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

SessionM, A Mastercard Company offers a full suite of technology and services to deliver a customized end-to-end loyalty marketing solution that makes your customers happier and businesses more profitable. Our product team loves solving complex problems utilizing data and analytics, but we also obsess about customer experience.
Role
We live by the ‘Mastercard Way’ cultural values every day – Create Value by thinking big and bold, Grow together by enabling an open culture and supporting different perspectives and moving fast by experimenting and pivoting but owning the outcomes always!
As a Director, Software Engineering (.NET) at Mastercard, you will be expected to perform the following general duties:
*Own the design and development of enterprise-grade, scalable, and resilient software solutions
* Own the technology outcomes for your domain and teams.
* Responsible for all the technical and operational metrics and accountable to ensure that the services are delivering the intended business and technology benefits
* Own the lifecycle and ensure that solutions align to industry architecture and engineering principles
* Own the experience of your domain – to your teams, to your stakeholders and partners and to your customers
* Ensure cost effectiveness across all services
* Participate in code and design review sessions
* Define and help implementing the Non-Functional Requirements to meet the operational parameters of the platform
* Define and implement systems and processes to ensure fast and error-free release of features and capabilities
* Translate highly complex technical matters into easily digestible and actionable plans
* Provide functional and directional guidance to staff and recommend policy or strategic direction changes to management.
* Guide and mentor your team of engineers
* Lead and manage senior technical individual contributor and management staffs with the ability to foster open communications across various organizational levels.
* Support & actively collaborate with your product counterparts in ensuring the product propositions continue to evolve and meet both business and technology imperatives
All About You

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience.
Knowledge / Experience:
• Proven years of proven experience in software engineering delivery leadership at enterprise scale
• In depth Experience development applications in .NET technologies
• Experience preparing & delivering executive level presentations to business and technology audiences.
• Experience mentoring and developing resources in a high performance culture.
* Experience in design and development of enterprise-grade scalable and resilient software solutions
* Experience in different architecture patterns – REST architectures, Event-driven architectures and a deep understanding of microservices and domain-driven principles
* Expertise in Agile and DevOps – with proven track record in delivering solutions using these principles
* Experience in Cloud-based solutions (AWS preferred) with a strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and service considerations and experience is building cloud-native solutions


Skills/ Abilities:

* Strong written and verbal communication skills
* Has skills to succinctly articulate architecture patterns of complex systems, with business and technical implications, to executive and customer stakeholders
* Has experience in leading and coaching teams to perform software planning and estimation for large scale complex programs using metrics driven constructs
* Motivate direct and indirect reports to deliver superior results.
* Ability to interact across multiple organisational levels and assume a lead role and set direction for large or complex projects.

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.