Job Description

Our Purpose

We work 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. We cultivate a for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team \xe2\x80\x93 one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Senior Vice President Technology Connectivity Platform Services

OVERVIEW:
Platform services provide the suite of products and services that enable our single front door for our customers through multiple channels of API, Events and Files. 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 to speed up and deliver best products to our customers. 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.

• Will report into the EVP and will be responsible for leading, serving and enabling engineering teams who will help create, design, build, test and deploy applications at global scale.
• Will provide senior hands-on leadership to large, diverse, engineering teams who deliver change and development to the core platforms supporting multiple applications in the portfolio
• Will be responsible to lead teams based globally who support all Mastercard\'s Applications engineering capability \xe2\x80\x93 working within the Product & Engineering framework and setting direction, tone and strategy.
• Will have overall responsibility for the engineering excellence of applications platform, supporting the overall governance approach and its implementation within the application delivery teams with target to delivery continuously.
• Will manage departmental budget and tracking against finance reports.
• Will understand, adhere, and improve the company delivery methodology and industry standards where applicable. Will be a leader and positive role model for the Mastercard Way and Product and Engineering ethos.
• Will be a technical leader who is an exemplary practitioner of their craft and pragmatic visionaries. Will make a lasting impact that echoes through the technology, the services we deliver to our customers, and the company. Will work on Mastercard\xe2\x80\x99s hardest problems, serving and enabling teams who are building high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our Engineering Principles and business needs.
• Will remain hands-on 10% to 25% of time and lead by example and attracted teams across to come to them for engineering leadership, enablement, and coaching.
• Will be End-to-End technical leader who brings considerable experience designing and implementing digital payment solutions using a broad range of technologies.
• Will provide strategic thinking and leadership related to a wide range of applications and systems, or software-development methodologies.
• Will build and lead multiple high performance, highly cohesive engineering teams.
• Will partner closely with product management to define the roadmaps, develop, and deliver on new services to address market and customer 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.

All About You and What you need to bring:

• Leadership ability, even by doing as required, and strategic direction to multiple teams and/or functional areas. Ability to owns responsibility for a large strategic program.
• Hands on Full stack coding expertise in Java or GO and React or Angular ecosystems to mostly write non-feature code that enabled compliance and architecture as code, leading us toward continuous delivery
• Ability to enable collaboration across scrum teams, products and departments by coding interfaces, Consumer driven contracts, tests and architecture fitness functions.
• You are a top SME within MA and a thought leader in industry.
• Experience in managing approved staffing levels are maintained, departmental and staff education, training and cross training needs are met across 10 \xe2\x80\x93 15 scrum teams.
• Experienced in enabling teams to innovate at scale and drive revenue through product engineering excellence and capabilities like Continuous delivery and Cloud first.

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\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99s guidelines.

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