience managing or operating distributed systems and microservices architectures
Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Go)
Strong understanding of operating systems and enterprise IT infrastructure
Experience integrating security requirements into platform engineering practices

Nice To Haves

Experience in enterprise-scale or regulated environments
Experience optimizing cloud cost, performance, and scalability

Responsibilities

Lead the design and delivery of cloud infrastructure solutions that meet scalability, resilience, security, and cost efficiency requirements
Oversee the development and operation of container platforms and orchestration environments (e.g., Kubernetes)
Ensure platform capabilities support evolving application performance and business needs
Establish and mature CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows to enable efficient, high-quality software delivery
Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure consistent, automated infrastructure provisioning and management
Champion automation, reducing manual processes and increasing reliability and speed
Guide teams in building and operating distributed systems and microservices architectures
Ensure systems are designed for fault tolerance, scalability, and performance
Oversee monitoring, observability, and operational health across platform services
Provide technical direction across software programming practices and frameworks
Ensure engineering solutions meet standards for performance, maintainability, and reliability
Partner with application teams to align platform capabilities with development needs
Oversee management of operating systems and core IT infrastructure components (compute, storage, networking)
Ensure platform environments are stable, performant, and aligned with enterprise standards
Build and develop a high-performing, inclusive engineering team
Provide coaching, feedback, and growth opportunities for team members
Support hiring and talent development aligned to future capability needs
Delivers Results: Drives accountability and execution against business objectives
Navigates Complexity: Leads teams through ambiguity and cross-functional dependencies
Drives Change: Promotes new technologies, tools, and ways of working
Fosters Enterprise Mindset: Connects team output to broader organizational impact
Shapes Strategy (Developing): Contributes to platform and technology strategy through insights and innovation

Benefits

insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
flexible spending account and health savings account
16 weeks of new parent leave
up to 20 days of bereavement leave
80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time
25 days of vacation time
5 personal days
10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
401k with a best-in-class company match
deferred compensation for eligible roles
fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
eligibility for tuition reimbursement