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

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 Identity Solutions team is looking for a Director, Software Engineering to drive our Identity verification and authentication strategy in payments forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the payment space in general and identity authentication space in particular, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset as we delve into building new solutions and make a positive impact on how users make payments while ensuring high security and convenience.
Role
In this Engineering Director position, you will:
· Partner with various stakeholders like Product, Technical and Business operation teams and other teams across Mastercard to understand the product requirements, lead the design and architecture, build and deliver solutions.
· Responsible for development and support of systems application software in adherence with MasterCard standards, processes and best practices.
· Develop high quality, secure, scalable software solutions based on product roadmap within expected time and budget.
· Research, create and evaluate technical solution alternatives for the business needs.
· Create systems and testing documentation per department standards.
· Follow standards in development and testing to ensure compliance with Audit Requirements.
· Follow MasterCard Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes.
· Support collection and reporting of project and software metrics.
· Ensuring team is motivated and enable career path of the employees reporting into this role.
· Mentor and coach team members and help in establishing and growing a team
· Manage other Managers and Leads towards business objectives.


All About You
· Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent education.
· Excellent understanding and knowledge of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies and Agile / SAFE Agile is required.
· Expertise in building software applications and leading teams.
· Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive, and able to function under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
· Strong communication skills -- both verbal and written – and able to quickly learn and implement new technologies, application appropriate frameworks and tools.
· Strong relationship, collaborative skills and organizational skills with a high degree of initiative and self-motivation and Able to work as a member of matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team.
· Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities.
· Actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency.
· Excellent troubleshooting skills and be able to proactively work to prevent a problem.
· Competent with building high performing and secure applications with excellent knowledge of architecture, design, performance and security principles.
· Have good knowledge and expertise of building java based systems and services using latest cloud technologies and micro services based architecture.
· Knowledgeable in Enterprise Level Application Frameworks and Tools.
· Knowledge and expertise in payments domain is desirable.
· Is passionate about building innovative solutions to make a positive impact on how people make payments globally.
· Is technology and data savvy and understands how data can enable convenience in payments and at the same time prevent frauds.
· Have a clear mission that focuses on the business objectives and rally the team towards a common goal.
· Skilled in planning and execution and setting right expectations and be a great partner to work with all stakeholders across Mastercard.
· In a problem solver with attitude of getting things done.
· Be a strong, confident, and exacting writer and speaker, able to communicate your vision and roadmap effectively to a wide variety of stakeholders
Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

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.