Senior Platform Automation & Data Science Engineer

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

Senior Platform Automation & Data Science Engineer

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.

The Infrastructure and Automation Services (IAS) team at Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to enhance the speed of delivery for various DMP-related services. In this role, you’ll be responsible for coding and building high-quality, secure front-end and REST API/back-end components. The ideal candidate will have experience with Java, JavaScript, Angular, SQL, Spring, and Ruby(Chef). Additionally, familiarity with DevOps practices and Agile environments.

Role
• Responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions
• Defines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices
• Work closely with tech leads for assigned projects to assist in design and implementation tasks
• Participate in proof of concepts and help the department with selection of vendor solutions, technologies, methodologies and frameworks
• Actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency
• Be an integral part of the Agile SAFe discover and elaboration sessions by performing requirements and design reviews, peer code reviews and PCI security reviews to ensure compliance with MasterCard standards
• Estimate and own delivery tasks (design, dev, test, deployment, configuration, documentation) to meet the business requirements
• Triage automation issues along with other team members and conduct root cause analysis of critical issues.

All About You
• Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and can function under pressure in an independent environment
• Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities and to work as a member of diverse and geographically distributed team
• Knowledge of software development processes including agile processes and test-driven development
• Experience with the design and development of complex, multi-tier software solutions
• Competency using industry standard programming/scripting languages such as Java, Ruby, Groovy, Powershell, Java Script, GoLang, and HCL
• Experience with VMware vSphere at an enterprise level (vCenter, vRA, vRO, vROPS, etc)
• Able to do code checkouts, reviews, pull requests and approvals in a Git-based source code repository
• Understands Chef Infra / Habitat concepts and can read, modify or author chef cookbooks and Hab packages
• Strong troubleshooting skills in complex Linux/Windows systems environments
• Experience with logging infrastructure and using tools such as Splunk and Dynatrace
• Can setup and optimize Continuous Integration build jobs using Jenkins

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.