Manager, Software Engineering

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

Manager, Software Engineering

Overview
The Transaction Management & Controls team is looking for a Manager, Software Engineering to help achieve time-to-market, quality excellence, and higher customer satisfaction. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset. A Manager position at MasterCard requires hybrid skills that involves knowledge of software development & quality engineering to develop a resilient software product that is testable in close to fully automated manner. Additionally, role requires experience of managing 10 or more-member scrum team that works on software development using Agile methodology. Also, understanding of design patterns, technology is necessary for this role to ensure Engineering Excellence is achieved by the team all the time.
Role
You will be responsible for managing a team that does programming, testing, implementation, documentation, maintenance, and support of systems application software in adherence with MasterCard standards, processes, and best practices. Responsibilities include the following:
• Manage a team of talented engineers to develop high-performance, high-volume Java applications.
• Work closely with technical leads, architects, and product owners to help define/prioritize features and user stories.
• Provides direction to the team that develops high quality, secure, scalable software solutions based on technical requirements specifications and design artifacts within expected time and budget.
• Help in evaluating technical solution alternatives for the business needs current and future.
• Work with project team to meet scheduled due dates, while identifying emerging issues and recommending solutions.
• Ensure team follows MasterCard Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes.
• Contribute ideas to help ensure that required standards and processes are in place and actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency.
• Support collection and reporting of project and software metrics
All about You
• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering
• 10-13 years of experience of working on Scalable, Multi-threaded software products developed using core Angular, Java, Spring Core, Spring Boot, Spring Batch Hibernate/JPA, Maven/Gradle, PL/SQL, Unix/Shell scrips and deployed on Tomcat/PCF.
• Experience of managing one or more scrum teams of software engineers to provide technical direction to the team and resolve blockers faced the development team
• Good to have hands-on experience of working on both SOAP & RESTFUL APIs
• Knowledge of Cloud Native Development such as Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) & AWS
• Good to have hands-on knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins
• Good to have working knowledge on Test Automation Frameworks & related tools such as Selenium, Rest-assured, TestNG, Postman
• Good understanding of Java/microservices design patterns is expected.
• Knowledge of common industry standard best programming practices.
• Ability to innovate and develop new approaches to complex design problems.
• Experience working in a dynamic and collaborative work environment and make independent decisions.
• Ability to learn and deploy new technologies as needed.
• Experience in building scalable, maintainable applications.
• Excellent verbal and written communication along with the Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines.
• Experience using the Agile Methodology and working with cross functional teams.
• Proven experience building world class solutions on a global scale.
• Experience working in an agile environment and actively contributing to discussions at retrospectives/elaboration sessions.

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.