Essential Skills
Extensive software architecture and hands-on Java development experience in large-scale systems. Deep knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, microservices, REST APIs, messaging, event-driven architecture especially Kafka, SQL/NoSQL, and cloud-native platforms. Experience with secure engineering, DevOps, performance, resiliency, observability, and production-readiness practices. Ability to lead through influence across organizational boundaries. Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience. All About You Experience working in Agile delivery environments and across the software development lifecycle. Clear communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills. Ability to work with globally distributed product, engineering, architecture, operations, and business teams. Experience leading SOAR (Solution Architecture Review) and driving technical strategy, architecture alignment, engineering excellence, and risk management across multiple teams. Experience creating and reviewing TADs (Technical Architecture Documents) for large-scale distributed systems, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, security requirements, resiliency objectives, and long-term maintainability. Demonstrated experience defining and governing cross-platform architecture, enabling interoperability, reuse, standardization, and consistent engineering practices across multiple products and services. Experience designing and implementing multi-region resiliency architectures, including active-active and active-passive deployment patterns, disaster recovery strategies, cross-region data replication, failover mechanisms, and business continuity solutions. Strong understanding of distributed data management, including data replication, consistency models, recovery objectives, and operational considerations across geographic regions. Champions operability and maintainability as first-class design principles, ensuring observability, monitoring, automation, self-healing capabilities, supportability, and simplified operational management are built into solutions from inception. Deep understanding of Mastercard Engineering Principles (or equivalent large-scale enterprise engineering standards) and a proven ability to apply them consistently across architecture, software design, deployment, resiliency, security, and operational practices. Demonstrated ability to balance architecture, business priorities, scalability, security, resiliency, and operational considerations while establishing technology direction for multiple engineering teams. Experience defining architecture guardrails, engineering standards, reference implementations, and reusable patterns that improve consistency, quality, and delivery effectiveness across the organization. Strong knowledge of reliability engineering practices, including service-level objectives (SLOs), error budgets, observability, fault isolation, disaster recovery testing, and continuous resilience validation. Payments or financial-services domain knowledge is preferred.
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.
