Company

MasterCard

Description

Our Purpose

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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Job Title

Director, Software Engineering

STRM program dedicated collection of self-organizing, high performing, interdependent, co-located individuals representing different functional roles with all the necessary skills to create the foundational capabilities that application teams develop on top of it. This team leads with mission to provide overall stewardship of enterprise grade application architecture & design within the context of holistic software development. This includes driving the architecture & design decisions and building consensus around it. The team leads the exploration in software architecture & technology innovations along with enabling excellence in overall team.

We are building a team of talented engineers to work on new and exciting products. The team is cross-functional, which means that between all its members they possess sufficient skills to do the work. There is no dictated leadership hierarchy within the team members.
Director of Software Engineering at MasterCard is a high performing people leader within the organization and spearheads the architecture or framework implementations. He or she participates in the Software Development Life Cycle through Coaching, R&D, Proof of Concepts, Prototyping, Code review etc. Additionally, he or she influences the development practices so that they are in compliance with best practices, policies and procedures.
Do you have what it takes to be an impactful engineer for a Scrum team?

Role

Work on complex enterprise-wide Corporate Security initiatives spanning multiple services/programs and drive resolution
Drive the architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies
Take ownership to improve the customer experience of an entire set of services/applications sold as products or bundled services
Apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests
Consult across teams and across organization lines to identify synergies and reuse opportunities
Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar
Identify and raise awareness of Silo-ed behaviors within the organization and teams
Mentor and guide software engineers to improve engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance
Design and implement a scalable, resilient and highly performant set of security services in Identity and access management space
Provide guidance to teams on development standards, automation and tools.
Identify performance bottlenecks and come up with novel ways to solve them.

Must have

Ability to perform Proof of Concepts, ability to quickly code, script and deploy.
BS in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
Experience in working with fast paced, modern architecture using Java, JavaScript, Spring boot, Redis or similar technologies.
Solid understanding of security fundamentals in identity and access space.
Proficiency in Software Development Best Practices (TDD/BDD, Unit test, Continuous Delivery, …)
Very good analytical and problem solving skills.
Desire to stay abreast of new development technologies and tools.
Very good inter-personal skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment.
Strong communication skills, with an ability to express design ideas to a development team.

Nice to have

Working experience in a security space dealing with Identity management or vulnerability management.
Working experience in a continuous integration development environment, preferably Jenkins.
Good understanding of private or public cloud eco systems.
Experience in secure software development.

In the US, Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

Corporate Security Responsibility

Responsibilities

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.

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