Manager, Software Engineering (mastercard)

Job Description

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

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
The MDES team is looking for a Manager, Software Development Engineer who can lead and manage teams developing microservices based Enterprise applications using Java J2EE stack. Also, development of Portals which would be either used by customer care, end user, customer representatives etc. The ideal candidate is the one who is passionate about driving agile, technological & software engineering practices for a highly scalable, highly available enterprise grade payment application.

Role
Exhibit Team leadership, mentor and motivate all around growth, manage team member’s professional aspirations
Ensure that team is adhering to the industry best practices & company standards in terms of coding practices, process, tools & technologies
Ensure that team is delivering high quality work as per the customer needs by actively participating as necessary in scrum ceremonies (like Refining, planning, product demo, retrospective), pair programming & code review.
Assist Technical Program Managers in Project Planning, schedule, dependency management, risk identification and mitigation
Monitor the program metrics & work with the team to maintain and strive to exceed them
Work with Product Manager-Technical to ensure that the team have enough backlog
Conduct Performance assessment, participate and/or lead recruitment to ramp up a new or existing team, actively participate organization’s process & initiatives (especially people management)

All About You
Essential knowledge, skills & attributes
Strong experience of leading, people managing at least 2-3 scrum teams.
Good Knowledge and experience of SDLC processes (Waterfall, Scrum, Agile framework, principles)
Strong experience of managing a software product development involving highly scalable, highly available enterprise grade application. Preferably in Payments domain.
Good Knowledge and experience of using Project Management tools like MS Project, JIRA, Rally
Experience of developing application in Java, Java EE/Spring, RESTful web services, JBoss/WebLogic, Oracle/MySQL. Preferably, hands on experience of designing & developing microservice application & deploying them on any one of the public cloud like Google, AWS, Azure
Primary knowledge of Design Patterns & Security concepts (E.g. authentication, authorization, confidentiality etc.) and protocols their usage in enterprise application
Strong and effective Written & Verbal communication

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.