Senior Technical Leader

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.

• The Decision Management program enables intelligent decision-based products through streaming analytics with the ability to govern these decisions and manage their outcomes with business agility.
• This program leverages business rules & AI engines, a streaming big data cluster, an in-memory data grids, APIs, & UIs to deliver real-time decisions at a global scale.

As a Software Engineering Manager/Engineering Lead, you will be part of a team that helps prevent fraud on every Mastercard transaction in this world.

• Are you a people manager and technical programmer with experience working on high-performance applications?
• Do you have the skills to lead a development team to code scalable, reliable, maintainable, and secure Java decision operations applications?

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan, design, and develop technical solutions and alternatives to meet business requirements in adherence with MasterCard standards, engineering principles, processes, and best practices.
• Provide strong people leadership and technical guidance to your team – lead with a technical vision prioritizing business value.
• Lead by example with hands-on approaches that demonstrate engineering excellence.
• Work closely with the director, product manager, technical leads, and architects to align on objectives and architecture guidelines.
• Ensure successful delivery of software capabilities adhering to SAFe Agile processes and ceremonies.
• Take ownership of complex problems and production incidents with dependencies across services and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive timely resolution.
• Possess the aptitude to quickly learn and contribute to our complex platform.
• Perform code reviews to ensure best practices.
• Foster a blameless postmortems culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement corrective and preventive measures.
• Establish effective partnerships and relationships across multiple organizations.
• Encourage knowledge sharing and collaboration within your Guild/Program to drive the reuse of patterns, libraries, and best practices, enhancing overall productivity.

Requirements:

• Proven track record of delivering results with available resources and developing a high-performing development team.
• A strong technical leader who can effectively communicate your vision and roadmap to a wide variety of stakeholders and successfully engage your development team.
• Proficient programming skills with a deep understanding of Java, SQL, Linux, Spring Framework.
• Experience working with highly scalable, reliable, maintainable, performant, and secure applications.
• Solid expertise in unit testing and familiarity with mocking frameworks like JUnit, Mockito.
• Capability to identify and analyze user requirements, clarify requirements with the team, and provide high-level solution and estimates.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Desirable skills – experience working with Kafka, Redis, Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus.

Corporate Security Responsibility:

• Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security.
• All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.