Job Description

Our PurposeWe work 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. We cultivate a for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team \xe2\x80\x93 one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.Title and SummaryDirector, Software Engineering"About EthocaAt Ethoca, you can join a team of top business and technology innovators who are transforming the industry. We are changing the payments landscape and reinventing the way global merchants and issuers combat fraud and reduce costs. Our services allow customers to focus on what really matters - increasing sales and creating a great customer experience. Our relentless customer focus is what makes us an award-winning company.We believe that when people come together, it unlocks potential. Our collaborative environment enables our teams to deliver and develop solutions that provide safety, security and convenience for our customers.Ethoca is a place where risk-takers thrive, change makers excel, and innovators shape a better tomorrow. Innovation requires taking thoughtful risks and moving with speed and agility, so that\xe2\x80\x99s what we do. We invite our employees to bring their hearts, minds and whole selves to work every day to push boundaries and dream up new possibilities. Let\xe2\x80\x99s create new possibilities together.The Position:
Ethoca is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to join our team to lead data enablement and explore big data solutions within our technology landscape. This senior role is visible and critical as part of a high performing team \xe2\x80\x93 it will appeal to you if you have an effective combination of domain knowledge, relevant experience, and the ability to execute on the details.
You will bring cutting edge software and full stack development skills, data lake experience with a solid cloud platform background. Expectation is that you are hands on and capable of working with massive data volumes. You will own this \xe2\x80\x93 our teams are small, agile, and focused on the needs of the high growth fintech marketplace.
We are committed in making our systems resilient and responsive yet easily maintainable.Your Challenge:
Drive the architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions and policies while owning the development of applications, services, user interfaces. Maintaining and scaling existing applications is imperative and part of your portfolio. Applications are built on data that resides in the data warehouse so we expect the successful candidate will always have attention to detail: configuration, maintenance, security and reliability of data and Data Services in the different environments as we build out a state-of-the-art analytics foundation:

• Hands-on responsibility for architecture with code development across environments with the capability to write high quality, secure code that is modular, functional, and testable
• Design and build technology roadmaps to optimize services and functions focusing on performance, security, and cost/benefit optimization
• Key leader/contributor in the software development life cycle (i.e. design, development, documentation, testing, deployment, support)
• Be proactive and predictive, solve problems before they occur
• Plan deployments, migrations, and upgrades to minimize service impacts with mitigation plans
• Understand and tune performance across all physical and logical dimensions
• Support Ethoca\xe2\x80\x99s architects and engineers as they design and build effective, agile applications
• Use your experience to help shape and scale the future of our development and production infrastructure
• Work efficiently within a high security, PII and PCI-DSS Level 1 environment
• Communicate clearly and effectively while demonstrating ownership
• Self-starter that explores opportunities for efficiencies and propose options to bridge gaps that exists

Here\xe2\x80\x99s what sets you apart:

• 5+ years of full stack application development experience together with architecture experience
• Proficiency with cloud technologies (IaaS, PaaS, serverless technology, NoSQL databases), micro-service design, DevOps
• Degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field including programming
• Excellent SQL and higher-level programming languages
• Solid understanding of securing applications by design, performance by design
• Strong analytical and excellent problem-solving skills
• Good understanding of 12-Factor App methodology
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages such as NodeJS, Java, Java Script, etc. are mandatory
• Experience working:

o In a Data Warehousing and BI environment with understanding of warehousing concepts
o With Source Control System (SCS) is a must \xe2\x80\x93 preferably \xe2\x80\x9cGit\xe2\x80\x9d source control
o With application frameworks (i.e. Springboot)
o With a single page application framework (SPA)
\xef\x82\xa7 Example: VueJS or ReactJS

• Strong understanding and working knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment concepts.
• Quick learner with the ability to pick up new ideas and concepts quickly
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Top notch problem solving and analytical skills
• Mentor and teacher of new technologies and design patterns

Nice to have:

• Python and R experience
• Understanding of Cloud Foundry application platform
• Working knowledge of data mining, machine learning algorithms and tools

o Power BI, Azure AD

• Reporting/Dashboarding tool/s experience

Ideally you have experience in banking, e-commerce, credit cards or payment processing and exposure to both SaaS and premises-based architectures. In addition, you have a post-secondary degree in computer science, mathematics, or a quantitative science and at least 5 plus years of increasingly responsible work experience."Corporate Security ResponsibilityAll 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\xe2\x80\x99s security policies and practices;Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;Report any suspected information security violation or breach, andComplete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard\xe2\x80\x99s guidelines.

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