Principal Software Engineer, AI Platform & Transformation

Mastercard; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Principal Engineer for the Advisors & Transformation group to accelerate consulting transformation through AI and technology. The role designs a scalable AI Platform to drive AI productivity, enable AI commercialization, and integrate with partners and platforms.

Close collaboration with enterprise AI, data governance, security, and product teams is expected to deliver reusable, production-ready capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of full-stack engineering in an agile production environment.
• Experience executing a technology strategy for a market.

Responsibilities

• Design and build a scalable, reusable AI Platform for the program.
• Help drive AI enablement across the wider group.
• Lead technical design and architecture, ensuring scalability, security, and performance.
• Support ongoing initiatives and lead technical design and drive solutions and implementation with key stakeholders.
• Drive migration efforts for key components toward the future state architecture.
• Help define and implement a strategy towards future state architecture.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative AI solutions that enhance user experience and accelerate digital transformation.
• Help ensure solutions align with Mastercard technology standards, architecture expectations, operating requirements, security, reliability, and scale needs.
• Mentor engineering teams and establish best practices.
• Serve as the architecture advisor for new business opportunities, ensuring technical feasibility, capability needs, and architecture implications are considered early in the opportunity lifecycle.
• Partner with product, business, sourcing, and engineering teams to shape opportunity hypotheses, solution concepts, business cases, and early feasibility assessments.

Skills

Distributed systems

Full-stack engineering

Agile development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Job description

Mastercard is seeking a Principal Engineer for the Advisors & Transformation group to accelerate consulting transformation through AI and technology. The role designs a scalable AI Platform to drive AI productivity, enable AI commercialization, and integrate with partners and platforms.

Close collaboration with enterprise AI, data governance, security, and product teams is expected to deliver reusable, production-ready capabilities.