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
Senior Vice President Technology Connectivity Platform ServicesOverview:
Do you like to lead and contribute in the creation and execution of strategic initiatives?
Do you look forward to developing and engaging with high performant diverse teams around the globe?
Would you like to be part of a highly visible, strategically important global engineering organization?
The Role: What’s it all about and what we expect you to do day to day
Will report into the EVP for Customer Connectivity and will be responsible for leading, serving and enabling engineering teams who will help create, design, build, test and deploy applications at global scale.
Will provide senior hands on leadership to large, diverse, engineering teams who deliver change and development to the core platforms supporting multiple applications in the portfolio– i.e. File Transfer, Gateways, Cloud First.
Will be responsible to lead teams based globally who support all of Mastercard's Applications engineering capability – working within the Product & Engineering framework and setting direction, tone and strategy.
Will have overall responsibility for the engineering excellence of applications platform, supporting the overall governance approach and its implementation within the application delivery teams with target to delivery continuously.
Will manage departmental budget and tracking against finance reports.
Will understand, adhere and improve the company delivery methodology and industry standards where applicable. Will be a leader and positive role model for the Mastercard Way and Product and Engineering ethos
Will be a Technical leaders who is an exemplary practitioners of their craft and pragmatic visionaries. Will make a lasting impact that echoes through the technology, the services we deliver to our customers, and the company. Will work on Mastercard’s hardest problems, serving and enabling teams who are building high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our Engineering Principles and business needs.
Will remain hands-on 10% to 25% of time and lead by example and attracted teams across to come to them for engineering leadership, enablement and coaching.
Will be End-to-End technical leader who brings considerable experience designing and implementing digital payment solutions using a broad range of technologies.
Will provide strategic thinking and leadership related to a wide range of applications and systems, or software-development methodologies
Will build and lead multiple high performance, highly cohesive engineering teams
Will partner closely with product management to define the roadmaps, develop and deliver on new services to address market and customer needs.
Talent leadership: coach team members to their maximum potential by providing objective and actionable career guidance and opportunities; identify talent gaps; recruit and retain high quality technology talent
All About You and What you need to bring:
Leadership ability, even by doing as required, and strategic direction to multiple teams and/or functional areas. Ability to owns responsibility for a large strategic program.
Hands on coding expertise in Java or GO ecosystems to mostly write non-feature code that enabled compliance and architecture as code, leading us toward continuous delivery.
Ability to enable collaboration across scrum teams, products and departments by coding interfaces, Consumer driven contracts, tests and architecture fitness functions.
You are a top SME with in MA and a thought leader in industry.
Experience in managing approved staffing levels are maintained, departmental and staff education, training and cross training needs are met across 10 – 15 scrum teams.
Experienced in enabling teams to innovate at scale and drive revenue through product engineering excellence and capabilities like Continuous delivery and Cloud first.
Ensure that staff has skills and behaviours 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.
Demonstrated experience in creating of new products and more effective and efficient ways of working while responding to operational and business concerns or issues relative to future business programs, projects, or enhancements to ensure consistent delivery of quality services.
Technically Fearless – you tackle intrinsically hard problems, venturing beyond comfortable approaches when necessary, and are adept at “Thoughtful Risk Taking”. They acquire expertise as needed, pioneer new spaces, and inspire others as to what’s possible.
Balanced and Pragmatic - they are pragmatic problem solvers, and apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests. They simplify processes and technologies while advocating a long-term view.
Flexible in Approach - they adapt their approach to meet the needs of the team, project, and product. They solicit differing views and are willing to change their minds as they learn more. They recognize that there are often many viable solutions, and that sometimes the best solution is to solve a different problem, or to not solve the problem at all.
Respecting What Came Before - they are grateful to their predecessors and know that they stand on the shoulders of giants. They appreciate the value of working systems and the lessons they embody. They understand that many problems are not essentially new.
Leading with Decency - They value the cognitive diversity that comes from different educational, cultural, experiential backgrounds and know the best solutions rely on comfortable participation from all team members. They foster a comfortable environment for tough technical discussions where everyone can be heard. They de-escalate conflict when they see it and ensure that conversations are based on technical arguments. They mentor engineers and challenge them to engage in thoughtful disagreement.
Apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests.
Take on organization-wide and public speaking engagements and publishes white papers and blogs on relevant and emerging technical topics.
Consult across teams and across program lines to identify synergies and reuse opportunities.
Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar.
Mentor and guide software engineers and leads in the team to improve engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance.
Engage with external technical communities to extend our reach and benefit from the discovery outside of Mastercard and our industry.
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.
