Vice President, 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

Vice President, Software Engineering

Overview
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.
• 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.
• Vice President of Software Engineering at MasterCard is a high performing people leader within the organization and spearheads the architecture or framework implementations. Additionally, he or she influences the development practices so that they follow best practices, policies and procedures.
• Do you have what it takes to be an impactful leader to lead best teams?
• Vice President will design, develop and implement solutions that integrate with existing tooling and evaluate real time threat management, advance vulnerability management solutions from various vendors or roll out own engineering solutions. Vice President will also play an important role in contributing to future strategic roadmap of Security solutions and enhancements.
• This role will partner with the Corporate Security Product team to ensure solution designs are in alignment with Mastercard’s direction for securing and protecting Mastercard assets against internal and external threats.

Role
• Ability to demonstrate a broad awareness of security engineering concepts and practices across all phases of the software development lifecycle
• Proven ability to architect, design and develop complex security solutions that are enterprise grade – highly available, resilient, scalable and “always on”
• Proven expert experience designing, developing and implementing low level solutions in vulnerability management, Security event management, Threat management and other security solutions
• Expert experience implementing solutions with Software engineering mindset and have player/coach approach when leading the teams.
• Subject matter expert in Secure SDLC - including areas such as encryption, hashing, key management, and certificate management - TLS, PKCS#11
• Experience designing and implementing security solutions with industry standard cryptographic algorithms - knowing where, how, when to apply them
• Provide escalated technical support for issues to the software development engineering and operations teams for owned shared security services platforms.
• Drive the creation and maintenance of the strategic technical roadmaps for all owned security service platforms
• Ability to quickly learn and understand current platforms and environments to effectively architect and design new replacement solutions that meet business and technical requirements
• Ability to partner and collaborate with other team architects on solution designs
• Demonstrate the ability to articulate and communicate effectively to diverse audiences and properly translates security and risk management terminology into business terms and recommends alternative solutions to these stakeholders.

All About You
Essential Skills
• In-depth knowledge in following areas: Secure SDLC, application security, security engineering, cloud security, threat management, vulnerability management
• Expert to Work on complex enterprise-wide Corporate Security initiatives spanning multiple services/programs and drive resolution
• Expert to execute on defined strategy and ability to articulate it to key stake holders across the organization.
•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
• Consult across teams and across organizatio