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:
As part of an exciting, fast paced environment developing payment authentication and security solutions, this position will provide technical leadership and expertise within the development lifecycle for ecommerce payment authentication platform.

Role:
This position provides leadership to large, diverse, technology centers supporting MasterCard Business Partners processing needs and internal and external customer requirements. Financial, organizational and policy responsibilities are included within this position.

Major Accountabilities:
• Provide leadership and strategic direction to multiple teams and/or functional areas.
• Ensure approved staffing levels are maintained, departmental and staff education, training and cross training needs are met.
• Ensure that staff has skills and behaviors to perform tasks fully through effective communication of goals, objectives, performance and, as necessary, improvement plans.
• Review, approve and ensure the implementation of new or revised operational processes and procedures.
• Provide appropriate resources and budget to deliver timely, effective, efficient and predictable processing services and continuing improvement of performance.
• Respond to operational and business concerns or issues relative to future business programs, projects, or enhancements to ensure consistent delivery of quality services.

Education: Bachelor's Degree in related functional area or equivalent work experience. Advanced degree highly desirable.

Knowledge / Experience:
• Experience managing multiple functional areas especially in the EMVCO 3DS Payments domain.
• Experience developing and managing departmental budgets covering multiple discipline areas. • Formal business or management training including Project Management, Financial Management and Strategic Planning.
• 5+ years of experience in related EMVCO 3DS Payments field, with progressively increasing responsibility.
• Understanding of and extensive experience with Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies.
• Proven ability to lead large complex projects and the ability to work effectively with all areas within Global Technology Operations, Corporate Groups and outside solution providers.
• Proven verbal and written communications skills are a requirement for this role and experience with the following deliverables is critical: requirements documents, design documents, and project financial analysis.

Skills/ Abilities:
• Ability to acquire and retain top talent.
• Management skills necessary to provide functional and directional guidance to direct and indirect staff. Ability to set direction and assure appropriate business outcomes of large or complex projects.
• Ability to approve and implement policy and provide strategic direction for the organization.
• Excellent Communication skills required to interact across multiple organizational levels of internal and external customer groups.
• Lead teams to deliver high quality, secure, scalable software solutions based on technical requirements specifications and design artifacts within expected time and budget.
• Research, create and evaluate technical solution alternatives for the business needs.
• Follow standards in development and testing to ensure compliance with Audit Requirements.
• Follow MasterCard Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes.
• Support collection and reporting of project and software metrics.
• Actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency.
• Mentor and ramp-up junior team members.

All About you
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent education.
• Excellent understanding and knowledge of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies is required.
• Exposure to Agile is mandatory. SAFE Agile experience is desirable.
• 15+ years of experience in the software engineering field including Technical Leadership experience.
• Experience in Java, Junits, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate and web services. Working exposure to unix systems in beneficial.
• Understanding of design patterns
• Experience and knowledge of SQL, PL SQL and Oracle is preferred.
• Experience and knowledge of rest services is preferred.
• Working knowledge of cloud-based application development like PCF or Azure or any cloud platform is required.
• Working knowledge of micro services development is preferred.
• Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive, and able to function under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
• Strong communication skills -- both verbal and written - and able to quickly learn and implement new technologies, application appropriate frameworks and tools.
• Strong relationship, collaborative skills, and organizational skills with a high degree of initiative and self-motivation and Able to work as a member of matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team.
• Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities.
• Knowledge of payment domain esp. card payments domain is preferred.
• Application security, Circuit breaker, Rest API standards
• Knowledge of encryption, ssl and mutual ssl, signing, reactive programming, blue green deployment, resiliency, end to end tracing, wiremock spring cache, end to end tracing, open api specifications, crypto operations, load balance, secret vault, spring actuator, performance, sonar code, cloud.

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.