Fintech F-1 STEM OPT Sponsorship Jobs in Missouri
Fintech F-1 STEM OPT sponsorship jobs in Missouri are concentrated in Kansas City and St. Louis, where companies like Jack Henry & Associates, Cerner (Oracle Health), and regional fintech startups actively hire data engineers, software developers, and quantitative analysts. Missouri's growing financial technology sector offers STEM OPT-eligible graduates meaningful pathways into payments, banking software, and financial data infrastructure.
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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
BizOps Engineer II
Who is Mastercard
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible.
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.
Overview
The BizOps team is looking for a BizOps Engineer II who can:
- Be a production readiness steward for the Crypto Services platform, by managing, mitigating, or elevating awareness of the business risk of all customer interactions with Mastercard’s technology platforms
- Linking every technology recommendation with a business value, continuously monitoring platform health indicators, and elevating awareness when one of our main objectives is at risk
- Proactively manage production and change activities to maximize customer experience, and increase the overall value of supported applications
- Centralizing points of interaction for both internal and external partners by communicating effectively with all key stakeholders
- Help us solve problems and support daily operations with a distinct focus on triage, impact mitigation and root cause identification through a depth of knowledge for corresponding products
- Align Product and Customer Focused priorities with Operational needs
- Automate all things by having a low tolerance for manual work and drive towards CI/CD concepts and processes
Business Operations is leading the DevOps transformation at Mastercard through our tooling and by being an advocate for change & standards throughout the development, quality, release, and product organizations. We need team members with an appetite for change and pushing the boundaries of what can be done with automation. Experience in working across development, operations, and product teams to prioritize needs and to build relationships is a must.
Role
The role of business operations is to be the production readiness steward for the platform. This is accomplished by closely partnering with developers to design, build, implement, and support technology services. A business operations engineer will ensure operational criteria like system availability, capacity, performance, monitoring, self-healing, and deployment automation are implemented throughout the delivery process. Business Operations plays a key role in leading the DevOps transformation at Mastercard through our tooling and by being an advocate for change and standards throughout the development, quality, release, and product organizations.
We accomplish this transformation through supporting daily operations with a hyper focus on triage and then root cause by understanding the business impact of our products. The goal of every biz ops team is to shift left to be more proactive and upfront in the development process, and to proactively manage production and change activities to maximize customer experience, and increase the overall value of supported applications. Biz Ops teams also focus on risk management by tying all our activities together with an overarching responsibility for compliance and risk mitigation across all our environments. A biz ops focus is also on streamlining and standardizing traditional application specific support activities and centralizing points of interaction for both internal and external partners by communicating effectively with all key stakeholders.
Ultimately, the role of biz ops is to align Product and Customer Focused priorities with Operational needs. We regularly review our run state not only from an internal perspective, but also understanding and providing the feedback loop to our development partners on how we can improve the customer experience of our applications.
All About You
- Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement
- Analyze ITSM activities of the platform and provide feedback loop to development teams on operational gaps or resiliency concerns
- Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, operational resiliency, capacity planning and launch reviews
- Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health
- Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
- Support the application CI/CD pipeline for promoting software into higher environments through validation and operational gating, and lead Mastercard in DevOps automation and best practices
- Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
- Take a holistic approach to problem solving, by connecting the dots during a production event thru the various technology stack that makes up the platform, to optimize mean time to recover
- Work with a global team spread across tech hubs in multiple geographies and time zones
Qualifications
- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent practical experience
- Background working with Azure, Google Cloud and AWS is a distinct advantage
- Experience and familiarity with Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) and Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) is a distinct advantage
- Experience with algorithms, data structures, scripting, pipeline management, and software design
- Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
- Ability to help debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks
- Apply technical and business knowledge of cryptographic concepts and functionality to effectively support Crypto Service applications
- We support many different stakeholders. Experience in dealing with difficult situations and making decisions with a sense of urgency is needed
- Experience in one or more of the following is preferred: C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl or Ruby
- Interest in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- Self-motivated and highly collaborative
- Comfortable working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
- We need team members with an appetite for change and pushing the boundaries of what can be done with automation. Experience in working across development, operations, and product teams to prioritize needs and to build relationships is a must
- Experience in industry-standard CI/CD tools like Git/BitBucket, Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory, and Chef. Experience designing and implementing an effective and efficient CI/CD flow that gets code from dev to prod with high quality and minimal manual effort is desired.
Mastercard is a merit-based, 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. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. 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 and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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 of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 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; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.
Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $76,000 - $127,000 USD
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Search Fintech Jobs in MissouriFintech Jobs in Missouri: Frequently Asked Questions
Which fintech companies in Missouri are known to sponsor F-1 STEM OPT workers?
Kansas City-based Jack Henry & Associates, which provides core banking and payment technology to financial institutions, has a documented history of hiring STEM-eligible candidates. Cerner (now Oracle Health) in Kansas City and Mastercard's technology hub in St. Louis also appear in DOL Labor Condition Application filings for STEM-relevant roles. Regional fintech startups and subsidiaries of national financial firms operating in Missouri round out the sponsoring employer pool.
Which cities in Missouri have the most fintech F-1 STEM OPT sponsorship jobs?
Kansas City is Missouri's primary fintech employment hub, home to a concentration of banking technology firms, payments companies, and financial data providers. St. Louis offers a secondary market anchored by Mastercard's operations, regional banks with technology divisions, and a developing startup ecosystem in the Cortex Innovation Community. Columbia and Springfield have smaller fintech presences, primarily through remote roles with employers headquartered elsewhere in the state.
What types of fintech roles typically qualify for F-1 STEM OPT sponsorship in Missouri?
Roles that qualify for STEM OPT must fall under a STEM-designated Classification of Instructional Programs code tied to the graduate's degree. In fintech, qualifying positions commonly include software engineer, data engineer, data scientist, machine learning engineer, quantitative analyst, and cybersecurity analyst. Roles in product management or sales typically do not qualify unless the position description is fundamentally technical and the graduate's degree is STEM-classified. Employers confirm STEM OPT eligibility through E-Verify enrollment, which is required by USCIS.
How do I find fintech F-1 STEM OPT sponsorship jobs in Missouri?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically for employers with verified F-1 STEM OPT sponsorship history in the fintech sector, including Missouri-based companies. Searching by state and visa type on Migrate Mate surfaces roles from employers whose DOL Labor Condition Application filings confirm active sponsorship activity, which is more reliable than interpreting general job postings that may not disclose sponsorship availability. Narrowing by city, such as Kansas City or St. Louis, helps identify local hiring pipelines.
Are there any Missouri-specific considerations for F-1 STEM OPT workers in fintech?
Missouri does not impose state-level work authorization requirements beyond federal USCIS rules, so STEM OPT eligibility is governed entirely by federal standards. However, fintech employers in Missouri that serve federally regulated financial institutions may require background checks and security clearances that can affect hiring timelines for international candidates. Missouri's fintech sector also skews toward established banking technology firms rather than early-stage startups, meaning sponsoring employers tend to have formal HR processes and experience managing STEM OPT and subsequent H-1B visa transitions.