Principal Data Engineer-R-244315

Mastercard; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in the payments industry is seeking a Principal Data Engineer. This role involves leading the data platform growth, focusing on innovative solutions and cloud architecture, while ensuring performance, security, and compliance in high-security environments. If you have extensive experience in data engineering and a passion for using cutting-edge technology, this position could be your next great opportunity.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in complex, scalable data architectures.
• Technical SME in cloud data platforms, preferably Azure.
• Proficiency in ML and deployment in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Drive architectural design and support products in the cloud.
• Optimize technology roadmaps for performance and security.
• Lead development lifecycle for data applications and platforms.

Skills

Data engineering

Cloud architecture

Data lake expertise

Software development

Data science

Cloud technologies

Micro-service design

DevOps

NoSQL databases

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Cosmos

Postgres

Job description

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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

Principal Data Engineer

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.

Services within Mastercard are responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution. Do you have a passion for developing products using leading-edge technology that solve key industry pain points?

Role

Ethoca is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead our data platform growth across our product suite of solutions and technology landscape. This senior role is visible and critical as part of a high performing team. It will appeal to you if you have a strong combination of domain knowledge, relevant experience, and execution ability.

You will bring cutting-edge data engineering, data lake expertise, and software development experience with extensive cloud architecture background. You will be hands-on and capable of driving solutions and architecture to build and support our products. You will own this – our teams are small, agile, and focused on the needs of the high-growth fintech marketplace. We are committed to making our systems resilient, responsive, and easily maintainable.

You will drive architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies, while owning the development of data applications, services, and scaling the data platform in the cloud. Maintaining and scaling existing applications and platforms is imperative, with attention to detail in configuration, maintenance, security, and reliability across environments.

• Hands-on responsibility for data architecture across environments with the ability to write high-quality, secure, modular, functional, and testable code.
• Design and build technology roadmaps to optimize services focusing on performance, security, and cost / benefit.
• Implement tools that enable both internal and external customers.
• Lead and contribute to the data and software platform and data warehouse development lifecycle.
• Optimize performance across physical and logical dimensions.
• Support architects and engineers in designing effective, agile applications and platforms.
• Work within high-security environments, including PII and PCI-DSS compliance.

All About You

• Extensive experience in complex, scalable data and application architectures, working with large cross-functional teams.
• Deep experience with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Cosmos, Postgres, etc.), preferably in Azure, serving as a technical SME.
• Hands-on experience with data science, ML, and deployment in cloud environments.
• Proficiency with cloud technologies, micro-service design, DevOps, and NoSQL databases.
• Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, or similar technologies in cloud platforms.

Preferred experience in banking, e-commerce, credit cards, or payment processing, with exposure to SaaS and on-prem architectures.

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