Company

MasterCard

Description

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Job Title

Principal Architect - Decision Management Cloud Processing

Overview

The Mastercard Decision Management Program has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Architect responsible to plan, design, and implement a cloud strategy moving a high throughput, low latency, and highly intelligent transaction processing to cloud environments. You will be a technical leader driving out the solutions to process in both public clouds as well as privately hosted cloud environments. The Decision Management platform delivers industry leading intelligence with business agility at global scale to power products that protect our customers from fraud, impede crimes such as human trafficking and terrorism, provide customers control over their spend, protect Mastercard from financial risk, and earn significant revenue. Processing over 1.5 billion transactions per day in tens of milliseconds each at over 65,000 transactions per second, DMP leverages innovative new technologies including multi-layered AI engines, real time feature stores leverage extreme performance in memory data grids, a streaming big data cluster, business intelligence tooling, self-service business rule capabilities, and web apps & API for providing customers control and insights for their decisions. The idea candidate is a strong technical leader, highly motivated and innovative, passionate about technology, creates strong partnerships, and has a proven track record for architecting and delivering mission critical solutions that meet customers needs, aligned to enterprise standards, and are cost effective.

Role

In This Principal Architect Position, You Will

Provide thought leadership for the ongoing re-architecture of the Decision Management applications to enable elastic, cloud deployments in a hybred cloud environment
Provide detailed subject matter expertise in cloud software architecture.
Work with Product Owners and Architectural Leadership to drive out the strategic roadmap for the platform and ensure appropriate architectural and technical items are suitably prioritized.
Work in collaboration with other architects within DMP & wider Mastercard Operations and Technology to ensure that architectural principles are aligned where appropriate.
Be responsible for producing key Architectural Documentation including Overviews and Roadmaps, using these to ensure formal architectural governance is correctly applied.

All About You

The ideal candidate for this position should have:

Experience architecting and operating mission critical, high volume, low latency services onto elastic infrastructure ranging from public cloud to private data centers.
Experienced with architecting high performance application data services against data stores with very large amounts of data
Experience with real time data streaming tools such as Kafka, Storm, NIFI, AWS Kinesis, Azure Stream Analytics
Experience transforming on-prem solutions to a hybrid cloud environment
Experience with multi cloud providers
Experience with microservices architecture
Experience with running AI engines/rules engines and data caching technologies
Experience with distributed compute solutions
Strong written and verbal communicator with the ability to translate complex technical information for senior management and product team
Experience providing technical thought leadership across an organization

In the US, Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment 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. If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application 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

Responsibilities

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.

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