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.
Overview:
Mastercard is looking for a talented Software Engineer Director to join the Mastercard Applied Artificial Intelligence team in Dublin (Ireland). This role will be focused in enabling AI and Automation solutions within Mastercard Products and Processes. In this role you will be part of a highly agile team building exciting and innovative solutions delivered at scale to global markets.
The Role:
Technology leader who is hands-on & and can lead a team of engineers. Expected to spend a significant % of time coding/on code related activities and remainder on coaching engineers on the team. This person is recognized as a team’s authority and technical expert who drives innovation and organizational growth through their contributions.
Define, Design & Code Software solutions:
• Collaborate with product teams to understand the requirements, identify solution, propose ideas and provide technical thought leadership.
• Drive the architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies
• Document the overall systems/application architecture, help create high-level and low-level designs and shepherd through security and architecture governance reviews
Team Lead:
• Act as the lead in bringing multiple engineers and/or teams together to achieve the overall objective of the proposed solution
• Drive resolution on complex technical issues
• Participate and contribute to team’s agile process and decisions. Understand and contribute to Prioritization. Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners
• Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar
• Conduct mid and end of year performance reviews for team
Thought Leadership/Mentoring:
• Build relationships with technical peers across organization with a focus on our Enterprise Architecture (EA) collaboration; socializing new technologies with EA and bringing EA technology and updates back to the group.
• Contribute and lead SE Guild initiatives by engaging and mentoring Engineers at all levels to improve the craftmanship of Software Engineering
• Drive adherence to Mastercard’s corporate coding standards
Skills/Experience
• Experience in building highly resilient & scalable distributed systems. Has deep exposure to various database, messaging & caching technologies.
• Progressively grown career with proven design and development experiences in multiple languages (e.g., Java, .NET, JavaScript, SQL), secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT), and vulnerability management.
• Experience in Java/J2EE technologies with Spring boot and Spring batch framework, REST APIs, JSON, NoSQL/SQL data bases, Hibernate, Messaging, front end technologies CSS, HTML, Angular.js, Node.js, React.js or similar framework, Web & Application Server
• Hands on experience of various coding methods and computer languages, Data modelling and database design experience, MicroServices Architecture
• In depth knowledge of Cloud provider (PCF, AWS, Azure), Container and Container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes). Proficient working in cloud with AWS preferred
• Sound knowledge of cryptography functions incl PKI infrastructure, hashing, encryption, consensus algorithms, virtual machines
• Has an understanding and experience of DevOps best practices to guide developers and abstract application development from underlying hosting platforms and infrastructure. Infrastructure as code and cloud first software development knowledge experience preferred.
• Experience in Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization. Tools such as Jenkins, Gradle, Maven, Source Control Management and working with code in a multi-developer that’s integrated with secure code coverage & static code coverage tools (SonarCube Prisma etc)
• Expertise in Junit or other automated unit testing frameworks e.g. Karate
• 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.
• Performance engineering experience to ensure applications are built to scale, run, and perform for varying demands
• Has skills to succinctly articulate architecture patterns of complex systems, with business and technical implications, to executive and customer stakeholders
All About You
• Loves creating innovative solutions to problems in a collaborative fun environment
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of modern software engineering concepts and methodologies
• Passionate about software development and comfortable in a fluid environment
• Passionate about code quality and coding best practices
• Show initiative and demonstrate a willingness to take on challenging opportunities
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and strong collaboration skills
• Interested in mentoring and helping grow the skills of the next generation of software developers

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.