Principal Software Engineer

Working at Mastercard means being part of a unique culture. Inclusive and diverse, a rich collaboration of ideas and perspectives. A place that celebrates your strengths, values your experiences, and offers you the flexibility to shape a career across disciplines and continents. And the opportunity to work alongside experts and leaders at every level of the business, improving what exists, and inventing what’s next.Overview This position is a member of the STRM - Security Threat and Response Management team which is responsible for security monitoring and response functions for Mastercard, accounting for both physical and cyber security events. Engineer would build new software capabilities, support existing solutions, provide technical oversight and lend its expertise to the program. Role • Design secure, reliable, and scalable solutions for globally distributed customer facing products. • Collaborate closely with the global Solution Architecture & Engineering team to define principles and best practices • Engage with wider Mastercard Architecture & Technology teams to ensure alignment on the wider technical strategies and policies within Mastercard • Support development teams and work with stakeholders, promoting agile development • Create a culture of technical excellence and innovation • Research, create and evaluate technical solution alternatives for the business needs using current and upcoming technologies and frameworks • They are hands on all the time and collaborate by writing interfaces, tests; unit or acceptance and architecture fitness functions, outside of meeting rooms. • Work with business/product owners to architect and deliver on new services to introduce new products and bundles • Participate and contribute to team’s agile process and decisions. Understand and contribute to Prioritization. Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners • 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 • Contribute and lead Squad initiatives by engaging and mentoring Engineers at all levels to improve the craftmanship of Software Engineering • Simplify and improve the cost/benefit of a function/service/architecture strategy • Consult across teams and across organization lines to identify synergies and reuse opportunities • Participate and contribute to Principal review architecture meetings and drive resolutions to enterprise-wide challenges and regulatory needs • 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 Technologies: -1. Java, J2EE, micro services, RESTful APIs, Angular, Web Services, JavaScript, Docker 2. Framework - Spring (Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Batch, Spring REST, Spring Cloud, AOP), Hibernate 3. UI/UX frameworks and best practices (React, Angular) 4. API tooling and design best practices 5. Cloud and DevOps Architecture, especially via Pivotal Cloud Foundry 6. Databases – Oracle, SQL server, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, ElasticSearch 7. Tools - Eclipse or IntelliJ, Sonar, GIT, Maven, SQL Developer, Jenkins, CI/CD, GatlingAbout You• Hands-on experience in designing solutions and full stack development in modern technologies for large enterprise technology platforms and systems.• Hands-on experience in coding Microservices in Java, building UI/UX, frameworks such as React, Angular, spring boot, RDBMS, Oracle and event driven architecture.• Experience in deploying applications using CI/CD pipelines, docker containers & Kubernetes to Cloud platforms.• Knowledge with Pivotal Cloud Foundry or any other cloud platform AWS or Azure or GCP is preferred.• Has experience designing and implementing solutions focusing on the non-functional concerns – Performance, Scalability, Availability, Extensibility, Supportability, Usability• Operate with urgency, fairness and decency to address challenges and solve for new opportunities.• Capable of working under pressure – navigating complex initiatives, competing priorities and customer requirements.• Strong communicator to maintain internal and external alignment.• Familiar with cutting edge industry trends and thorough understanding of development methodologies and standards,• Ability to manage objectives and pipelines, build business cases, define success metrics and interpret P&L to optimize the business.• Ability to adapt to a fast-changing environment. • Has skills to promote and coach teams on take on full stack development and facilitate end-to-end service ownership • Has skills to engage engineers across Technology organization to promote standard software patterns and reuse of common libraries and services • Has experience in leading and coaching teams to perform software planning and estimation for large scale complex programs • Has skills to drive trade-off discussions to set right development capacity based on value drivers e.g., regulatory, security, new business, market parity, technical debt • Has experience in design and execution of automation across multiple business areas and provides guidance on best methods and tools. • Has skills to succinctly articulate architecture patterns of complex systems, with business and technical implications, to executive and customer stakeholders • Has skills to define and drive advanced chaos and other operational testing practices to test points of failures, monitors, and system behaviors under adverse conditions e.g., resource spikes, network congestion, component or infrastructure failure • Experienced in agile and modern SDLC practices: Scrum/Kanban/Continuous Delivery/DevOps/Quality engineering, and the delivery situations they are used for