Senior Principal Data Architect

Job Title:

Senior Principal Data Architect - Finance Modernization

Overview:

Mastercard Overview

Mastercard is seeking talented professionals to join our team and contribute to our mission of connecting and powering an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere. Our ideal candidate thrives in a collaborative environment, embraces challenges, and is committed to achieving excellence. If you are ready to advance your career and be part of a forward-thinking company that values creativity, dedication, and professional growth, we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity with Mastercard.

Role Overview

Mastercard is on a journey to modernize and advance our Finance Technology landscape and architecture. As the Senior Principal Data Architect, you will lead the architecture design and development of end-to-end Finance infrastructure and capabilities. You will be responsible for the technology architecture of all finance systems, covering Billing, Financial Planning, Accounting, Settlement, Treasury, and Reporting and Analytics. You will collaborate with senior leaders across the organization to align finance technology architectural design with business objectives and customer needs. You will also drive the modernization of the finance infrastructure, leveraging cloud, data, and automation technologies to optimize performance, scalability, and security.

Responsibilities

As the Senior Principal Data Architect, you will be responsible for the following:

• Serve as the lead architect and oversee the technical vision and strategy, including the architecture, design, and development for Finance systems and applications

• Build scalable, secure, and resilient architecture aligned with business objectives and establish technical strategies and roadmaps. Partner across the enterprise to drive standards and frameworks.

• Drive the innovation and transformation of the finance technology portfolio, leveraging cloud, data, and automation technologies to enhance the customer experience, operational efficiency, and business agility. Perform architecture and cost analysis for internal, hybrid, and public cloud environments.

• Collaborate with engineering, data, application, and operations teams to ensure architectures meet performance, security, and operational needs. Collaborate with finance business stakeholders to understand the requirements, identify solutions, propose ideas, and provide technical thought leadership.

• Identify and implement new architectural patterns and methodologies, driving innovation and continuous improvement for performance and cost-efficiency.

• Drive the architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies.

• Simplify and improve the cost/benefit of a function/service/architecture strategy.

• Consult across teams and across program lines to identify synergies and reuse opportunities.

• Drive the overall systems/application architecture, create high level designs, and provide guidance to the engineering teams on low level designs.

• Directly contribute to and design holistic platform security posture, which includes proactively identifying security risks and implementing both risk mitigation plans and control functions.

• Stay informed on emerging trends and evaluate and implement Finance industry best practices to keep Mastercard on pace with industry advancements.

All About You

• Experience in leading the initiation and formation of large global projects including architecting, estimating, planning, implementing and operating as well as selecting talent resources across multiple geographies and functions.

• Extensive experience with data lifecycle management, including ingestion, ETL, modeling, and governance, within highly regulated environments.

• Deep understanding of data modeling, data warehousing, and data lake architectures, tools and technologies.

• Demonstrated thought leadership and cross-functional influence and partnership demonstrated by a successful track record of enabling business through these technical decisions.

• Skills to succinctly articulate architecture patterns of complex systems, with business and technical implications, to executive and customer stakeholders.

• Design and build for resilience, including observability, throttling, toggling, single points of failure, redundancy, replication, routing, micro services, and event driven processing.

• Has skills to develop and evangelize on reference architecture and run principles to help teams adopt Mastercard's Engineering Principles from the start (poison pill, active/active/active, auto-scaling, self-healing, others).

• 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.

• Performance engineering experience to ensure applications are built to scale, run, and perform for varying traffic patterns.

• 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.

Qualifications 

• Advanced degree in Data Science, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field. 

• 15+ years of engineering experience in software, data, or related field. 

• Prior experience in financial systems, such as Oracle Financials, Oracle Fusion Cloud, and Hyperion, with experience optimizing their integration into broader data ecosystems, is a plus. To find US Salary Ranges, visit People Place. Under the Compensation tab, select "Salary Structures." Within the text of "Salary Structures," click on the link "salary structures 2025," through which you will be able to access the salary ranges for each Mastercard job family. For more information regarding US benefits, visit People Place and review the Benefits tab and the Time Off & Leave tab.

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