Director - 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 - Software Engineering

Overview
Must have a solid track record of being a 100% hands-on individual contributor.
We are seeking a highly experienced Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Mobile App Development for senior leadership role. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience working with both iOS and Android platforms, with a strong focus on hands-on development of an app and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in development and integration of mobile applications for both iOS and Android.
• Leverage expertise in Kotlin, Swift UI, Redux, Jetpack, and front-end technologies to deliver high-quality mobile solutions.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines, ensuring efficient deployment and integration processes.
• Contribute to DevOps practices to streamline operations and improve system reliability.
• Lead technical assessments and inceptions for project initiatives.
• Experience in retail banking or FinTech is highly preferred.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a hands-on approach to technical challenges.
Role
- Software requirements management.
- Project planning and control
- 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.
- 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 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.
All About You
- Ability to translate highly complex technical matters into easily digestible and actionable plans.
- Advanced knowledge of business or function.
- 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.
Education: Bachelor’s Degree in related functional area or equivalent work experience with exposure to management theories and concepts.
Qualifications:

* 20+ years of experience in software development and technical leadership with Java, Spring Boot, J2EE and mobile application development
* Great exposure to microservices architecture.
* Working knowledge Kafka/MQ JMS
* Expertise in Elastic Search, SQL, NoSQL databases, and Caching solutions.
* Hands on experience in application design & development must in above mentioned technology.
* Expertise in Test driven development.
* Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
* Passion for technology and self- starter
* Orientation towards Disciplined development processes
* Able to write SQL Queries and PL/SQL to Analyze data, Data Model


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.