Director of Software Engineering

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

Director of Software Engineering

Job Overview:
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global 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 building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Job Overview:
We are seeking a highly knowledgeable and experienced individual in leading software development teams. This role involves providing management direction through to delivery, recommending strategic directions based on established policies, and leading and managing staff. The position includes ensuring staffing, training, and objective setting, as well as recommending and implementing policy changes. Interaction with developers and requestors to identify project scope is also a key responsibility.
Major Accountabilities:
• Manage complex projects through to successful delivery based on requirement and priorities.
• Clear communication on both technical and non-technical updates.
• Support production projects.
• Maintain approved staffing levels and ensure departmental and staff education, training, and cross-training needs are met.
• Ensure staff possess the skills and behaviors necessary to perform tasks effectively through clear communication of goals, objectives, performance, and improvement plans.
Education:
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in a related functional area or equivalent work experience with exposure to management theories and concepts.
Knowledge / Experience:
• Over 8 years of experience in software solutions delivery.
• Experience preparing and delivering executive-level presentations to business and technology audiences.
• Experience mentoring and developing resources in a high-performance culture.
• Management of both contractors and full time staff
Skills / Abilities:
• Ability to translate highly complex technical matters into easily digestible and actionable plans.
• Proactive management and communication of arising issues through to successful solution.
• Ability to lead and manage senior technical individual contributors and management staff, fostering open communication across various organizational levels.
• Skills to motivate direct and indirect reports to deliver superior results.
• Ability to provide functional and directional guidance to staff and recommend policy or strategic direction changes to management.
• Ability to interact across multiple organizational levels and assume a lead role in setting direction for large or complex projects.

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.