Software Principal Engineer (Architect)

JOB DESCRIPTION

Our Purpose

Title and Summary

Software Principal Engineer (Architect)Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company specializing in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and empower an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by ensuring transactions are safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Utilizing secure data and networks, strategic partnerships, and passion, our innovations and solutions support individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses in realizing their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and influences everything we do both within and outside of our company. With connections spanning more than 210 countries and territories, we are committed to building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview

The Virtual Card Management team are seeking a visionary and results-driven Principal Software Engineer (Architecture) to lead architecture for a service group in our critical virtual card platform for Corporate Solutions. This role is pivotal in driving engineering excellence, scaling delivery capabilities, and fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement. You will be responsible for aligning architecture and engineering strategy with business goals, mentoring high-performing teams, and ensuring the successful delivery of complex software Virtual Card Management group is responsible for designing, building, and operating the technology that powers Mastercard’s next-generation virtual card management platform.

In this role, you will design and build software that scales to global markets, enabling secure, seamless, always available virtual card platform. This is an exciting engineering leadership role working with a global team passionate about the solutions we deliver to our customers.

Role

In this role, you will drive collaboration across engineering, product management, enterprise functions, and regional business teams. You will also lead by defining the technical strategy, architecture, design, and execution to iteratively achieve outcomes.

As a principal software engineer, you will :

Drive business outcomes with the right technology solutions

• Lead the architecture & design of software systems and applications.
• Collaborate with product teams to understand the requirements, identify solutions, and provide technical thought leadership.
• Have experience implementing Domain Driven Design methodology.
• Ensure solutions meet corporate security standards and adhere to operability principles.

Drive a culture of engineering excellence

Skills

All About You

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 :

Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

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.