Lead Software Engineer

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Lead Software Engineer

Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
Data Science and Artificial Intelligence represents the next phase in the advancement of our digital transformation and is a significant evolution for MasterCard. We continue to evolve our Data Science and AI strategy to support aggressive growth plans, and we are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the AI/ML Workbench team. This position requires a working knowledge of what it takes to stand up on-prem platforms and services (such as Kubernetes) and the importance of secure design and data privacy.
Role
#AI3 In this role you will be working with technologies and concepts such as Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Python, Golang, software defined networking, GPU compute, data privacy to support delivery of AI/ML tooling and services to our customers.

A Lead Software Engineer will:
• Participate in team prioritization discussions with Product/Business stakeholders
• Estimate and own delivery tasks (design, dev, test, deployment, configuration, documentation) to meet the business requirements
• Automate build, operate, and run aspects of software
• Drive code/design/process trade-off discussions within their team when required
• Report status and manage risks within their primary application/service
• Drive integration of services focusing on customer journey and experience
• Perform demos/acceptance discussions in interacting with Product owners
• Understands operational and engineering experience, actively works to improve experience and metrics in ownership area
• Develop complete understanding of end-to-end technical architecture and dependency systems
• Drive adoption of technology standards and opinionated frameworks, and review coding, test, and automation work of team members
• Mentor and guide new and less-experienced team members
• Identify opportunities to improve an overall process and trim waste
• Share and seek knowledge within their Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns/libraries/practices and enhance productivity

 
All About You
Technical Qualifications
It is not expected that any single candidate would have expertise across all these areas:
• Desired Skills:
Platform engineering skills
• Have Experience with Kubernetes platform technologies. RedHat Openshift , Helm, Logging & Monitoring
MLOPS experience would be a plus
Python ML, Spark, Jupytor notebook, DataScience Pipeline etc.
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization.
• Has skills to orchestrate release workflows and pipelines, and apply standardized pipelines via APIs to achieve CI and CD using industry standard tools (e.g., Jenkins, AWS/Azure pipelines, XL Release, others).
• Excellent influencing and reasoning skills; good at conflict resolution and consensus building.
• Proficient in developing enterprise solutions.
• Experience in IaaS and PaaS implementations covering monitoring, configuration management, and orchestration.
• Knowledge of web concepts, infrastructure technologies and tools.
• Demonstrated experience working on projects that span multiple IT functions where analysis of systems or data requires an in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards.
• Experience working across a matrixed environment
• Firewalls/Security Groups
• DNS Routing
• VM Configuration (vSphere, ESXi)
• Security Administration
• Auto-Scaling, Containerization, Application Load balancers, etc.
• Cost Management on Cloud infrastructure
• Serverless architectures
• Cloud storage management
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Logging, Monitoring, Alerting, Tracing sizing and tuning
Required:
• Bachelor's degree required
• Cloud Architect experience
• hands on Cloud Engineering experience
• Must have experience with on-premise cloud architecture, development, and engineering
• GO / Python Development
Nice to have MLOps understanding .
• Nice to have CKA, CKAD, OpenShift EX280/Ex380

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.