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

Director, Software Engineering
Overview:
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a world leading payments and technology company with the aspiration to help reshape the digital economy so everyone can realize their ambitions. Technology is our product, and we pride ourselves in using the latest technologies to create secure, customer centric experiences.
We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Job Title:
Director, Software Engineering

Role:
We are looking for a Director – Software Engineering in Transaction Fraud Decisioning Program, to successfully lead major projects and complex assignments with broad scope and long-term business implications. Create solutions with high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, high quality and faster time to market. Lead day-to-day applications development and maintenance activities to meet service level agreements (SLAs).
All about you:
• Hands-on technical leader – Java/Spring Boot with experience in managing applications and resources
• Lead an engineering team that will build, operate, and maintain software to meet business needs
• Experienced in managing and mentoring other people’s managers (Manager of people’s manager)
• Obsessed with results, and effectively communicate the objectives and how success will be measured to the team members.
• Collaborate with other teams (ex. product management, customer service, production operations) to achieve business goals.
• Develop and drive metrics for team delivery through in-house and vendor (SaaS) based tools.
• Innovate for our Customers - take a long-term perspective to build systems and features.
• Interface with a diverse customer base to understand requirements, priorities, and processes
• Help define long-term development and business technology strategies
• Own collection and reporting of platform metrics
• Hire, mentor, and retain a best-of-class engineering team and foster strong team culture
• Perform Quality Inspections and Walkthroughs, Architecture Review, Design Review, Code Review and Security Review to ensure compliance with MasterCard standards.
Qualifications:
• Hands-on experience in Java, REST APIs , Spring boot and related technologies.
• Advanced knowledge of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies
• Detail-oriented, proactive and able to function under pressure in an independent environment along with a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results.
• Strong communication skills - both verbal and written – and strong relationship, collaboration 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.