Sr Principal Software Engineer

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

Sr Principal Software Engineer

Overview:
Architecture &Technology (A&T) is a team of specialists and senior engineers who reach across Programs and teams across Mastercard. We extend our reach by sponsoring and supporting the Software Engineering Guild. Our focus is reviewing, teaching, making rules when necessary, and leaning in to help teams solve hard problems. We are we are skilled in security, design for operability and customer experience, privacy, and regulatory compliance and experts on our Technology Policies. We are the stewards of several of these policies including the Engineering Principles, Software Development Lifecycle Process, External Cloud Policy, and others as needed. We maintain these and other documents using an open contribution model: anyone can propose changes and we carefully review those and incorporate them into our documents. Finally, we maintain several libraries of code that help our engineering teams move faster, avoid re-inventing wheels, and eliminate undifferentiated heavy lifting. These may be built by A&T team members, curated from best practices in other Mastercard teams, or co-developed by A&T and engineers from the Guild.


The Role:
As an A&T Sr Principal Software Engineer you will participate in numerous engagements with Mastercard engineering teams, as well as A&T deliverables such as patterns, frameworks, proof-of-concepts, incubated solutions, policy and standards updates, and shared libraries.
For some of these you will be spearheading the delivery personally or providing technical leadership to a group of contributors. For others you will be performing more of an advisory, mentoring role, coaching and providing feedback to help the engineering teams improve their designs, solve their problems, and become better engineers. You will spend a portion of your time coding as part of some of these internal activities and reviewing code on some of the engagements.
A&T assignments range broadly across all parts of the company, and all layers of the technology stack. On one assignment you may be leading the Technical Due Diligence of a potential acquisition, on the next helping an engineering team for a mission critical payments application with their modernization roadmap, and on the one after that be down in the details of distributed computing platform services.
As part of your duties you will:
Work on complex enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple services/programs and drives resolution.
Work with business/product owners to architect and deliver on new services to introduce new products and bundles.
Contribute and lead Guild initiatives to improve the craftmanship of Software Engineering
Drive the architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies.
Take ownership to improve the customer experience of an entire set of services/applications sold as products or bundled services.
Simplify and improve the cost/benefit of a function/service/architecture strategy.
Apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests.
Venture beyond comfort zone to take on assignments across different areas of Software Engineering.
Take on organization-wide and public speaking engagements and publishes white papers and blogs on relevant and emerging technical topics.
Consult across teams and across program lines to identify synergies and reuse opportunities.
Write recommendations for job promotions based on an unbiased view of one's accomplishments.
Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar.
Identify and raise awareness of Silo-ed behaviors amongst teams within the program.
Mentor and guide software engineers and leads in the team to improve engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance
Engage with external technical communities to extend our reach and benefit from the discovery outside of Mastercard and our industry.
Run Principal review architecture meetings and drive resolutions to enterprise-wide challenges and regulatory needs.
Mentor and coach Principal Engineers across the enterprise.
Proactively participate in setting Guild agenda and faci