Director - Full Stack - Java

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 - Full Stack - Java

Overview:
The Mastercard Fraud Platform team in India has an exciting opportunity for a Director to help an established team that will be working on designing and developing new capabilities on the Mastercard Fraud Management Platform. The Fraud Platform provides sophisticated business solutions to authenticate users and combat fraud.
· Are you passionate about low latency (the speed it takes to authorise a payment card), high volume (think Google searches and then some), and highly available (5 9s) software solutions?
· Would you like to work on a team that is building industry leading solutions for fighting fraud?
· Do you want to learn cutting edge technologies and help solve complex business problems? ...we would like to hear from you!

Role -
We are seeking an experienced and energetic Software Development Director to provide leadership and direction to deliver mission critical Fraud Platform solutions within the AI & DPE group in Mastercard. We are committed to bringing passion and a customer focus to everything we do.

The ideal candidate will be technically proficient with strong experience leading engineering teams. They will have full software lifecycle experience and a strong track record of delivery – from initial concept and design, to implementation and ultimately production.

As a member of the Software Development leadership team, you will be passionate about building a world class engineering team that enjoy what they do. A strong focus on quality is a must, as is seeking out and driving continuous improvements.

As a software development director, you will be responsible for solution delivery. You will be confident in advising the wider project team on matters of design, enhancements, optimization and implementation, while being commercially aware and able to make sound judgement calls.

Responsibilities
· Provide technical leadership for the development of the Fraud platform architecture into a micro-service driven cloud and on prem solution.
· Drive the next generation of our Fraud platform, balancing business and technical needs and finding compromises.
· Partner with Business and Product Owners to prioritize enhancements and drive strategic decisions.
· Manage multiple software development teams, including test engineers, analysts, scrum masters and development engineers.
· Recruit and retain top talent in the team
· Identify process gaps and suggest and implement improvements.
· Drive culture of continuous improvement on the team.
· Provide ongoing feedback and coaching to enable a high-performing team.

Skills
· 10+ years of engineering experience (development or devops) and significant management experience.
· Strong understanding of software best practices.
· Ability to drive architectural change which balances technical and business priorities
· Be a champion of engineering and operational excellence: developing organizational metrics for measurement of engineering and performance excellence.
· Ability to navigate a complex global organization.
· Experience in development of distributed/scalable systems and high-volume transaction applications.
· Experience databases, messaging and OO programming

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.