Lead and coach software engineering teams to deliver high-availability commercial payments solutions; drive Agile best practices, oversee architecture and delivery, communicate progress to product, customers and senior management.
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
In Control For Commercial Payments is a system within the Smart Data Commercial Platform. We allow issuing banks to provide Virtual Card solutions for their Commercial customers by provisioning and reporting through our 3 channels of API/Batch/UI.
We are looking for a Manager to drive and lead scrum teams of dedicated team members to delivering on customer/platform commitments. Our systems are high availability/volume systems designed to deliver to a global network of issuing banks.
Who are we looking for?
As an effective manager at Mastercard you will have experience leading a team of developers, communicating with senior management/customer and solid experience in a development/architect role to anticipate and drive technical discussions with architects and business operations groups. Strong Agile experience is also something which the manager would be aware of and ideally have experience of driving within a technology organisation.
Key Responsibilities
Formally supervise and coach team(s)
Oversee effective development and delivery of software solutions
Drive positive change within systems/process to optimally deliver on commitments from the teams
Drive agile best practices amongst the teams ensuring the team is adhering to agile practices.
Communication of status/progress to product teams/customers/senior management
Technology
Experience with the following technologies is a distinct advantage:
Java/Spring/Hibernate
Web Services both RESTful and SOAP based
GIT VCS, Bitbucket
Less required but differentiator Agile skills are:
SAFe - Agile framework
Rally/ALM - Agile tooling
Previous experience in the financial services is also an advantage when it comes to compliance requirements such as PCI DSS.
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:
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
In Control For Commercial Payments is a system within the Smart Data Commercial Platform. We allow issuing banks to provide Virtual Card solutions for their Commercial customers by provisioning and reporting through our 3 channels of API/Batch/UI.
We are looking for a Manager to drive and lead scrum teams of dedicated team members to delivering on customer/platform commitments. Our systems are high availability/volume systems designed to deliver to a global network of issuing banks.
Who are we looking for?
As an effective manager at Mastercard you will have experience leading a team of developers, communicating with senior management/customer and solid experience in a development/architect role to anticipate and drive technical discussions with architects and business operations groups. Strong Agile experience is also something which the manager would be aware of and ideally have experience of driving within a technology organisation.
Key Responsibilities
Formally supervise and coach team(s)
Oversee effective development and delivery of software solutions
Drive positive change within systems/process to optimally deliver on commitments from the teams
Drive agile best practices amongst the teams ensuring the team is adhering to agile practices.
Communication of status/progress to product teams/customers/senior management
Technology
Experience with the following technologies is a distinct advantage:
Java/Spring/Hibernate
Web Services both RESTful and SOAP based
GIT VCS, Bitbucket
Less required but differentiator Agile skills are:
SAFe - Agile framework
Rally/ALM - Agile tooling
Previous experience in the financial services is also an advantage when it comes to compliance requirements such as PCI DSS.
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.
Mastercard Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
8755 W Higgins Rd, Chicago, IL, United States
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