Mastercard is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to architect and implement applications, APIs, and data products that deliver critical insights from Mastercard's data to customers. You will lead the technology approach to challenges including scaled data pipelines, near real-time processing, and regulatory requirements, driving major initiatives with broad business impact.
What You'll Do
- Lead the definition, development, and delivery of major cross-department initiatives with broad scope and long-term business implications for major clients.
- Operate with technical agility across all aspects of the stack and development process for both existing and new products.
- Implement solutions with an emphasis on high quality, scalable, and extensible development best practices.
- Champion top-quality outputs, keep pace with industry standards, and apply to the team’s development practices.
- Coach and mentor individuals at all experience levels directly and through creation of knowledge sharing best practices.
- Advise senior management on technical tradeoffs and feasibility. Explore solutions through research and by performing PoCs.
- Partner with business owners to understand commercial opportunities and evaluate technical designs for cost, ROI, risks, benefits, and constraints.
- Work with technical partners across the organization to prioritize and develop scalable solutions.
- Lead firm-wide engineering initiatives by engaging and mentoring Engineers at all levels to improve the craftmanship of Software Engineering.
- Ensure compliance of audit requirements by proactively educating team on Compliance Requirements and Integrating Compliance Requirements in SDLC. Represent team during Compliance Audits.
- Represent senior leadership as Technical 'voice in the room' in various meetings, many of which are with senior stakeholders.
What We're Looking For
- Demonstrated expertise and deep technical foundations in Java or C# .Net application development frameworks.
- Expertise in one or more enterprise database solutions (e.g. SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Impala, Spark).
- Expertise leading development of RESTful API services including design patterns and scalability.
- Proficiency in using Python or Scala, Spark, Hadoop platforms & tools (Hive, Impala, Oozie, Airflow, NiFi, Scoop), SQL to build Big Data products & platform.
- Experience with automated testing including integration testing, load testing, and unit testing.
- Experience defining hardware specifications to support applications.
- Passion for solving complex analytical/quantitative problems in real world scenarios.
- Self-directed and desire to thrive solving unstructured problems in a creative, small team environment.
- Solid academic record with a degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
- Proven ability to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams of business analysts, developers, data scientists, and subject matter experts.
- Strong ability to investigate and analyze complex technical problems and deliver elegant solutions.
- Able to promote and coach teams to take on full-stack development and facilitate end-to-end service ownership.
- Capable of engaging engineers across the Technology organization to promote standard software patterns and reuse of common libraries and services.
- Able to succinctly articulate the architecture patterns of complex systems to executive and customer stakeholders, together with any associated business and technical implications.
Nice to Have
- Experience with cloud data platforms such as Databricks, and Snowflake is huge plus.
Technical Stack
- Languages & Frameworks: Java, C# .Net, Python, Scala
- Databases & Big Data: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Impala, Spark, Hadoop, Hive, Oozie, Airflow, NiFi, Scoop, SQL
- APIs: RESTful API
- Cloud Platforms: Databricks, Snowflake
Team & Environment
This is an Individual Contributor role reporting directly to the Enterprise and Credit Risk Program’s technology Vice President.
