Lead Software Engineer

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

Lead Software Engineer

Overview
• Responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions.
• Define requirements for new applications and customization adhering to MasterCard standards, processes and best practices.
• We are looking for individuals with a passion for improving and automating software development processes.
• This position requires strong collaboration and communication skills and a high level of motivation and drive.
• Individuals in this role will collaboratively work with all members of the credit card authorization software development team. These team members include contractors and employees in multiple global locations.
• Have you ever wanted to work as part of the high energy, dynamic CORE Product Development team at MasterCard?
• Are you motivated and want to be a part of a highly successful team that drives towards a world beyond cash?
• Do you have a passion for leading the change as we move towards MasterCard 3.0?


--Role--

• Plan, design and develop technical solutions and alternatives to meet business requirements in adherence with MasterCard standards, processes and best practices.
• Accountable for full systems development life cycle including creating high quality requirements documents, use-cases, design and other technical artifacts including but not limited to detailed test strategy/test design, performance benchmarking, release rollout and deployment plans, contingency/back-out plans, feasibility study, cost and time analysis and detailed estimates.
• Perform system maintenance, production incident problem management, identification of root cause, remediation of the problems and on-call pager support schedule. Select appropriate technical frameworks and solution delivery methodology.
• Research and evaluate current and upcoming technologies and frameworks.
• Participate in PoCs (Proof of Concept) and help the Department with selection of Vendor Solutions, Technologies, Methodologies and Frameworks.
• Follow and promote Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes in the department. Actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency.
• Be recognized as an expert for specific features, components or technologies and share your knowledge with others.
• Maintain a high quality in a complex and constantly evolving workspace.
• Contribute to our ongoing process improvement activities.


--All About You--

• Education:
•Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience.

Knowledge / Experience:
• Understanding of software design principles, patterns, algorithms, data structures, and multi-threading concepts.
• Ability to leverage and utilize industry-standard test automation frameworks, tools and practices.
• Knowledgeable of continuous delivery practices.
• Experience working in an agile and waterfall environment preferred.
• Ability to work across multiple operating systems such as Windows, Unix and Linux.
• Experience with testing frameworks and methodologies (JUnit, mocking, etc.).
• Solid experience with relational databases, including ability to write efficient SQL queries and Stored Procedures.
• Experience with the following technologies:
o Unix/Linux and shell scripting
o In-depth expertise in Java Language and its related frameworks
o Design and Architecting experience in building Production ready scalable, reliable and Fault Tolerant systems using Microservices Architecture
o Expertise in Event Driven Application Development
o Configuration Management tools (e.g., Bitbucket, Git, Mercurial)
o Maven, Jenkins Pipeline
o XML

Skills/ Abilities:
• Proficient oral and written communication skills.
• Creative, resourceful and innovative problem solver.
• Independent learner with a demonstrated aptitude for acquiring knowledge and skills.

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.