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.

Job Overview:

The PVS Identity Solution program is looking for a Manager, Software Engineering to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.

• Purpose of this role is to lead and manage the PVS teams.
• Lead the team to custom build the solutions per product roadmap.
• Research alternative and innovative technical solutions for changing business needs.

Role:

• Responsible for development and support of systems application software in adherence with Master Card standards, processes and best practices.

• Develop high quality, secure, scalable software solutions based on product roadmap within expected time and budget.

• Research, create and evaluate technical solution alternatives for business needs.

• Ensuring team is motivated and enables career path of the employees reporting into this role.

• Mentor and coach team members and help in establishing and growing a team

• System Design & Architecture: Design and implement highly resilient, large-scale distributed systems using event-driven architectures.

• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Technical Strategy: Introduce new technologies and architectures aligned with Mastercard’s enterprise guidelines through proof-of-concepts (POCs).

• Automation & DevOps: Automate and simplify software delivery processes, ensuring scalability and reliability.

• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers and other stakeholders to prioritize features and make trade-off decisions.

• All About you

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent education.

• Excellent understanding and knowledge of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies and Agile / SAFe Agile is required.

• 8-12 Years of total experience. At least 3 years of people manager experience.

• Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive, and able to function under pressure to meet tight deadlines.

• Strong communication skills - both verbal and written – and able to quickly learn and implement new technologies, application appropriate frameworks and tools.

• Strong relationship, collaborative skills and organizational skills with a high degree of initiative and self-motivation and able to work as a member of matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team.

• Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities.

• Actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency.

• Excellent troubleshooting skills and be able to proactively work to prevent a problem.

• Competent with object-oriented design and development techniques (design patterns, UML)

• Excellent knowledge of Java, Cloud.

• Exposure to design, architecture and delivery of Java applications. Further exposure to Rest based services, Spring etc is preferred.

• Knowledgeable in Enterprise Level Application Frameworks and Tools.

• Excellent knowledge of application architecture, performance tuning and scaling.

• Knowledge of payments domain and Indian payment eco system is desirable.

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.