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
DirectorWho is Mastercard?
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.
Technology at Mastercard
What we create today will define tomorrow. Revolutionary technologies that reshape the digital economy to be more connected and inclusive than ever before. Safer, faster, more sustainable.
And we need the best people to do it. Technologists who are energized by the challenges of a truly global network. With the talent and vision to create the critical systems and products that power global commerce and connect people everywhere to the vital goods and services they need every day.
Working at Mastercard means being part of a unique culture. Inclusive and diverse, a rich collaboration of ideas and perspectives. A place that celebrates your strengths, values your experiences, and offers you the flexibility to shape a career across disciplines and continents. And the opportunity to work alongside experts and leaders at every level of the business, improving what exists, and inventing what’s next.
About the role
This position will be managing multiple Software Engineering teams that works with product owners, architecture, development and operations teams responsible for the continued development of the Mastercard Authentication Network platform. This includes managing all aspects of people resourcing, project deliverables, project schedules, project financials and vendor relationships. This role will include building relationships with cross-functional/technical teams within the organization to drive new development, process improvement and improve customer experiences.
All staff at Mastercard are expected to demonstrate 'Mastercard Way' cultural values every day - own it, simplify it, sense of urgency, thoughtful risk-taking, unlock potential, and be inclusive – with a relentless focus on our customers.
As part of an exciting, fast paced environment developing authentication and security solutions in the Authentication space, this position will provide Leadership within the development life cycle for new products and services.
All about you
Responsibilities
• Lead and manage Software Development scrum teams
• Manages and directs multiple teams of about 10 to 12 software developers, systems analysts and quality engineers
• Evaluates employee performance, sets expectations and goals for department and individual staff members, recruits, disciplines and trains staff
• Exercises independent judgment and discretion in overall project management by prioritizing, planning and tracking project progress
• Designs, develops and modifies program plans working closely with the business owners
• Research software development options and provides analysis for product development direction
• Consults with internal departments to identify customer needs and include into project objectives. Provides support regarding software development to internal departments.
• Creates related documentation
• Knowledge of the payment card industry
• Experience of the authentication and related technologies
• Interfacing and communicating with customers
• Must have good organizational and analytical skills and be able to interact with all levels of management
• Understanding of cloud eco system and have done hands on implementations on creating Internet facing applications for internal or external cloud
• Practical experience with reducing latency and response times for Internet facing applications (e.g., DNS, global routing, CDN)
• Experience with in-memory data structure store technologies
Core Competencies
• Leadership
• People Management
• Communication Proficiency
• Performance Management
• High end Problem Solving/Analysis
• Supervisory Responsibility
Experience/Education
• Software delivery experience required, card payments industry experience highly desirable
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of training and experience
• Experience managing multiple teams with on/offshore resourcing models
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal are a must
• Organizational planning and multi-tasking skills
• Listening, oral, written and presentation skills and effective interpersonal skills
• Ability to drive results while being resourceful and tactful within a corporate environment
• Extensive experience evaluating complex strategic initiatives, facilitating, influencing and contributing to design and advancement
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to build credibility; team oriented, collaborative, and flexible.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with an ability to identify key issues, structure analysis and synthesize data, and provide recommendations effectively
• Strong business acumen and ability to develop strategic points of view and facilitate discussion
Non-mandatory but nice to have skills
• Java/J2EE based Applications and Web Services development experience
• Knowledge of cloud-based architecture. AWS, Azure, etc.
• Sound technical knowledge of Software development lifecycle including Databases, and infrastructure components
• Security Coding Techniques and practices
• Release Management and code branching strategies
• Experience with best practices for Software Development
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.
