Mastercard

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 Architect - Product Operations and Enablement

Overview:

The Principal Architect - Product Operations and Enablement (POE) will be responsible for leading the technical direction as the POE team works to support the next generation platforms, architectures, and systems leveraged to modernize and improve the operations of the AI & Decision Product Enablement (AI & DPE) organization. The POE team sets the direction and vision around the operational aspects of the AI & DPE platform, which provides business solutions to combat fraud and authenticate users, processing billions of transactions per month. Principal Architects will provide technical thought leadership and expertise for new platform operational capabilities.

Would you like to be a part of developing industry-leading solutions for fighting fraud? Are you motivated by using state-of-the-art technologies to speed business solutions to market? Do you want to create innovative solutions to challenging business problems? If so, this role might be perfect for you.

Role:

• Delivering innovative end-to-end operational solutions -- from the conceptual to the application level for new initiatives
• Partnering with business and other technology teams to set technical strategy, roadmaps, and direction
• Innovating new approaches to meet business needs, lower costs, and improve agility
• Providing direction to project technical leads and reviewing designs
• Mentor technical individual contributors
• Estimating and planning new efforts

All About you:

• Architecting large and complex systems from conceptual to application architecture.
• Providing technical thought leadership across an organization.
• Extensive technical experience with Java, Linux, Oracle, and virtualization technologies.
• Experience with containerization technologies – OpenShift, Kubernetes, etc.
• Experience with commercial CI/CD and deployment products – like digital.ai Deploy/Release, XL Release and IBM DevOps Deploy
• Agile software development processes and architecture governance.
• Self-motivated and able to accomplish tasks with minimal direction.
• Managing multiple efforts simultaneously and meeting deadlines.
• Designing, implementing, and enhancing Chef-based deployment automation, including writing Chef recipes/cookbooks.
• Using Jenkins to orchestrate builds and integrate with Sonar, Chef, Maven, Artifactory for CI/CD pipeline.
• Supporting code deployments into multiple lower environments with a focus on automation.
• Designing and implementing Git-based code management strategies for parallel environment deployments, including automation for branch management, code promotions, and version management.
• Engaging and improving the entire service lifecycle—from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Analyzing ITSM activities and providing feedback on operational gaps or resiliency concerns.
• Scaling systems sustainably through automation and advocating for changes to improve reliability and velocity.
• Supporting the application CI/CD pipeline for software promotion through validation and operational gating, and leading DevOps automation and best practices.
• Thorough understanding of Agile methodologies, with the ability to drive iterative delivery and cross-team collaboration.
• Strong communicator with the ability to explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, and to influence stakeholders across product, engineering, and acquisition teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

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Mastercard 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.

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

O'Fallon, Missouri: $165,000 - $264,000 USD