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

Senior Vice President, CONNECT Ecosystem

OVERVIEW:

Connect and the Connect Ecosystems teams provide the suite of products and services that enable our single front door for our B2B customers through Connect (our B2B web interface), our front-end framework teams, our fine-grained user provisioning teams, and our customer and asset platforms. This program and group are responsible for driving unification and simplification across our Mastercard teams, providing tools and solutions for all product and engineering teams across our B2B ecosystem. This role requires a big picture thinker who is able to see opportunities to drive productive synergies across our teams (those who report into this role and others across Mastercard). We are an agile development organization with teams distributed globally across technology hubs in the US, India, and Ireland.

The Senior Vice President Software Development Engineering provides both strategic and tactical leadership to Mastercard global development teams focused on the development of applications that proved solutions to our global customers and internal engineering teams. You will lead a team of engineering professionals to build, enhance, launch, and manage a portfolio of technical solutions that provide the necessary tools to build our unified experiences. You need to have a demonstrated ability to hire and develop high-performance software development organizations. Our systems are designed to be highly scalable, low latency, highly available in order to meet our customer needs. This role is a technical role who can drive things by working with leaders across the organization as well as dig deeper into solutions when needed. The candidate must be able to navigate and successfully build relationships across the organization, understand our current capabilities, align teams to common goals, and execute on the strategies to drive value for Mastercard.

ROLE:

• End-to-end technical leader who brings considerable experience designing and implementing solutions using a broad range of technologies.
• Provides strategic thinking and leadership related to a wide range of applications and systems, or software-development methodologies
• Build and lead multiple high performance, highly cohesive engineering teams
• Partner closely with product management to define the roadmaps, develop and deliver on new services to address market and cutomer needs
• Talent leadership: coach team members to their maximum potential by providing objective and actionable career guidance and opportunities; identify talent gaps; recruit and retain high quality technology talent
• Establish regular reporting, progress against goals, tracking of KPIs and various metrics to share with senior leadership and business unit executives
• Drive change across processes, practices, and technology within the organization by building and maintaining a high caliber team that can deliver effectively and be a role model for the rest of the organization

ALL ABOUT YOU:

• You are a hands-on, technical and people leader able to manage directly and through others.
• You are recognized for your subject matter expertise allowing you to regularly dive deep.
• Confident and effective communicator able to work closely with cross-functional teams and collaborate with all members of the organization to define and achieve holistic business and technical objectives
• Your leadership style is based on building trust with your team, your peers, and senior stakeholders.
• Outcome driven; comfortable setting measurable, data informed objectives and holding teams accountable
• Has skills to evaluate practices, metrics, and roles to continually optimize SDLC methodologies and automate processes to improve lead time and quality
• Leading in a matrixed environment across an enterprise is a bug plus
• Skilled at the business side of technology (e.g. managing to a budget, organizational design, recruiting, and partnering with supporting lines of business - finance, HR, legal, other groups - as necessary)
• Strong strategic skills along with demonstrated success in influencing senior leadership, provides recommendations and opinions.
• Willing and able to challenge established views and assumptions at all levels and drive change
• Ability to drive consistent and repeatable results

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.