Lead Software Engineer_

O'fallon

**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 (astercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) 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.

**Title and Summary**

Lead Software Engineer

Lead Cloud 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

The Global Open Banking team is looking for a Lead Cloud Software Engineer to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical and agile mindset.

Role

In this role, you will:

• Participate in the implementation of new systems, develop strategic thinking and develop process, tools, and frameworks to help ensure effectiveness across teams

• Be responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions

• Define requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices

• Plan and execute maintenance, upgrades, and migrations activities in different environments as Dev, Stage, and Prod

• Design and develop resilient scalable infrastructure that avoids downtime and service interruptions

• Interface with external logging, monitoring, and security vendors

• Build out infrastructure as code, standard system images, and application images in Docker

• Oversees and provides technical support to junior team members

• Provide oncall coverage on rotation basis

All About You

Skills and experience required to be successful in this role:

• Managing medium-sized project/initiatives as an individual contributor with advanced knowledge within discipline, leading a segment of several initiatives or a larger initiative, or formally supervise a small team, and assigns day-to-day work

• Design and develop applications, system to system interfaces and complete software solutions, performs vendor-related activities, and creates documentation such as user guides and software development guides

• Oversee and provide technical support to junior team members

• Significant advanced code development, code review and modest day-to-day support duties

• Expertise in AWS Cloud, developing solution offerings for new and existing Cloud projects. Demonstrate a advanced level of knowledge and understanding of various AWS service offerings

• Kubernetes experience, managing large scale Kubernetes clusters. Experience with kops or Rancher or any equivalent provided cluster, alternate CNIs and managing scalability of the cluster

• Infrastructure as Code Experience, demonstrate advanced level of programming methodologies used to augment terraform using Python, bash, or Go and related programming tools such as VSCode and git

• Expertise in Kubernetes cluster backup and restoration techniques and tools

• Be creative with solutioning yet be simple with implementation

Technology, Tools Required:

Kubernetes – Certified Kubernetes Administrator level expertise

AWS – Solution Architect Professional or Associate level expertise

Kops/Rancher/EKS – Cluster provisioning tool expert level experience

Terraform – IaC expert level experience

CI/CD – Gitlab or equivalent continuous delivery tool expertise

Linux – Linux expertise and Certifications

Cluster back and restore tech stack

Autoscaling Kubernetes nodes – scaling solutions

RBAC configuration for cluster access

Service mesh – experience managing a large scale prod environment

Corporate Security Responsibility

Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

Mastercard is an inclusive equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

**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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

**Pay Ranges**

Salt Lake City, Utah: $138,000 - $221,000 USD

O'Fallon, Missouri: $138,000 - $221,000 USD