Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Principal Engineer (Architecture)Who is Mastercard?Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
The MDES team is looking for a Technical Architect (Principal, Software Development Engineer) who can lead Architecture and Design of MDES Services and define regional distribution / localization design for MDES. The ideal candidate is the one who is passionate about leading software development, driving engineering practices & technically mentoring team members for a highly scalable, highly available enterprise grade payment application.
Role
• Lead platform / solution architecture design addressing all non-functional requirements
• Work closely with Product Management and Engineering Team to come up high level design
• Develop critical components whenever required and create proof of concepts for new/unknown use cases/ideas
• Conduct code reviews, is responsible for overall code quality, Coach and mentor less experienced team members
• Write and review Design Documentation whenever required
• Do SCM Operations – branching, merging, tagging, conflict resolution
• Study upcoming technologies and identify how they can be used to improve existing solution
• Comply with organizations processes. Policies and protects organization’s Intellectual property. Also, participate in organization level process improvement and knowledge sharing
All About You
Essential knowledge, skills & attributes
• Experience of technically leading at least one scrum team in terms of assisting Product Manager in refining the features and stories, doing low level design, doing code review, troubleshooting team’s issues, guiding & mentoring team members
• Hands on experience and expert on working with core Java, Spring Boot, Spring (MVC, IOC, AOP, Security), SQL, RDBMS (Oracle and PostGRES), NoSQL (Cassandra), Web-services (JSON and SOAP), Kafka, Zookeeper
• Hands on experience of developing microservice application & deploying them on any one of the public cloud like Google, AWS, Azure
• Hands on experience of using Intellij/Eclipse/My Eclipse IDE, UML tools (MS Visio, PlantUML)
• Hands on experience of writing Junit test cases, working with Maven/Ant/Gradle, GIT
• Experience of working with Agile methodologies.
• Personal attributes are strong logical and Analytical Skills, design skills, should be able to articulate and present his/her thoughts very clearly and precisely in English (written and verbal)
• Knowledge of Design Patterns
• Knowledge of Security concepts (E.g. authentication, authorization, confidentiality etc.) and protocols, their usage in enterprise application
Additional/Desirable capabilities
• Experience of working in Payments application Domain
• Hands on experience of working with tools like Mockito, JBehave, Jenkins, Bamboo, Confluence, RallyMastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal 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. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment 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
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: $170,000 - $281,000 USD