Manager, Software Engineering

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.

Overview
The Mastercard Commercial Solutions team in Dublin have an exciting opportunity for a Manager of Software Development to help further grow our organization by enabling teams to enhance and modernize our Commercial business-to-business (B2B) digital payments services. This position will be key to growing a global B2B technology platform, operating at-scale, requiring focus on performance, security, and reliability.

Role
As Manager, Software Development Engineering you will manage scrum teams building commercial Java-based, distributed, highly available applications.
• Take a product initiative from requirements to production
• Lead and guide an agile teams of scrum masters, business analysts, developers and testers to deliver software that meets business objectives
• Oversee effective development and delivery of software solutions
• Collaborate with the Product Owners, Business/Tech Operations, and other stakeholders
• Drive positive change within systems/process to optimally deliver on commitments
• Drive agile best practices amongst the teams
• Drive your team’s capability and performance through coaching, mentoring, performance feedback and career development
• Communication of status/progress to product teams/customers/senior management
• Contribute to the knowledge of the software development guild

All About You
• Experience with managing development teams in a multi-team environment, and experience with remote management
• Experience with applying Scrum or SAFe Agile in a product development environment where high levels of performance, reliability and security are essential
• Great communicator with proven experience in collaborating with business stakeholders
• Payments and fintech experience will be an advantage when it comes to compliance requirements such as PCI DSS
• Experience with the following technologies is a distinct advantage:
• Java/Spring/Hibernate
• RESTful APIs
• RDBMS such as Oracle and Postgres

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.