Director of Architecture, Mastercard
Global payments technology company
Open for applications
Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- Do you like to be part of a team that is creating and executing strategic initiatives centered around digital payments?
- Do you look forward to developing and engaging with high performant diverse teams around the globe?
- Would you like to be part of a highly visible, strategically important global engineering organization?
- Demonstrable experience in designing and building a high performance, high transaction volume, scalable platform
- Good understanding of design patterns, principles and infrastructural elements – both hardware and software
- Demonstrate a progressively grown career with proven design and development experiences in multiple languages e.g., Java, .NET, JavaScript, SQL, secure coding standards and vulnerability management
- Expert understanding and experience of DevOps best practices to guide developers and abstract application development from underlying hosting platforms and infrastructure
- Experience in the skills required to implement advanced test set ups in production environment e.g., A/B testing, canary releases, blue-green deployment, feature flags
- Experience in Continuous Integration CI and Delivery CD concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization
- Skills to develop and evangelize on reference architecture and run principles to help teams adopt Engineering Principles from the start
- Skills to promote and coach teams to take on full stack development and facilitate end-to-end service ownership
- Skills to engage engineers across Technology organization to promote standard software patterns and reuse of common libraries and services
- Experience in leading and coaching teams to perform software planning and estimation for large scale complex programs
- 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
- Skills to succinctly articulate architecture patterns of complex systems, with business and technical implications, to executive and customer stakeholders
- Can 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
- Experience in agile and modern SDLC practices: Scrum/Kanban/Continuous Delivery/DevOps/Quality engineering, and the delivery situations they are used for
What the job involves
- The Networks Solutions team at Mastercard was established to further enhance the market leading products and services we offer today
- We are modernizing our platform and taking the opportunity to build additional products and service offerings that would our customers and enable them to do more on our platform
- Continue with the Product Management and Product Development organization to understand business objectives and advise the leadership on the technical strategy for the program
- Continue with at least 25% individual contribution with technical team leadership that is recognized as a team's authority and technical expert within a discipline, and drives innovation and organizational growth through their contributions
- They spend majority of their time in writing non-feature code. They are ready to jump and be hands on all the time and collaborate by writing interfaces, tests, unit or acceptance and architecture fitness functions, outside of meeting rooms
- They implement, monitor, and maintain compliance and security concerns in CI/CD pipelines to bring life to the principle of “Code is Design and Design is Code”
- Domain driven design is their game. They code to enforce the contextual mappings and aggregates for each bounded context. They drive implementation of consumer driven contracts to allow for evolution and learning of the domain model with hyper speed while meeting our promises to other teams internally and customers alike
- 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
- 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 Guild 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
- Identify and raise awareness to Silo-ed behaviors within the organization and teams
- Continuing to develop them, guide, coach and mentor the team
- Manage a team of senior architects on the program distributed across global geographies
- Drive technical excellence across the team
- Managing the workload of the program and the individuals,
- 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
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Mastercard is in the global payments business, and operates the world's fastest payments processing network. Its products and solutions have become central to everyday commerce across the world, in activities ranging from shopping and travelling to running businesses.
As the economy has become more and more digitised, Mastercard has been a leading player in helping businesses and individuals across the globe embrace card payments and digital banking. One of the world's largest companies, its revenue has seen consistent gain in the last 20 years.
The challenge for modern payments companies is that payments are always changing, as seen in the astronomical rise of contactless payments over the last decade. Mastercard's acquisition of blockchain systems, and an overall focus on leveraging its technology towards a digital economy, has placed the company in good stead to keep up to date with current trends, like cryptocurrency, in the digitised payments world.
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Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Share purchase options
- Extra holiday purchase optional
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Trust - integrity, respect, openness
- Agility - urgency and value through innovation
- Partnership - working as one team for the benefit of all
- Initiative - taking bold and thoughtful actions
Company HQ
Purchase, Harrison, NY
Founders
Michael Miebach
(CEO, not founder)Has served in a variety of roles at the company, including President and CPO. Currently Board Member at IBM, Accion, the World Resources Institute, the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, and the Metropolitan Opera. They are also a Trustee of USCIB.
People progressing
Joined as VP in 2008, promoted 4 times in 11 years to their current position of Executive Vice President.
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