Overview
The ideal candidate is passionate about the payment space in general and identity authentication space in particular, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset as we delve into building new solutions and make a positive impact on how users make payments while ensuring high security and convenience.
Role
In this Engineering Manager position, you will: - Partner with various stakeholders like Product, Technical and Business operation teams and other teams across Mastercard to understand the product requirements, lead the design and architecture, build and deliver solutions.
- Responsible for development and support of systems application software in adherence with MasterCard 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 the business needs.
- Create systems and testing documentation per department standards.
- Follow standards in development and testing to ensure compliance with Audit Requirements.
- Follow MasterCard Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes.
- Support collection and reporting of project and software metrics.
- Ensuring team is motivated and enable career path of the employees reporting into this role.
- Mentor and coach team members and help in establishing and growing a team
- Manage other Leads and SCRUM teams consisting of development & test engineers, Product Manager-Technical and Technical program managers towards business objectives.
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.
- Expertise in building software applications and leading teams.
- 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 building high performing and secure applications with excellent knowledge of architecture, design, performance and security principles.
- Have good knowledge and expertise of building java based systems and services using latest cloud technologies and micro services based architecture.
- Knowledgeable in Enterprise Level Application Frameworks and Tools.
- Knowledge and expertise in payments domain is desirable.
- Technical Manager with hands-on design & coding expertise.
- Good people management skills, keeping the team committed to objectives and driving technical deliverable through mix of technical and managerial leadership.
- Expertise in java based applications, micro services, REST API, database knowledge, cloud experience for e.g. in AWS, PCF etc., architecture and design skills, security standards and performance tuning.
The ideal candidate for this position should:
- Is passionate about building innovative solutions to make a positive impact on how people make payments globally.
- Is technology and data savvy and understands how data can enable convenience in payments and at the same time prevent frauds.
- Have a clear mission that focuses on the business objectives and rally the team towards a common goal.
- Skilled in planning and execution and setting right expectations and be a great partner to work with all stakeholders across Mastercard.
- In a problem solver with attitude of getting things done. '
- Be a strong, confident, and exacting writer and speaker, able to communicate your vision and roadmap effectively to a wide variety of stakeholders
