Director, Software Engineering Job Listing at Mastercard in Pune, MH (Job ID R-228027)

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.

Title and Summary

Director, Software Engineering Job Overview
Position with extensive understanding and knowledge of software operations with solid knowledge of required services. Provides management direction and recommends strategic directions based on established policy. Leads and manages staff and assures staffing, training and objective setting. Recommends policy changes and implementations. Interacts with developers and requestors to identify scope of project.
Major Accountabilities
• Experience in end-to-end solution and product architecture.
• Formally supervises and coaches multiple software engineering teams of multiple roles and is responsible for planning and business execution of goals and objectives
• Provides strategic leadership related to specific applications and systems, or software-development methodologies
• Understanding of Java, Spring Framework and experience leading multiple teams.
• Ensure that staff has skills and behaviours to perform tasks fully through effective communication of goals, objectives, performance and as necessary improvement plans. •Ensure development, review and implementation of policy changes based on approved recommendations with minimal customer or staff interruption.
• Review and approve the development or revision of operational processes and procedures.
• Recommend annual cost centre budget and ensure appropriate expenditures within that approved budget.
• Recommend strategic direction and policy changes.
• Advance operational and business concerns or issues relative to future business programs, projects, or enhancements that may affect consistent delivery of quality services.

Education
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience.
Knowledge / Experience:
• 12+ years of proven experience in software engineering delivery leadership at enterprise scale
• In depth Experience development applications in Java, Spring Boot
• Experience preparing & delivering executive level presentations to business and technology audiences.
• Experience mentoring and developing resources in a high performance culture.

Skills/ Abilities:
• Ability to translate highly complex technical matters into easily digestible and actionable plans.
• In depth Experience development applications in Java, Spring Boot
• Requires the ability to lead and manage senior technical individual contributor and management staffs with the ability to foster open communications across various organizational levels. Requires skills to motivate direct and indirect reports to deliver superior results.
• Requires the skills to provide functional and directional guidance to staff and recommend policy or strategic direction changes to management.
• Requires the ability to interact across multiple organizational levels and assume a lead role and set direction for large or complex projects.
Nice to have:
• Past experience in building and maintaining Critical National Infrastructure
• Past experience working in Payments Space
• Experience in CI/CD
• Involved and spearheaded new team creation.
• Experience in FX, SWIFT or ACH systems, especially acquired within a bank is a major plus

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.

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