Software Engineer Manager

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

Software Engineer Manager

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

Global Risk & Compliance team is looking for a strong, people focused Manager to lead development teams. We are looking for Managers who can bring unique perspectives, have strong people management and mentorship skills, and have experience leading teams through the ever changing technology landscape. In this role, you will lead multiple Teams through various projects which are critical to Mastercard, leveraging technologies such as Pivotal Cloud Foundry and microservice architecture while using Agile/SAFe methodologies.

An ideal candidate is someone who has excellent verbal and written communication skills, who has a passion inspiring others and helping them grow their career, who enjoys solving problems in a challenging environment, and who has the desire to take their career to the next level. If any of these opportunities excite you, we would love to talk.

Role
• Responsible for leading a team of IT Professionals for the development and delivery of quality software solutions in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Hands-on technical leader that brings considerable experience doing application development for customer facing applications using a broad range of technologies.
• Interacts with technology staff including Software and Test Engineers, Product management, and Program management to identify scope of project/s and deliver services.
• Successfully lead definition, development and delivery of major cross-department initiatives with broad scope and long-term business implications.
• Partner with business to identify innovative solutions and drive strategic decisions. Develop business case in alignment with the MasterCard objectives.
• Actively look for opportunities for Innovation and creative problem solving. Make presentations to the Senior Management, Business Owners and other Stakeholders and help them in decision making process.
• Responsible for hiring and developing engineering talent
• Owner of one or more major functional areas of our code.

 
All About You
• You are a hands-on, technical and people leader. You regularly dive deep into everything your team does.
• Your leadership style is based on building trust with your team, your peers, and your management.
• You are high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and adaptive and can work in a dynamic environment.
• You possess strong communication skills - both verbal and written – and are able to get your point across efficiently to a wide range of audiences.
• You are obsessed with results, and effectively communicate objectives and how success will be measured to your team and other stakeholders.
• You have strong decision-making skills, and you have a bias for action rather than drawn-out analysis because you understand that most decisions are not irreversible.
• You regularly lead retrospection, and continually improve as a result.
• You have strong collaborative and organizational skills and you value transparency over avoiding scrutiny.
• You understand how to guide an engineer’s career including performance evaluation, coaching, and motivation.
• You are experienced in distributed system design and implementation, and understand how to build high-performance, high-reliability operation of large-scale distributed systems. You master consensus mechanisms, partitioning and sharding, and reliability engineering.
• You have expert level knowledge of software development processes, and you practice Agile at an advanced level.
• You have experience and knowledge of Test Driven and Domain Driven Development (TDD / DDD).
• You are an experienced user of one or more Application Lifecycle Management tools (e.g., Rally, Jira).
• As a leader, you own your code repositories. You are a Git expert and have experience with one or more SCM hosting tools such as GitHub or BitBucket. Your repositories look like trees, not bushes.
• You are experienced with CI/CD.

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.