Principal Architect

We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Architect to join our team at Mastercard. As a Principal Architect, you will be responsible for devising architectures and providing technical leadership for initiatives targeting fraud, customer risk, and authentication.

The Principal Architect will be responsible for:

• Devising architectures and providing technical leadership for initiatives targeting fraud, customer risk, and authentication
• Providing technical thought leadership across the organization
• 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
• Mentoring technical individual contributors
• Estimating and planning new efforts

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
• Experience architecting large and complex systems from the conceptual architecture level down through the application architecture level
• Experience providing technical thought leadership across an organization
• A wide breadth and depth of technical experience including Java, Linux, Oracle, and virtualization technologies
• Experience with agile software development processes and architecture governance
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate to an audience at all levels within an organization
• Self-motivated with the ability to accomplish tasks with minimal direction
• Ability to manage multiple efforts simultaneously and meet agreed-upon deadlines

Experience with web architecture and application development, including APIs

Experience with high-performance data storage such as GemFire in-memory Data Grid

Database experience (e.g., Oracle)

Experience integrating vendor and open-source products into an overall system

Experience developing and supporting highly scalable/high-performance transaction processing systems

Mastercard is an 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.

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All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come 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
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines