Principal Api Architect

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.

Job Title

Principal API Architect

Job Description Summary

Overview:
Principal software engineer projects and creates the development and delivery of enhanced software solutions. Researches alternative technical solutions for changing business needs. Responsible for assuring the daily activities of the team meet the requirements of SLA’s.

Role
- Lead engineering teams to build and evolve the APIs and asynchronous messaging systems that are core to our business
- Collaborate with Product Partners, recommend new technologies that enables new business opportunities
- Design solutions with a focus on resiliency, performance, and maintainability
- Build comprehensive developer experiences for our APIs - focused on secured, quick onboarding, ease of use, and great documentation
- Measure and evaluate features and system metrics to continuously improve developer experience and service performance
- Grow and inspire a team of engineers through a combination of coaching, mentoring, feedback and career development
- Cultivate a healthy, collaborative engineering culture that’s in line with our values and DevOps principles.
- Make recommendations on future technical architecture for software, platform, integrations and tools
- Work collaboratively to help define, execute and implement product roadmaps

Experiences

You have Strong knowledge and demonstrated experience in
- 1. Building customer centric API, experience with lifecycle management, testing and the corresponding technologies.

2. Enterprise security design in a Microservices architecture such as the role of Identity Providers and the Authentication / Authorization flow design.

3. Enterprise level asynchronous /event based communication and integration.

4. Microservices topologies, including operational concerns such as resiliency, observability, discovery and routing, etc.

5. Good understand of different approaches to managing Architectural debt, Architecture governance and evolution in practice.
- Deep technical skills in the following areas: JavaScript, OpenAPI (Swagger), SQL, AWS, CI/CD, Docker, Serverless technologies, Kafka
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to thrive under pressure and function effectively in a fast-paced work environment
- Exhibit sound judgment and swift decision-making skills
- Exhibit strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to collaborate and build consensus with others
- Knowledgeable about system design, data structures and algorithms
- Skilled at processing and analysing large data sets
- MOST IMPORTANT - Love of technology; actively seeks continuing education of current and emerging technologies

COVID-19 Considerations

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.