Principal Platform Engineer, Mastercard
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Global payments technology company
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Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive experience leading domestic and/or global teams across technology domains as a technical expert, selecting, implementing and evaluating new technology to drive architectural solutions
- Extensive Experience ensuring security and service standards are implemented to drive technology performance and experience
- Extensive experience leading large cross-functional technology initiatives, demonstrating a strong ability to anticipate and resolve design architectural challenges
- Collaborating with leaders in the technical community to evaluate new solutions and recommend future technology requirements
- Acting as a global thought leader and active participant in global technical communities of practice (e.g., Tech Leadership Network, Architect Guild, Cloud), including driving efforts to develop new innovative designs and/or processes to be applied to project work and initiatives
- Possessing skills to evaluate existing practices, metrics, and roles to continually optimize SDLC methodologies and automate processes to improve lead time
- Possessing skills to perform architecture, costs and technology risk analysis for internal, hybrid, and public cloud solutions
- Driving trade-off discussions to set right development capacity based on various value drivers (e.g. regulatory, security, new business, market parity, technical debt)
What the job involves
- Principal Cloud Platform Architect/Engineer responsible for the helping define, implement and maintain several Mastercard Cloud initiatives focusing on Merger & Acquisition activities
- Initiatives include items such as helping define Strategy, Principles, Patterns, Standards, Designs, and Integration approaches which will aid in enabling current and future Entities join Mastercard
- Works across multi-organizations inside Mastercard and the M&A entity to influence complex decision and designs, driving outcome-based activities, advocating, and gaining trust through leadership and delivery
- Communicates organizational vision and infuses external industry standards and best practices into new and innovative strategic changes. Consult across teams/organizations to identify synergies, risks, dependencies, and re-use opportunities
- Designs architecture from proof of concept to an operationally functional application and collaborates with peers, engineers, application team(s) and user(s) to determine that all the high-level requirements have been met
- Formulates recommendations to optimize the existing cloud platform architecture including developing creative solutions to drive innovation and enhance customer experience
- Tracks and manages architecture issues and their corresponding exceptions or corrective action plans to ensure best practices are implemented and adhered to. Ensures exceptions are properly recorded and mitigated, explaining trade-offs when required
- Supports process improvement efforts to identify and test opportunities for automation and/or reduction in time to deployment
- Provides consultative advice and remediation to architectural and operational problems impacting cloud infrastructure, services & product availability and performance globally, and evaluates new technology for possible deployment in Mastercard’s overall infrastructure
- Contributes to technology guild initiatives by engaging and mentoring all levels to improve craftsmanship and conducting architect training. Actively participate and contribute to the Mastercard Guild community and Review Boards
- Creates and contributes to approved and reusable Cloud-based Patterns and Standards
- Mentors and coaches team members by providing training to develop technical skills and capabilities across the organization
Application process
- End Date: April 30, 2025
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Mastercard is in the global payments business, and operates the world's fastest payments processing network. Its products and solutions have become central to everyday commerce across the world, in activities ranging from shopping and travelling to running businesses.
As the economy has become more and more digitised, Mastercard has been a leading player in helping businesses and individuals across the globe embrace card payments and digital banking. One of the world's largest companies, its revenue has seen consistent gain in the last 20 years.
The challenge for modern payments companies is that payments are always changing, as seen in the astronomical rise of contactless payments over the last decade. Mastercard's acquisition of blockchain systems, and an overall focus on leveraging its technology towards a digital economy, has placed the company in good stead to keep up to date with current trends, like cryptocurrency, in the digitised payments world.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Share purchase options
- Extra holiday purchase optional
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Pension plan 🇬🇧
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays) 🇬🇧
Company HQ
Purchase, Harrison, NY
Leadership
Michael Miebach
(CEO, not founder)Has served in a variety of roles at the company, including President and CPO. Currently Board Member at IBM, Accion, the World Resources Institute, the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, and the Metropolitan Opera. They are also a Trustee of USCIB.
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