Senior Software Engineer - Switch Technology (Connex/BASE24)

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

Senior Software Engineer - Switch Technology (Connex/BASE24)

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
The Mastercard Network Exchange provides a single payment connection that supports Mastercard and non-Mastercard branded financial transactions. It is a streamlined interface that enables transaction originators and receivers (e.g., merchants, financial institutions, and processors) to connect to other players in the payment ecosystem. Our team of integrators, analysts, testers and subject matter experts work together to build four platforms that encompasses full lifecycle of payment processing. We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to design, develop and deliver highly complex customers, platforms focused projects, initiatives. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.
Role
• Responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions
• Defines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices
• Manage small to medium-sized project/initiatives as an individual contributor with advanced knowledge within discipline, leading a segment of several initiatives or a larger initiative
• Deep understanding of the design approaches and technologies utilized in your area
• Focus on the customer experience, the build and delivery processes and the problems to be solved
• Designs and develops applications, system to system interfaces and complete software solutions, performs vendor-related activities, and creates documentation such as user guides and software development guides
• Oversees and provides technical support to junior team members
• Significant advanced code development, code review and modest day-to-day support duties
• Work across multiple scrum teams (may be cross-cutting across products, scrum teams, and/or technologies or work may be vertically focused on a single product or feature set)
• Department-wide public speaking and other communications conveying application level directions
• Partner with vendors that provide technology or user experience design components that support our architecture and work with vendors on our implementation plans and roadmaps identifying partnership opportunities to increase our development velocity and our learnings
All About You
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of experience and formal education required
• Overall 6-9 years of career experience in Development
• Strong Experience on Connex/BASE24 on HP Non Stop or IST Switch
• Strong knowledge in Connex components like PI, PMC, CED and exposure to other Connex utilities like Statmon
• Strong knowledge in TAL/pTAL, TACL, Enscribe, Non-stop SQL, FUP, Pathway
• Strong exposure to Messaging systems and ISO8583 messaging formats
• Good to have knowledge on simulators Fastest/Webfastest, VTS, MDS
Knowledge of Mastercard, Cards payments industry preferred.
• Advanced knowledge and experience with software developmet engineering principals including waterfall and agile methodologies is required
• Be a strong, confident, and exacting writer and speaker, able to communicate project goal, and roadmap effectively to a wide variety of stakeholders
• Organizational and planning and multi-tasking skills while adaptive to Change
• Leadership, interpersonal, and negotiation skills required with a track record for developing internal and external relationships

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.