Director of Software Engineering
Mastercard · Posted Oct 6
Global technology company connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, and businesses through secure payment processing and digital commerce solutions
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About the role
Mastercard powers economies and enables secure, simple and accessible digital payments choices across 200+ countries. This position sits within a fast-paced environment developing payment authentication and security solutions, providing technical leadership and expertise across the development lifecycle for an ecommerce payment authentication platform in the EMVCO 3DS payments domain. The Director provides leadership to large, diverse technology centers supporting Mastercard business partners' processing needs and internal and external customer requirements, with financial, organizational and policy responsibilities included.
What you will do
- Provide leadership and strategic direction to multiple teams and/or functional areas.
- Ensure approved staffing levels are maintained, departmental and staff education, training and cross training needs are met.
- Ensure that staff has skills and behaviors to perform tasks fully through effective communication of goals, objectives, performance and, as necessary, improvement plans.
- Review, approve and ensure the implementation of new or revised operational processes and procedures.
- Provide appropriate resources and budget to deliver timely, effective, efficient and predictable processing services and continuing improvement of performance.
- Respond to operational and business concerns or issues relative to future business programs, projects, or enhancements to ensure consistent delivery of quality services.
- Lead teams to deliver high quality, secure, scalable software solutions based on technical requirements specifications and design artifacts within expected time and budget.
- Research, create and evaluate technical solution alternatives for the business needs.
- 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.
- Actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency.
- Mentor and ramp-up junior team members.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s Degree in related functional area or equivalent work experience. Advanced degree highly desirable.
- Experience managing multiple functional areas especially in the EMVCO 3DS Payments domain.
- Experience developing and managing departmental budgets covering multiple discipline areas.
- Formal business or management training including Project Management, Financial Management and Strategic Planning.
- 5+ years of experience in related EMVCO 3DS Payments field, with progressively increasing responsibility.
- Understanding of and extensive experience with Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies.
- Proven ability to lead large complex projects and the ability to work effectively with all areas within Global Technology Operations, Corporate Groups and outside solution providers.
- Proven verbal and written communications skills are a requirement for this role and experience with the following deliverables is critical: requirements documents, design documents, and project financial analysis.
- Ability to acquire and retain top talent.
- Management skills necessary to provide functional and directional guidance to direct and indirect staff. Ability to set direction and assure appropriate business outcomes of large or complex projects.
- Ability to approve and implement policy and provide strategic direction for the organization.
- Excellent Communication skills required to interact across multiple organizational levels of internal and external customer groups.
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent education.
- Excellent understanding and knowledge of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies is required.
- Exposure to Agile is mandatory. SAFE Agile experience is desirable.
- 15+ years of experience in the software engineering field including Technical Leadership experience.
- Experience in Java, Junits, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate and web services. Working exposure to unix systems in beneficial.
- Understanding of design patterns
- Experience and knowledge of SQL, PL SQL and Oracle is preferred.
- Experience and knowledge of rest services is preferred.
- Working knowledge of cloud-based application development like PCF or Azure or any cloud platform is required.
- Working knowledge of micro services development is preferred.
- 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.
- Knowledge of payment domain esp. card payments domain is preferred.
- Application security, Circuit breaker, Rest API standards
- Knowledge of encryption, ssl and mutual ssl, signing, reactive programming, blue green deployment, resiliency, end to end tracing, wiremock spring cache, end to end tracing, open api specifications, crypto operations, load balance, secret vault, spring actuator, performance, sonar code, cloud.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Mastercard
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry that connects consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments, and businesses worldwide. It operates a fast and secure payment processing network that spans more than 200 countries and territories. Through innovative products and solutions in credit, debit, digital assets, and security, Mastercard makes commerce safer, simpler, and more accessible.
- Industry
- Payments
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 1966
- Location
- Purchase, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $115M raised
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Business Officer
President & Chief Technology Officer
Chief People Officer
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