Principal Architect (Java & Mobile)

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 Architect (Java & Mobile)

At Mastercard Commercial Solutions, we empower businesses to succeed through innovative, trusted payment solutions that deliver a seamless, digital-first experience around the world. We are hiring a Principal Software Engineer (Architect) to provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, drive architectural decisions, and ensuring adherence to best practices and industry standards. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of Java development, Spring Boot framework, microservices architecture, mobile development, and cloud technologies, along with strong problem-solving and communication skills.
Responsibilities
• Set and drive the technical vision and architecture for the Commercial Solutions Java and Mobile development teams. This role will drive the vision and architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies.
• Responsible for the analysis, design, development, and delivery of software solutions
• Define requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes, and best practices
• Lead projects to prototype and prove concepts for new technologies, application frameworks, and design patterns.
• Ensure that solutions are built for scale and are applicable to Mastercard environment, addressing the needs of all relevant stakeholders.
• Work on complex enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple services/programs and drives resolution.
• Work with business/product owners to architect and deliver on new services to introduce new products and bundles.
• Take ownership to improve the customer experience of an entire set of services/applications sold as products or bundled services.
• Contribute and lead Guild 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 balance trade-offs between competing interests.
• Venture beyond comfort zone to take on assignments across different areas of Software Engineering.
• Take on organization-wide and public speaking engagements and publishes white papers and blogs on relevant and emerging technical topics.
• Consult across teams and across organization lines to identify synergies and reuse opportunities.
• Collaborate with existing Principals and management to set engineering principles and federate them throughout the program
• Participate and contribute to Principal review architecture meetings and drive resolutions to enterprise-wide challenges and regulatory needs.
• Write recommendations for job promotions based on an unbiased view of one's accomplishments.
• Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar.
• Assist people managers in the talent management process in hiring strong engineering talent and running performance evaluations.
• Engage with external technical communities to extend our reach and benefit from the discovery outside of Mastercard and our industry.
Qualifications:
• Extensive hands-on software engineering experience in Java, Spring Boot, Angular- including architecture, design, and implementation.
• Strong knowledge and experience with mobile development, including Kotlin, Java, and Android Studio.
• Proven success with development experiences in multiple languages, secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT), and vulnerability management.
• Has skills to develop and evangelize on reference architecture and run principles to help teams adopt Engineering Principles from the start.
• Understands use cases for advanced design patterns (e.g., service-to-worker, MVC, API gateway, intercepting filter, dependency injection, lazy loading, all from gang of four) to implement efficient code.
• Understands and implements Application Programming Interface (API) standards and cataloging to drive API/service adoption and commercialization.
• Cloud experience and familiarity with emerging cloud technologies and tools / integration best practices
• Has skills to promote and coach teams on take on full stack development and facilitate end-to-end service ownership.
• Has skills to engage engineers across Technology organization to promote standard software patterns and reuse of common libraries and services.
• Has experience in leading and coaching teams to perform software planning and estimation for large scale complex programs.
• Has skills to drive trade-off discussions to set right development capacity based on value drivers (e.g., regulatory, security, new business, market parity, technical debt).
• Has experience in design and execution of automation across multiple business areas and provides guidance on best methods and tools.
• Has an expert understanding of DevOps best practices to guide developers and abstract application development from underlying hosting platforms and infrastructure.
• Performance engineering experience to ensure applications are built to scale, run, and perform for varying demands.
• Has skills to evaluate practices, metrics, and roles to continually optimize SDLC methodologies and automate processes to improve lead time and quality.
• Has skills to perform architecture and cost analysis for internal, hybrid, and public cloud environments.
• Has skills to succinctly articulate architecture patterns of complex systems, with business and technical implications, to executive and customer stakeholders.
• Has skills to define and drive advanced chaos and other operational testing practices to test points of failures, monitors, and system behaviors under adverse conditions (e.g., resource spikes, network congestion, component or infrastructure failure).
• Has skills to implement advanced test set ups in production environment (e.g., A/B testing, canary releases, blue-green deployment, feature flags).
• Strong written and verbal English communications skills – prior speaking/blogging engagements in technical forums and conferences.
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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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges

Arlington, Virginia: $165,000 - $264,000 USD

Atlanta, Georgia: $143,000 - $230,000 USD