Principal Software Engineer, Cloud Architect

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 Software Engineer, Cloud Architect
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
To support our continued growth and success, we are seeking a Cloud Architect with extensive experience on Azure. The incumbent will work closely with scrum teams and Production Operations to ensure smooth migration of existing or new applications to Azure. You will be overseeing the end-to-end solution of our migration strategy to the cloud while ensuring they are scalable, resilient, compliant and most of all contributing to the overall company goals. This role will also contribute to enabling AI-driven and data-intensive solutions by designing scalable, secure, and compliant cloud platforms on Azure.
Role• Engage with technical and non-technical team members on delivering large scale cloud migration initiatives across multiple Ethoca product lines• Design, Deploy and maintain enterprise-class security, network, and systems management applications within an Azure environment.• Design and implement availability, scalability, performance, and disaster recovery plans for the Azure platform.• Provide thought leadership in cloud computing• Maintain Architecture principals and Strategy, Roadmap for Ethoca's cloud journey• Create POCs to validate fit for purpose• Implement process and quality improvements through task automation. Institute infrastructure as code and automation with Terraform reusable modules.• Build secure cloud-native Infrastructure and platform solutions supporting highly available real-time use cases• Evaluate emerging AI and automation services within Azure to improve system intelligence, operational efficiency, and decision-making.• Be a change agent for adopting best practices
All About You• Computer Science, Engineering degree, or equivalent experience.• Expert in implementing cloud-based solution architectures with a focus on Azure• Strong hands-on professional experience with Python is required• Proven track record of successfully migrating on-premises applications to Azure• Solid understanding of distributed systems• Experience designing high throughput horizontally scalable systems (10k TPS)• Experience in architecting, designing and administration of hybrid and public cloud Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and SaaS• In-depth experience with Azure stack implementation, with hands-on experience with App Services, Azure SQL Database, NoSQL, Azure Networking, Express Route, DNS, Load Balancing, Storage• Experience with setting up a continuous delivery pipeline to production (Jenkins, Log Analytics, Azure DevOps)• Experience supporting or enabling AI/ML platforms and analytics workloads on Azure (e.g., Azure ML, Synapse Analytics, Data Factory).• Good understanding of data governance and how regulations can impact data storage and processing solutions such as GDPR and PCI• Soft Skills such as writing proposals and presenting up to C-Levels is a must
Desirable and Nice to Have:• One or more Microsoft Azure Certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect Expert, DevOps Engineer Expert)• Hands-on experience with Python scripting or automation for cloud operations, tooling, or data workflows• Strong documentation skills and experience contributing to architecture review boards or design councils
Mastercard is a merit-based, 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. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. 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 Canada, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive pay based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program. This posting reflects one or more current openings on our team.
Pay Ranges
Toronto, Canada: $154,000 - $247,000 CAD