Director, Software Engineering - .NET / SaaS

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, Software Engineering - .NET / SaaS

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
Mastercard is looking for a talented Software Engineering Director to join the Mastercard Foundry Research and Development team in our Pune, India location. In this role you will be leading a highly agile team responsible for building a complex analytical SaaS product in collaboration with global cross-functional product and technology partners.

As part of our team, you will bring your technology and leadership skills to design, build, deploy, and release a scalable software platform used by customers as a critical component of their day-to-day operations. We are looking for an innovative software engineering director who will lead multiple teams responsible for a full stack web application and working closely with other areas of the business to build a solution that drives value for our customers.
Role
 Manage a team of talented engineers to deliver a high-quality full stack software application using agile methodologies
 Collaborate closely with product development on the product and technology roadmap for complex feature development and to inform technology and product decisions
 Lead the design and implementation of new application features, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability
 Manage, coach, and develop software engineers on feature design, implementation, and testing
 Ensure high application quality with a rigorous emphasis on regression, unit, performance, usability, and manual testing
 Partner with architecture and infrastructure teams to share technical requirements, provide input on roadmaps, and collaborate on solutions
 Identify short-term and long-term engineering needs and risks to scale platform solutions to scale platform to inform technology and product decisions
 Provide strategic leadership related to application, technology systems, and software-development methodologies
 Manage a contingent workforce, including budget and personnel

Ideal Candidate Qualifications
The ideal candidate for this position should have:
• Extensive experience leading the architecture, design, implementation, and release of complex products and applications that span across multiple engineering teams in agile productive environments
• Expertise in .NET/C#, Javascript, and Microsoft SQL Server
• Relentless focus and track record of delivering customer value
• Loves creating innovative products and technology solutions in a collaborative fun environment
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience identifying and implementing improvements to organizational structure and processes to equip and empower teams to own and deliver on their mission
• Experience leading teams across roles and geographies
• Motivation, creativity, self-direction and desire to thrive as a leader in a fast-paced organization
• Ability to support multiple concurrent activities and to interface with external / internal resources, working as a member of a geographically distributed project team.
• Experience recruiting, onboarding, and managing contingent workers
• Strong relationship, collaboration skills and organizational skills
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills

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.