Lead Software Engineer - .NET (Primary) + Java (Secondary)

Our Purpose

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.

Title and Summary

Lead Software Engineer - .NET (Primary) + Java (Secondary)

Overview
In addition to our traditional payments portfolio, Mastercard is aggressively expanding into new payment flow and leveraging the digital and connected world of people and economies to deliver faster, reliable and more efficient propositions to make payments – send or receive money.
The Cross Border program is part of the wider Disbursement & Remittances business that we are looking to expand at a compounded rate of 50% per year for the next 5 years. We are building solutions to enable payments in an any-to-any format – anyone, anywhere can send or receive money using any channel – money exchanges, banks, digital wallets, cards or fintech apps – providing a seamless and unified experience for both individuals and business to move money.
We are looking for a passionate, innovative and experienced engineer with a proven track record in leading the evolution of software products and their implementation in various markets – comfortable both working hands-on as well as guiding and mentoring a team of engineers and critically always challenging the status quo and pushing and driving the technology roadmap to ensure that the solutions leverage technology to the maximum extent.
As the Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for setting the pace of the technology transformation and cloud adoption of the platform in support of the business and market growth.
Role
Lead the cloud-native transformation of the .Net platform and provide devops and cloud architecture design and engineering expertise.
Lead the Security and Operational resilience dimensions across the platform and drive an improvement in the non-functional posture of the platform
Expertise
* Expertise in both .Net and Java
* Expertise in Cloud native architectures and hands-on experience in designing and implementing cloud-native architectures
* Sound understanding of 12-factor principles, microservices architecture and event-driven architecture
* Experience in Apache Kafka is desirable
* Sound understanding and experience in implementing security models in API-based solutions - with experience in different AuthN/AuthZ and Encryption models
* Sound command over UML, Design patterns and architecture frameworks - knowledge of TOGAF is a plus
* Experience building enterprise-grade secure & scalable systems including an understanding of performance engineering principles.
* Experience in atleast 1 brown-field migration initiative moving platforms from on-prem legacy architectures to public cloud hosted cloud-native architecture
* Sound understanding of domain-driven architecture and engineering constructs.
* Strong written and verbal communications skills - with an ability & experience in creating, publishing and socializing architecture and design documents

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.