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 Mastercard Cyber Security Services team is looking for a Manager, Software Engineering to help manage and drive delivery for our Mass Attack Protection Solution suite of services. The ideal candidate is passionate about the people leadership, software architecture, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset. They will play a critical leadership role in owning resource management, capabilities and products.

Must have:

• Need to be able to have substantial conversations with software engineers and architects.

• People's person - know how to interact and engage with people / different personalities.

• Ability to delegate effectively and empower your team.

• Strategic thinking / attention to detail.

• Organizational, planning and documentation skills.

• Leadership, teambuilding, mentoring skills, interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.

Role

• Partner with Product Owners and Product Managers to identify business opportunities, solve problems, and deliver solutions.

• Identify opportunities to grow your customer portfolio.

• Take responsibility for driving revenue.

• People, recruiting and talent management

• Design and develop high quality, secure, scalable software solutions based on technical requirements specifications and design artifacts within expected time and budget.

• Manage a team of highly skilled engineers and provide technology leadership to other leaders.

• Drive, manage and take ownership of team’s roadmap – together with Product team – which includes technical/business asks.

• Participate in architectural discussions, iteration planning, and feature sizing meetings.

All About You

• Look at everything through the eyes of the customer and see their need for an easy and profitable life.

• Have a clear mission that focuses on the attention of the customer’s need above your own.

• Relevant experience on large, cross-functional IT projects, including requirements gathering and relationship building with business clients.

• Go out of your way to get close to the customer to find out what their needs are and how a product or service can help.

• Able to lead project teams, collaborate with business partners, vendor/consulting organizations and peer level professionals from other IT disciplines.

• Able to mentor/grow less experienced team members.

• Be skilled at explaining technical problems succinctly and clearly.

• High degree of initiative and self-motivation with a willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities

• Expert communication skills, both verbal and written, with strong relationship, collaborative and organization skills

• Be a strong, confident, and exacting writer and speaker, able to communicate your vision and roadmap effectively to a wide variety of stakeholders.

• Understanding of SDLC and experience in establishing processes, standards and governance to bring efficiency within development team, together with Agile methodology.

• Always look for potential solutions to solve problems.

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.