Description
Mastercard is hiring a Principal Engineer – Application Architect to provide technical and delivery leadership across payment-network initiatives. The role owns secure, scalable, highly available architecture; coordinates releases, dependencies, defect triage, and cross-cutting issues; leads design reviews for APIs, services, data, resiliency, security, and operational readiness; and mentors engineers and technical leads. It requires extensive large-scale software architecture and development experience, deep Java and cloud-native expertise, secure engineering and reliability practices, and experience with distributed systems, multi-region resiliency, architecture governance, and enterprise engineering standards. A bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience is required, while payments or financial-services domain knowledge is preferred.
