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
Job Description Summary
Are you somebody -
• Who is passionate in leading a technology team that is building a highly scalable and resilient product team?• Who loves to work on cutting edge technology and like to bring in new development deployment practices in project ?
• Who can mentor and lead by example to drive product life cycle from development to deployment ?
Overview
Mastercard Commercial Solutions - Smart Data GDR is looking for Technical Lead who will lead a software development team focused on our core services - someone who has deep technical experience and can help elevate our teams and our approach to engineering. We are building a culture that fosters innovation, built on a foundation of inclusion and diversity. We are looking for a candidate that has proven experience in coding, architecture leadership, and leading engineers in a fast-paced environment. This position requires hands-on-keyboard development, process engineering responsibilities with a strong emphasis on technical leadership.
You will be on the forefront of working on the Services/APIs that power our business as we build the next wave of technologies to drive our customer experience to the next level. If you are motivated, passionate, a quick learner and have effective communication skills, this role is waiting for you!
All About You
- The ideal candidate has an enthusiasm for finding elegant solutions to complex problems and identifying process improvements to increase efficiency.
- Experience in delivering secure, maintainable, scalable and complex application solutions in a SAFe/Agile process.
- Strong Java(JDK 17) development/architecture experience .
- Knowledge/experience using cloud native development such as PCF, etc.
- Experience with responsive design, working with JSON and RESTful APIs.
- Experience in Spring framework, SpringBoot , ORM framework like Hibernate, Gradle/Maven, Kafka, Database Design, SQL, PLSQL.
- Working Knowledge of tools like Sonar, Dynatrace, GIT, JIRA, CI (Jenkins)/CD, Splunk.
- Strong communication skills -- both verbal and written - and strong relationship, collaboration and organizational skills.
- Ability to quickly learn and implement new technologies, frameworks and tools and support multiple concurrent activities and to interface with external / internal resources.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities without compromising the processes.
- Result oriented, self-driven and go-getter abilities.
Responsibilities:
- Design secure, reliable, and scalable solutions for globally distributed payment systems
- Identify, plan and drive the enablers / Non Functional requirements for the systems
- Support development teams and work with stakeholders using the Scaled Agile Framework
- Create a culture of technical excellence and ceaseless improvement
- Act as a spokesperson for technical designs and future directions of the platform
- Research, create and evaluate technical solution alternatives for the business needs using current and upcoming technologies and frameworks
- Identify and resolve any dependencies early so that team can concentrate on delivery
- Ownership of documentation, ensure knowledge and information is not lost
- Identify areas of improvements, introduce and champion best practice (continuous improvement)
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent work experience
- Thorough knowledge and experience applying software engineering concepts and methodologies
- A high degree of initiative and self-motivation with a willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities
- Strong communication skills to effectively communicate complicated subjects to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Successfully led small to large-scale software testing across multiple technologies and groups
- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with great attention to detail, critical thinking.
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.