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 Engineering
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
The Avanti Command Center is looking for a Senior Principal, Software Engineering to lead analysis, architecture, operations and troubleshooting initiatives for Avanti in-scope programs for both on-premises and cloud deployments. This role is in support of a strategic technology initial to drive support for localized deployments to meet regulatory and customer on-soil requirements. This role will report into the Avant Command Center Tech Design and Assurance Lead.
Role
In this position, you will:
• Work with A&T, ONE, Product, BizOps, Security and Compliance in order to identify, prioritize and ultimately mitigate the most impactful technical challenges facing Payment Networks, Shared Services and other Avanti in-scope products and programs.
• Support definition, consistent planning and execution of solutions and mitigations to the challenges identified for these areas.
• Drive and manage overall view of dependencies across Avanti in-scope programs.
• Identify, manage and escalate risks as necessary for Avanti in-scope programs.
• Prepare for sessions to achieve executive alignment on challenges where one or more programs are unable to progress.
• Partner with Reporting and Communications function to deliver frequent updates to executive leadership on foundation and edge-in execution status.
• Work with broader Localization Governance executive steering committee plus O&T/P&E/C&I leadership to remove any barriers/blockers to execution for Avanti in-scope programs.
• Provide single-point-of-contact support for Avanti in-scope programs on technical challenges, sharing learnings across programs
All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should have:
• Extensive experience leading complex, cross-domain technology efforts.
• Proven track record for deployment and support of Mastercard production application or service.
• Technology depth and past engineering experience with either market-facing, shared services or internal services.
• Demonstrated success with influencing and building relationships for strategic results across operations, stakeholders, and enterprise.
• History of executive level-communications is a plus.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments; flexibility to handle rapidly changing scenarios.
• Strong communications skills, demonstrated success in delivering executive communications.
• Always looking for potential solutions to solve problems.
Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.
Mastercard is an inclusive equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
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.
In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.
Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $200,000 - $320,000 USD
Remote - Missouri: $200,000 - $320,000 USD
Remote - New York: $200,000 - $320,000 USD
