Manager, 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

Manager, Software Engineering

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.

Overview
The MDES team is looking for a Manager, Software Development Engineer who can lead and manage teams developing microservices based Enterprise applications using Java J2EE stack. Also, development of Portals which would be either used by customer care, end user, customer representatives etc. The ideal candidate is the one who is passionate about driving agile, technological & software engineering practices for a highly scalable, highly available enterprise grade payment application.

Role
• Exhibit Team leadership, mentor and motivate all around growth, manage team member’s professional aspirations
• Ensure that team is adhering to the industry best practices & company standards in terms of coding practices, process, tools & technologies
• Ensure that team is delivering high quality work as per the customer needs by actively participating as necessary in scrum ceremonies (like Refining, planning, product demo, retrospective), pair programming & code review.
• Assist Technical Program Managers in Project Planning, schedule, dependency management, risk identification and mitigation
• Monitor the program metrics & work with the team to maintain and strive to exceed them
• Work with Product Manager-Technical to ensure that the team have enough backlog
• Conduct Performance assessment, participate and/or lead recruitment to ramp up a new or existing team, actively participate organization’s process & initiatives (especially people management)

All About You
Essential knowledge, skills & attributes
• Strong experience of leading, people managing at least 2-3 scrum teams.
• Good Knowledge and experience of SDLC processes (Waterfall, Scrum, Agile framework, principles)
• Strong experience of managing a software product development involving highly scalable, highly available enterprise grade application. Preferably in Payments domain.
• Good Knowledge and experience of using Project Management tools like MS Project, JIRA, Rally
• Experience of developing application in Java, Java EE/Spring, RESTful web services, Tomcat, Oracle/MySQL. Desirable to have hands on experience of designing & developing microservice application & deploying them on any one of the public cloud like Google, AWS, Azure
• Primary knowledge of Design Patterns & Security concepts (E.g. authentication, authorization, confidentiality etc.) and protocols their usage in enterprise application
• Strong and effective Written & Verbal communication

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.