Manager 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
Manager Software Engineering
Overview:
The Platform Services group is responsible for designing, building, and operating the technology that powers Mastercard's market-facing and core technology platforms. This includes foundational services such as the API Gateway, Event Gateway, and File Transfer Services. We are seeking a Manager Software Engineering to join our Dublin team, focusing on building and operating our Global File Transfer platform. This platform supports secure, seamless data transfers across Mastercard's global infrastructure-including Mastercard's next-generation switch. This is an exciting senior engineering role within a globally distributed team, passionate about delivering resilient, scalable solutions to our customers.
The Role:
As a Manager, Software Engineering, you will:
Lead strategic technical direction for applications, architectures, and development processes. Lead and push the boundaries of analytics and powerful, scalable applications Act as a key contributor to product implementation while empowering your team Lead with an agile mindset, adapting to changes quickly and guiding your team to pivot when needed. Coach, mentor, and develop a cross-functional engineering team to deliver high-quality solutions and well-tested code Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning. Collaborate across teams and business units to solve complex technical problems and ensure alignment. Partner with Product Managers and Customer Experience Designers to define roadmaps, scope features, and plan releases. Ensure projects meet customer demands while scaling platform solutions for future growth.
All About You: • 10+ years of engineering experience in an agile production environment. • Experience leading the design and implementation of complex features in full-stack applications. • Proficiency with object-oriented languages, preferably Java/ Spring, alternatively C# Fluent in the use of Git, Jenkins. • Solid experience with RESTful APIs and JSON/SOAP based API. • Solid experience with SQL, Multi-threading, Event Driven Applications• Experience in building and deploying production-level data-driven applications and data processing. workflows/pipelines and/or implementing machine learning systems at scale in Java, Scala, or Python and deliver analytics involving all phases. Data engineering or data science background with strong understanding of data pipelines, architecture, infrastructure, and management.• Hands on experience of cloud native development using microservices. Hands on experience on Kafka. • Knowledge of enterprise application security protocols and concepts. Expertise with automated E2E and unit testing frameworks. • Knowledge of Splunk or other alerting and monitoring solutions.• Strong technologist eager to learn new technologies and frameworks.• Experience coaching and mentoring junior teammates. • Customer-centric development approach • Ability to identify and implement improvements to team development processes• Strong collaboration skills with experience collaborating across many people, roles, and geographies • Superior academic record with a degree in Computer Science or related technical field • Strong written and verbal English communication skills
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.