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.

Title And Summary

Principal Software Development Engineer (SKY0062)

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineering Architect for our Cyber and Intelligence (C&I) division to drive technical solutions across multiple products. In this role you will formulate technical strategy, develop architectures, and provide design leadership for significant capabilities on a modern technology stack. You will use your strategic and technical capabilities to innovate and collaborate across multiple teams building a state-of-the-art product suite across multiple security and cyber solutions. Key for this role will be the ability to closely partner with other architects, delivery teams, third party providers, and Mastercard acquired companies raising the bar on technical excellence. You will demonstrate superior thought leadership and effectively communicate to various audiences within C&I and across Mastercard. This role is based in our Mastercard technology hub in St. Louis which provides an environment for technology teams to thrive in a collaborative and agile engineering culture. If you want to be part of a team building products to prevent fraud and work on cutting edge technologies, then this is the job for you.

Role

As a Principal Software Engineering Architect, You Will

The ideal candidate is passionate about the practical application of new technologies in a rapidly expanding product domain, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an innovative mindset with demonstrated experience in defining and implementing modern technical solutions.

Work with key stakeholders, other architects, and delivery teams to architect and deliver new components and capabilities
Consult across teams and organization boundaries to identify synergies and reuse opportunities
Drive the architectural design of collaborating services
Lead technical initiatives to improve a suite of components and services supporting multiple products
Contribute to and lead software engineering initiatives by engaging and mentoring engineers at all levels to improve the craftmanship of software engineering
Simplify and improve the cost/benefit of a function/service/architecture strategy
Apply judgment and experience to enable compromise between competing interests
Venture beyond your comfort zone to take on assignments across different areas of software engineering
Participate and contribute to architecture review meetings and drive resolutions to enterprise-wide challenges and regulatory needs
Provide SME support to critical operations as needed
Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the bar on technical excellence
Identify and raise awareness to silo-ed behaviors within the organization
Drive collaboration on complex initiatives spanning multiple products and programs to drive resolutions to architectural opportunities

All About You

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering with a minimum of 7-10 years experience in software engineering
Advanced experience architecting modern systems using state-of-the-art techniques and strategies
Advanced knowledge of cloud platforms like Azure and AWS
Advanced knowledge on modern data engineering environments such as Snowflake and Databricks
Extensive understanding and experience with modern software engineering concepts and methodologies, including Agile Methodologies such as SAFe
Advanced understanding of the tools needed to architect, engineer and support technical solutions
Superior knowledge in application security, including information security principles, web security and PCI DSS
Embody Mastercard technical leadership principles
Demonstrate Mastercard Core Competencies
Be high-energy, detail-oriented, and proactive
Function under pressure in an independent environment demonstrating a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results
Possess strong verbal and written communication skills as well as strong relationship-building, collaborative, and organizational skills
Quickly learn and implement new technologies, frameworks, and tools
Effectively support multiple concurrent activities
Efficiently collaborate with internal and external resources, and work as a member of a matrix based, diverse, and geographically distributed team

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.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $162,000 - $251,000 USD

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