Senior Principal Software Architect, MarTech & Cloud

Mastercard Inc.

Malahide

Hybrid

EUR 150,000 - 190,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Principal, Software Architect to shape a unified Marketing Technology platform and lead architectural decisions across Product, Engineering and Technology. This hands-on role focuses on scalable, secure, and observable systems with strong cross-team impact.

You will drive a North Star architecture for the Customer Acquisition & Engagement ecosystem, orchestrate phased migrations, and mentor architects while collaborating with senior executives to achieve business

Qualifications

Experience delivering enterprise-scale architecture and platform strategy.
Strong hands-on software engineering and cloud, APIs, data architectures.
Proven use of generative AI within engineering workflows and governance.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the North Star architecture for the ecosystem.
Develop phased architecture roadmaps with clear priorities and tradeoffs.
Lead architecture across large-scale distributed systems for scalability and security.
Drive MarTech ecosystem integration: customer data, identity, audiences, personalization, offers.
Define enterprise architecture patterns and reusable components for engineering teams.
Partner with product, engineering and business to align decisions with strategy.
Evaluate complex technical challenges and prototype solutions.
Provide hands-on technical leadership across cloud platforms and IaC.
Guide decisions with privacy, security, resilience and cost in mind.
Mentor engineers and influence teams without direct authority.