Lead Software Engineer

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

Lead Software Engineer

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
This position is a key member of a team of business technologists responsible for the design and development of products and solutions that further MasterCard’s goals in digital commerce. This role will work with business partners from across the globe to design digital products and the detailed product and technical road-maps required to support global deployments of eCommerce and Mobile Commerce products. Additionally, this role will lead the transition from a product road-map into detailed release plans and the transition of the plans to technical delivery teams. The position requires extensive experience and demonstrated thought leadership in the development and delivery of products eCommerce and Mobile Commerce.
The Role
Working with Business Partners, design our technology products and applications to meet MasterCard’s business objectives.
• Develop and own the technology road-map for our eCommerce and Mobile Commerce products
• Coordinate the technical road-mapping process ensuring alignment with business objectives, enterprise architecture plans, and technology delivery
• Ensure business requirements are of sufficient quality and detail to ensure the road-map can be transitioned to development release plans.
• Provide thought leadership in eCommerce and Mobile Commerce, an advisor to our business partners.
• Ensure communications are timely and transparent between business teams and technology teams, across the globe.
• Single point of contact for new software development request, requests for product evaluation, sizing of new requirements, etc.
All About You
• Must have extensive experience in designing and developing consumer facing eCommerce and Mobile Commerce products and solutions.
• Effectively deal with difficult situations. Help develop solutions to complex problems.
• Ability to translate highly complex technical matters into easily digestible and actionable plans.
• Requires the ability to influence business and technology partners and individual contributors.
• Must have the ability to foster open communications across various organizational levels.
• Requires skills to motivate teams 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.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, relationship-building and negotiation skills required with a solid track record for developing internal and external relationships.
• Provide measurable input into new products, processes, standards or plans in support of the business.

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.