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

Director, Software Engineering
Overview:
Who is Mastercard
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview:
The Transfer Solutions group is responsible for designing, building, and operating the technology that powers Mastercard’s next-generation payment applications—domestic, Cross–Border, and Bill Payments.
We are looking for a Director, Software Engineering, to join the Dublin team, focused on building and running our Cross-Border payments platform. We build software that can be deployed on-premise or in public cloud. In this role, you will lead a team focused on building innovative products delivered at scale to global markets.
The Role:
• Lead a team of software engineers, with a strong focus on engineering principles that support security, scale and operability.
• Focus on delivering against program OKRs.
• Nurture and develop talent at all levels in the team.
• Creates a high-trust environment that encourages innovation and thoughtful risk taking.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with technology and product partners.
• Contribute to the Mastercard Move technology roadmap.
• Responsible for business case development and scenario planning leading to an effective decision-making process for new initiatives
All About You
• Expert understanding of software engineering concepts and methodologies.
• Experience working on large-scale enterprise initiatives.
• Demonstrable experience in building highly resilient & scalable distributed systems, with experience in database, messaging & caching technologies.
• Progressively grown career with proven design and development experiences in multiple languages (primarily Java), secure coding standards, and vulnerability management.
• High-energy, detail-oriented, proactive, and able to handle multiple high-priority demands while driving consistent results.
• Demonstrable experience of driving outcomes autonomously.
• Payment domain experience preferred.
• Experience deploying and running scaled platforms in public cloud (AWS/Azure) preferred.

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.