Senior Technical Architect, Payments Platform

Mastercard; O’Fallon (MO); On-site; USD 170,000 - 281,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Principal Architect to lead architecture and design for MDES services in a highly scalable payment application. You will mentor engineers, drive non-functional requirements, and partner with product and engineering teams to shape high-level solutions.

The role focuses on microservices, cloud deployments, security concepts, and modern design practices for enterprise-grade systems within the payments space.

Qualifications

• Senior-level technical leadership experience
• Strong hands-on with Java/Spring stack
• Experience building scalable enterprise payments systems

Responsibilities

• Lead platform/solution architecture design addressing non-functional requirements
• Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to draft high level design
• Develop critical components and proof-of-concepts for new use cases
• Conduct code reviews and mentor team members
• Write and review design documentation
• Manage SCM operations: branching, merging, tagging
• Explore upcoming technologies to improve solutions
• Ensure adherence to organizational processes and protect IP

Skills

Lead scrum team

Core Java

Spring Boot

Spring MVC

Spring IOC

Spring AOP

Security concepts

SQL

Oracle

PostgreSQL

NoSQL Cassandra

JSON Web Services

SOAP

Kafka

Zookeeper

Microservices

Cloud platforms

IntelliJ

Eclipse

Maven

Git

Agile

Design Patterns

Security protocols

Tools

IntelliJ

Eclipse

MyEclipse

MS Visio

PlantUML

Job description

Mastercard is seeking a Principal Architect to lead architecture and design for MDES services in a highly scalable payment application. You will mentor engineers, drive non-functional requirements, and partner with product and engineering teams to shape high-level solutions.

The role focuses on microservices, cloud deployments, security concepts, and modern design practices for enterprise-grade systems within the payments space.