Sr. Principal Software Engineer, Big Data Engineering

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Sr. Principal Software Engineer, Big Data Engineering

Overview

What we create today will define tomorrow. Revolutionary technologies that reshape the digital economy to be more connected and inclusive than ever before. Safer, faster, more sustainable. We need the best people to do it: technologists who are energized by the challenges of a truly global network. Employees with the talent and vision to create the critical systems and products that power global commerce and connect people everywhere to the vital goods and services they need every day.

Working at Mastercard means being part of a unique culture that is inclusive and diverse, a rich collaboration of ideas and perspectives. We are a place that celebrates your strengths, values your experiences, and offers you the flexibility to shape a career across disciplines and continents. We provide you the opportunity to work alongside experts and leaders at every level of the business, improving what exists, and inventing what’s next.

About the Role

As a member of the Data Platforms and Engineering Services team, the Senior Principal Engineer is a key driver of the technology architecture, design, implementation, operation, and support of the data technology and platforms needed to enable Mastercard to leverage the unique and valuable data assets we provide to drive revenue, regulatory compliance, and new product development.

The technology complexity involved is enormous, given that the Mastercard Data Warehouse is the largest shared service of the company, in terms of size of the data assets, the number of physical servers, the number of transactions stored, and how many products and lines of business leverage the data in the warehouse. This role will help lead the continued evolution and modernization of our data platforms and data engineering practices to ensure Mastercard stays at the competitive forefront in the industry.

As a Senior Principal Engineer, this role will:
- Set and drive the technical vision and architecture for the Data Platforms and Engineering Services ecosystem –
o As the technical architect, this role will drive the vision and architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies.
o This includes identifying ways to make demonstrable progress in the short-term, while keeping an eye on the vision to ensure we are setting ourselves up for long-term success.
o Be the “technical face” of the Data Platforms and Engineering Services team across Mastercard and be able to easily translate and present complex technical topics to senior business leaders.
o Challenge the status quo where necessary and build consensus around those differential opinions.
- Partner on critical efforts and liaise across Mastercard –
o Work closely with team members on all vendor evaluations and be a key stakeholder and voice in any build vs. buy decisions.
o Consult across teams and across program lines to identify synergies and reuse opportunities.
- Solve tough problems and pave the path for team members –
o Lead projects to prototype and prove concepts for new technologies, application frameworks, and design patterns.
o Ensure that solutions are built for scale and are applicable on our hybrid public-private cloud environment, addressing the needs of all relevant stakeholders (including M&As).
o Tackle intrinsically hard problems, venturing beyond comfortable approaches when necessary, and are adept at “Thoughtful Risk Taking”.
o Balance trade-offs between competing interests; adapt approach to meet the needs of the team, project, and product; bring clarity to complexity and demonstrate smart ways to simplify.
o Have strong ownership of the team’s software and be deep in the maintenance characteristics, runtime properties and dependencies including hardware, operating system, and build.
- Learn, educate, mentor, and lead –
o Conduct technical interview