Senior Principal, AI Architect

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Title and Summary

Senior Principal, AI Architect

Job Title

Senior Principal, AI Architect

Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Tech Strategy and Transformation and working with the Mastercard Applied AI team, the Senior Principal is responsible for driving architecture and technology decisions on Mastercard's foundational Gen AI platform. This role is responsible for enabling value creation from data science programs by (a) aligning the selection and development of foundational capabilities to business needs, (b) ensuring AI systems conform to Mastercard standards concerning security, scalability, and localization, and (c) providing architecture guidance to AI developers to optimize their solutions.

The Role

1/ Aligning the selection and development of foundational capabilities to business needs

• Owning the technical architecture of Mastercard's foundational Gen AI platform

• Working with AI strategists to understand synthesized business needs and creating technical evaluation frameworks to select the optimal tech stack

• Hands-on prototyping of new technology and AI solutions

• Staying up to date with the latest AI trends/emerging technologies and look for opportunities to improve the stack.

• Selecting appropriate technologies from the many open source, commercial on-premises, and cloud-based offerings available.

2/ Ensuring AI systems conform to Mastercard standards concerning security, scalability, and localization

• Providing technical expertise during implementation of the foundational Gen AI platform and its enhancements.

• Building strong relationships with Architecture & Technology to ensure our solutions meet Mastercard standards constraints.

• Influencing dependent organization's roadmaps by contributing to their planning documents and goal setting exercises

• Helping the business and AI developers bulletproof functional and non-functional requirements - considering aspects like security, usability and stability

3/ Providing architecture guidance to AI developers to optimize their solutions

• Developing solution architectures that integrate ML models into real-world systems.

• Collaborating with business stakeholders, data scientists, MLOps engineers, and Technology partners.

• Assisting in the design of end-to-end solutions from data ingestion and processing to exposing APIs and applications for consumption

All about you

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering roles with 5+ in solution architecture and 2+ in AI.

• Ability to define target state technology architecture and roadmaps.

• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles

• Expert in data science scripting languages (python, R) and application languages (C, javascript, etc.)

• Experience with big data platforms such as Redshift, Snowflake and Hadoop

• Expert with cloud compute environments (AWS) along with cloud-native tools

• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles

• Demonstrated ability to balance the delivery of projects against the realities of a budget; and problem solving, project management and creative resourcefulness

• Experience in the payments domain preferred

• Graduate-level degree in computer science, engineering, or relevant work experience

Mastercard is an 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. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com 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 the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.