Manager, 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

Manager, Software Engineering

Overview
Mastercard® Global Data Repository—a leading technology repository that houses enhanced information (daily transactions from MasterCard issuers plus data from vendors such as airlines and hotels). GDR powers multiple Mastercard commercial products and provides enriched data to Mastercard smartdata.gen2, a scalable, global, web-based solution of payment data and information management.

Global Data Repository (GDR), maintains data in a highly secure environment behind multiple firewalls, it collects detailed data from many different sources and aggregates it into a single common format for distribution to various entities. It distributes data globally on a daily basis to issuers and their customers via Smart Data solutions, or directly to those customers using their own MIS or ERP system.
• The Applications Development Team is a dedicated collection of self-organizing, interdependent, and highly efficient co-located individuals. There are multiple teams as part of GDR, spread over (Pune) India and (St. Louis) USA.
• Team members may be developers, testers, analysts, architects, project managers and product owners. The team is cross-functional, and follows the agile methods to deliver the work
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, Architects, 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.
• 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.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Software Architecture and Design Principles, Patterns, Methodology, Domain Concepts (Architecture and Design Skills)
• You are not someone who is bound to technology and understand that technology is a means to solve a business problem. You can comfortably manage application and team that utilise multiple technologies (like Java, Springboot, C\C++, shellscripting, pearl, SQL/Oracle, Kafka etc)
• 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 systems.
• 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).
• 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.