Mastercard
PrincipalSoftwareEngineer
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“Principal Software Engineer at Mastercard. Skills: Software engineering, Platform development, Technical leadership. Serve as technical authority. Provide leadership”
Industry & Context.
Solve toughest problems; Address monumental challenges; Resolve last-minute issues
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Profound experience developing scalable, high performing systems, Design and Architecture patterns, Programming experience, Cloud and DevOps Architecture experience, Databases experience, Tools experience
Nice to Have
Kubernetes experience a plus, Docker experience a plus, Chef experience a plus, Azure experience a plus, AWS experience a plus, PostgreSQL experience a plus, Oracle experience a plus, MSSQL experience a plus, Eclipse experience a plus, IntelliJ experience a plus, Sonar experience a plus, GIT experience a plus, Maven experience a plus, SQL Developer experience a plus, Jenkins experience a plus, CI/CD experience a plus
What You'll Do.
Serve as technical authority
Guide critical decisions
Collaborate with partners
Develop creative solutions
Experiment with technology
Build software solutions
Mentor engineering teams
Act as technical team leader
Act as individual contributor
Lead enterprise-wide initiatives
Implement new services
Engage with technical community
Evaluate new solutions
Make decisions on technical direction
Explain technical issues
Explain solution strategies
Ensure accomplishment of technical designs
Ensure delivery milestones
Liaise with stakeholders
Understand business needs
Design high-performance platforms
Develop high-performance platforms
Design globally scalable platforms
Develop globally scalable platforms
Collaborate with SRE teams
Collaborate with Engineering teams
Collaborate with Infrastructure teams
Ensure architectures are robust
Balance hands-on leadership
Focus on SDLC processes
Focus on governance processes
Foster inclusive ideation sessions
Resolve production issues
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Across organizational boundaries; With architects; With product managers; With analysts; With managers; With engineers; With business owners; With product owners; With SRE teams; With Engineering teams; With Infrastructure teams
Communication Scope
Explain technical issues; Explain solution strategies
Full Job Description
**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 Software Engineer ### Overview: • Customer Connectivity is a global Mastercard team that designs, builds and supports service platforms that provide Identity and certificate management functions utilized by global Mastercard application teams. • As a Principal Software Engineer for Employee Access Management, you serve as a technical authority, providing comprehensive leadership and guiding critical decisions across our program and its technology and product partners. You act as a pathfinder, collaborating across organizational boundaries with architects, product managers, analysts, managers, and engineers to develop creative solutions for evolving our growing platform. As an enabler, you take a hands-on approach—experimenting, building, and mentoring engineering teams to successfully implement and deliver these solutions into production. Role: • Acts as a technical team leader and individual contributor, devoting a substantial portion of their time to hands-on work. Recognized as a subject matter expert and authority in their field, they promote innovation and propel organizational growth through their impactful contributions • Lead complex, enterprise-wide initiatives that span multiple services and programs, collaborating with business and product owners, engineers, and architects to design and implement new services that enable the introduction of innovative products and bundles • Responsible for the analysis, design, dev
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