Director, Software Engineering

at  MasterCard

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
Director, Software Engineering

JOB SPECIFIC EXPERIENCES

IT experience with successful track record in managing medium scale development organization (5+ teams) with demonstrated thought-leadership, cross-functional influence, and partnership
Progressively grown career with proven design and development experiences in multiple languages, secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT), and vulnerability management.
Understands internals of operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mainframe) to deliver interoperable and performant code.
Has skills to develop and evangelize on reference architecture and run principles to help teams adopt Engineering Principles from the start (poison pill, active/active/active, auto-scaling, self-healing, others)
Understands use cases for advanced design patterns (e.g., service-to-worker, MVC, API gateway, intercepting filter, dependency injection, lazy loading, all from gang of four) to implement efficient code
Understands and implements Application Programming Interface (API) standards and cataloging to drive API/service adoption and commercialization
Has skills to promote and coach teams on take on full stack development and facilitate end-to-end service ownership
Has skills to engage engineers across Technology organization to promote standard software patterns and reuse of common libraries and services
Has experience in leading and coaching teams to perform software planning and estimation for large scale complex programs
Has skills to drive trade-off discussions to set right development capacity based on value drivers (e.g., regulatory, security, new business, market parity, technical debt)
Has experience in design and execution of automation across multiple business areas and provides guidance on best methods and tools.
Has an expert understanding of DevOps best practices to guide developers and abstract application development from underlying hosting platforms and infrastructure
Performance engineering experience to ensure applications are built to scale, run, and perform for varying demands
Has skills to evaluate practices, metrics, and roles to continually optimize SDLC methodologies and automate processes to improve lead time and quality
Has skills to perform architecture and cost analysis for internal, hybrid, and public cloud environments
Has skills to succinctly articulate architecture patterns of complex systems, with business and technical implications, to executive and customer stakeholders
Has skills to define and drive advanced chaos and other operational testing practices to test points of failures, monitors, and system behaviors under adverse conditions (e.g., resource spikes, network congestion, component or infrastructure failure)
Has skills to implement advanced test set ups in production environment (e.g., A/B testing, canary releases, blue-green deployment, feature flags)

BROADENING EXPERIENCES

Has experience leading and delivering global projects across multiple locations and functions
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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Formally supervise and coach 5+ teams of engineers to build, enhance, and support multiple applications/services in the delivery of internal or market-facing Products, Platforms, or Product bundles
Oversee the management of the Software Engineering group and acts as the highest authority on high-level and complex decisions within the function
Work with business/product owners to develop and deliver on new services to introduce new products and bundles
Work on complex enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple services/programs and drives resolution
Ensure objectives and development plans are established at the start of the year and reviewed continuously throughout the year
Recruit and hire the right talent, always bringing in someone better than at least half the individuals in the role
Continuously engage and improve teams’ performance by conducting recurring 1-1 meetings, knowing your people, managing career development, and understanding who is at risk
Provide and facilitate timely feedback, coaching in the moment, and mentoring for staff at all levels
Emulate and drive Mastercard Way behaviors through their behavior, recognitions, coaching, and employee engagement
Manage and optimize budgets, forecasting, and cost allocation while delivering on business needs in the area of ownership
Provides strategic thinking and leadership related to a wide range of applications and systems, or software-development methodologies
Benchmark and drive engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance in the areas of ownership

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