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Principal Software Engineer, Cloud Architect page is loaded Principal Software Engineer, Cloud Architectlocations: Toronto, Canada (Ethoca)time type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todaytime left to apply: End Date: May 15, 2026 (20 days left to apply)job requisition id: R-275315 Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping buildsustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We supportwide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliverunique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Principal Software Engineer, Cloud Architect Mastercard isglobal 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 buildingsustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. Overview To support our continued growth and success, we are seekingCloud 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. RoleEngage with technical and non-technical team members on delivering large scale cloud migration initiatives across multiple Ethoca product linesDesign, 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 computingMaintain Architecture principals and Strategy, Roadmap for Ethoca's cloud journeyCreate POCs to validate fit for purposeImplement 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 casesEvaluate emerging AI and automation services within Azure to improve system intelligence, operational efficiency, and decision-making.Bechange agent for adopting best practices All About YouComputer Science, Engineering degree, or equivalent experience.Expert in implementing cloud-based solution architectures withfocus on AzureStrong hands-on professional experience with Python is requiredProven track record of successfully migrating on-premises applications to AzureSolid understanding of distributed systemsExperience 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 SaaSIn-depth experience with Azure stack implementation, with hands-on experience with App Services, Azure SQL Database, NoSQL, Azure Networking, Express Route, DNS, Load Balancing, StorageExperience with setting upcontinuous delivery