Director, Software Engineering

Our Purpose

We 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 culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Director, Software Engineering

All About Us:
MasterCard is a technology company in the global payments business. We connect consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses worldwide and enable them to use secure and convenient electronic forms of payment.

Join the industry’s most passionate, motivated & engaged global team - Our employees are encouraged to drive innovation every day in support of a more connected world – A World Beyond Cash.

Overview:

The MasterCard D&S Technology application development team is engaged in working with new and innovative technologies to build business solutions that keep MasterCard positioned as a leader in delivering value added business analytic and reporting solutions to our diverse customer base. We work collaboratively with our product partners and other technical teams to continuously improve and enhance our existing products and drive new products to the global marketplace. We are currently seeking candidates that will be responsible to:

• Support overall architecture and design on development projects, production issues, and maintenance ensuring quality across staff, contractors and vendors
• Have an eye for Innovation and bring in new ideas which can transform the technology landscape of the program

Have you ever brought a product to market on a global scale?
Are you motivated to be a part of driving a world beyond cash?
Have you led a team of Techies in a technical capacity?
Role:

This position is a member of the MasterCard Data and Services Technology focusing on development of Enterprise Application Development.
• Participate in the gathering of business requirement. Own the engineering roadmap for products
Ensure that the engineering roadmap maps very closely map to the engineering roadmap
• Ensure software designs align with MasterCard’s Enterprise Architecture and leverage our enterprise services.
• Ensure product development meets MasterCard’s business needs.
• Ensure development teams use the appropriate MasterCard standard development methodologies and follow our technology standards, and that all projects and development are appropriately documented.
• Ensure that software and system design and delivery support the goal of zero down time in production.
• Work closely with business partners on product definition, product roadmaps, business case development, and overall direction for the team.
• Proven knowledge and Skills on NFRs like scalability, availability, resilience and others.
• Ensure development supports all appropriate certifications and compliance requirements, including those for PCI, GDPR and other Security requirements.
•Responsible for performance engineering of the enterprise software architecture, and providing functional guidance, advice, and/or training to other application developers and Leads.

All About You:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent work experience
• Excellent Communication skills required to interact across multiple organizational levels of internal and external customer groups.
• owning the product roadmap and having a long term architectural vision for the product
• A proficient Polyglot developer.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with quick adaptation to new technologies, methodologies, and systems
•High-energy, detailed-oriented, proactive and able to function under pressure in an independent environment along with a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results.
•Strong interpersonal, relationship-building with a solid track record for developing internal and external
•Proficient working with J2EE, Java 8 or higher, Spring, Hibernate, and Database (Oracle, SQL Server)
• Experience in the following a plus:
• Proficient with API based design and Development.
• Proficient and proven track record of working with Different Design and Architecture landscape.
• Experience with various tools( Gradle/Maven, Eclipse/IntelliJ, Visual Studio, Jenkins, SOnar Cube, Chef) and methodologies ( Waterfall, Agile)
• Exposure to trending technologies( AI/ML, IOT, Bot, Quantum Computing) and architectures is very good to have
Sound knowledge on tools involved during CICD.

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.