Director, Software Engineering

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
Director, Software Engineering
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
Mastercard is looking for a talented Software Engineering Director to join the Mastercard Foundry R&D Team focused on Quantum, AI & ML initiatives located in our European Tech-hub in Leopardstown, Dublin. In this role you will be a leading a highly agile team building exiting and innovative products, proving the art of whats possible and delivered at scale to our global markets.
Our team is built on a foundation of applied research and development, mining innovation internally, innovating new product lines with emerging technology, managing new products from inception to market validation and engaging strategically with startups to shape the future of commerce with and for our customers. At Mastercard you will help define the future of commerce globally.
This team will have a diverse focus both in terms of geography and variety of technology challenges driving hard to bring innovative payment solutions to market.
Role
* Manage a team of highly skilled engineers and deliver software development projects using agile methodologies and AI assisted processes
* Define requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices
* Marry solutions that encompass Quantum and AI/ML and software engineering aspects
* Research, design and document solutions that can scale globally
* Responsible for driving the team, project management, reporting and execution of software projects
* Lead and/or take part in external and internal events
* Strong passion for innovation and new technologies, e.g. AI, Quantum
Responsibilities
* Formally supervise and coach a group/team, or several Leaders/ Consultants and is responsible for business execution of goals and objectives.
* Ensure own teams compliance to goal setting and performance appraisal process
* Help identify and coach top talent within own team
* Provide strategic leadership related to specific applications and systems, or software-development methodologies
* Create and sustain an environment of ingenuity and creativity and challenges the status quo to encourage innovation
* Oversees the management of the Software Engineering function of assigned projects and act as an authority on high-level and complex decisions within the function
* Work with data scientists, data engineers, software engineers, quality engineers and UI/UX experts to drive a multi-disciplinary project delivery
About You
Skills / Abilities
* Experience in software engineering and delivery of software engineering projects
* Experience working with experts in Quantum, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning or data science an advantage
* Experience in python and Jupyter, and putting those technologies into production
* Experience with developing and deploying technologies in virtual environments (including Kubernetes)
* Experience in using state of the art AI harnesses and AI assisted software development
Education
* BSc (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related discipline
* 10+ years of industry experience
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.