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's Builders Enablement Program has an exciting opportunity for a Manager of Software Engineering.
We are part of Mastercard’s Team ONE (Operations, Network and Employee Digital Experience) empowering 6000+ Engineers around the globe. We are responsible for creating a great developer experience enabling engineering teams to deliver innovative payment solutions for hundreds of millions of customers. Our services enable Mastercard engineering teams to focus on delivering business value from ideation to market. The ideal candidate will help Mastercard developers efficiently build, test, and deliver secure, quality code.

Role:
• Lead a team of talented engineers delivering multiple microservices.
• Interact with technical leaders, product, and operations partners to define strategic platform and product direction.
• Drive positive change within systems/process to optimally deliver on commitments
• Drive your team’s growth, capability and performance through coaching, mentoring, performance feedback and career development
• Track and communicate status/progress to customers and senior management

Skills:

• 3+ years experience as a people manager
• 7+ years prior experience in agile software development knowing OOP/OOAD and prior work with Java, REST microservices architecture and microservice deployments
• Expertise with Scrum and Kanban best practices
• You have experience in managing the development of distributed/scalable systems and high-volume transaction applications.
• You can drive architectural change, balancing technical and business priorities
• Experience working on products utilizing one or more Cloud platforms and familiar with cloud concepts
• Experience driving automated testing within CI pipelines
• Experience with service availability and observability using alerting and monitoring solutions
• Knowledgeable of containerization technologies
• Experience working in a regulated environment with secure software development practices (e.g., PCI DSS, GDPR)
• Experience managing shared components within the organization is a plus


All About You:

• You lead with transparency and have a strong desire to collaborate and provide mentorship to engineers
• You enjoy working with business and product leaders to inform and support options for delivering highly capable solutions that meet market demands
• You have excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical people and have experience preparing & delivering executive level presentations to business and technology audiences
• You are a champion of engineering and operational excellence: developing organizational metrics and driving culture of continuous improvement across teams
• You are a relentless self-starter who works quickly and efficiently to support product and technical objectives.
• You can navigate a complex global organization.


Education
• Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Electronics or an equivalent Engineering stream

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.