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Director, Software Engineering

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Pune, Maharashtra
Senior level
Pune, Maharashtra
Senior level
The Director of Software Engineering oversees multiple software engineering teams, providing strategic leadership, managing project scopes, and ensuring staff development. The role involves recommending policy changes, approving operational processes, and delivering presentations to executives. Core technical skills include extensive experience with Java and Spring technologies, along with leadership in delivering enterprise-scale software solutions.
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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

Job Overview
Position with extensive understanding and knowledge of software operations with solid knowledge of required services. Provides management direction and recommends strategic directions based on established policy. Leads and manages staff and assures staffing, training and objective setting. Recommends policy changes and implementations. Interacts with developers and requestors to identify scope of project.
Major Accountabilities
• Experience in end-to-end solution and product architecture.
• Formally supervises and coaches multiple software engineering teams of multiple roles and is responsible for planning and business execution of goals and objectives
• Provides strategic leadership related to specific applications and systems, or software-development methodologies
• Understanding of Java, Spring Framework and experience leading multiple teams.
• Ensure that staff has skills and behaviours to perform tasks fully through effective communication of goals, objectives, performance and as necessary improvement plans. •Ensure development, review and implementation of policy changes based on approved recommendations with minimal customer or staff interruption.
• Review and approve the development or revision of operational processes and procedures.
• Recommend annual cost centre budget and ensure appropriate expenditures within that approved budget.
• Recommend strategic direction and policy changes.
• Advance operational and business concerns or issues relative to future business programs, projects, or enhancements that may affect consistent delivery of quality services.
Education
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience.
Knowledge / Experience:
• 12+ years of proven experience in software engineering delivery leadership at enterprise scale
• In depth Experience development applications in Java, Spring Boot
• Experience preparing & delivering executive level presentations to business and technology audiences.
• Experience mentoring and developing resources in a high performance culture.
Skills/ Abilities:
• Ability to translate highly complex technical matters into easily digestible and actionable plans.
• In depth Experience development applications in Java, Spring Boot
• Requires the ability to lead and manage senior technical individual contributor and management staffs with the ability to foster open communications across various organizational levels. Requires skills to motivate direct and indirect reports to deliver superior results.
• Requires the skills to provide functional and directional guidance to staff and recommend policy or strategic direction changes to management.
• Requires the ability to interact across multiple organizational levels and assume a lead role and set direction for large or complex projects.
Nice to have:
• Past experience in building and maintaining Critical National Infrastructure
• Past experience working in Payments Space
• Experience in CI/CD
• Involved and spearheaded new team creation.
• Experience in FX, SWIFT or ACH systems, especially acquired within a bank is a major plus
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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.




Top Skills

Java

Mastercard Pune, Maharashtra, IND Office

Poona Club Road, Pune, Maharashtra, India, 411001

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