Director of Software Engineering

Overview

Director of Software Engineering providing technical leadership and expertise within the development lifecycle for an ecommerce payment authentication platform. The role leads large, diverse technology centers supporting Mastercard Business Partners' processing needs and internal and external customer requirements.

What you'll do

• Provide leadership and strategic direction to multiple teams and/or functional areas.
• Ensure approved staffing levels are maintained and departmental and staff education, training and cross training needs are met.
• Ensure that staff has the 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 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.
• Acquire and retain top talent.
• Set direction and assure appropriate business outcomes of large or complex projects.
• Approve and implement policy and provide strategic direction for the organization.
• Interact across multiple organizational levels of internal and external customer groups.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent education.
• Bachelor’s Degree in a related functional area or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a related EMVCO 3DS Payments field, with progressively increasing responsibility.
• 15+ years of experience in the software engineering field including Technical Leadership experience.
• 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.
• Excellent understanding and knowledge of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies.
• Proven ability to lead large complex projects and work effectively with all areas within Global Technology Operations, Corporate Groups and outside solution providers.
• Proven verbal and written communication skills, including experience with requirements documents, design documents, and project financial analysis.
• Management skills necessary to provide functional and directional guidance to direct and indirect staff.
• Excellent communication skills required to interact across multiple organizational levels of internal and external customer groups.
• Exposure to Agile is mandatory.
• Experience in Java, JUnits, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate and web services.
• Working knowledge of cloud-based application development like PCF or Azure or any cloud platform.
• Understanding of design patterns.
• 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 and organizational skills with a high degree of initiative and self-motivation, and able to work as a member of a matrix-based diverse and geographically distributed project team.
• Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities.
• 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, OpenAPI specifications, crypto operations, load balance, Secret Vault, Spring Actuator, performance, Sonar code and cloud.
• 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.
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree.
• SAFE Agile experience.
• Experience and knowledge of SQL, PL SQL and Oracle.
• Experience and knowledge of REST services.
• Working exposure to Unix systems.
• Working knowledge of microservices development.
• Knowledge of the payment domain, especially the card payments domain.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.