Principal Software Engineer, Cloud Architect

Mastercard • Toronto, ON

7d • $154,000 - $247,000

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• competitive pay based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role
• may be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior