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

The Security Threat and Response Management (STRM) Engineering program is a 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.

All About You:
• 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.

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal 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. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or du