# Principal Software Engineer, Data Architecture

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, Data ArchitectureOverview:Mastercard's Data & Analytics organization is seeking a visionary Principal Software Engineer, Data Architecture to define and advance our global enterprise data architecture strategy. Reporting to the Vice President of Data Engineering, this role serves as the senior technical authority for how data is architected, governed, secured, and enabled across Mastercard's complex global ecosystem. The successful candidate will establish the architectural vision for modernizing data platforms across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments, supporting both high-volume batch processing and low-latency, real-time worklo

- **Id**: 104585
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/mastercard-principal-software-engineer-data-architecture-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-20T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-20
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T22:45:03Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 80
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7617
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Life insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cards & Card Issuing, Payment Processing & Gateways

## Company

- **Id**: 252
- **Name**: Mastercard
- **Domain**: mastercard.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/mastercard>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 175
- **Ghost share**: 0.023
- **Stale share**: 0.486
- **Repost share**: 0.074
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 27
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 195000
- **Max**: 323000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 323000

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **Apache NiFi** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Delta Lake** — Optional: no
- **Flink** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **GDPR** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 80

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-08-20T00:00:00Z
- Event: open; At: 2026-10-21T07:02:09Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 414 · green card filings: 190; Filings 12m: 414

## Liveness

- **Score**: 12
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.444
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 80
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:7, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 323000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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