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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
Director, Software Engineering Job Title: Director - Software EngineeringWho 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
As the Director of Mastercard Merchant Acceptance Program, you are an innovator who embraces, adopts, and studies the latest technology to solve challenging business problems. You are a leader who inspires the team to think “out of the box” and effectively communicates across all levels of the organization.
Merchant Acceptance Program consists of products & solutions that aim to increase Mastercard's acceptance footprint and improving quality of card holder experience at the point of interaction.
Role:
Responsible for planning, developing, and executing projects across domains to meet business needs.
Understand cross functioning systems scope and project objectives, as well as the role and function of each team member, in order to effectively lead the project team and ensure that business needs are met.
Ensure timely and accurate communication with project staff and key stakeholders throughout the life cycle of the project.
Regularly communicate to management regarding the status of specific project deliverables.
Identifies key barriers to a projects or departments success and actively manages all mitigation activities.
Prioritize and provide input into cross application/system enhancements, new products, processes, standards or plans in support of the business.
Effectively deal with and develop solutions to moderately difficult problems.
Provide technical support to Business Owners during implementation of new products/services.
Determine development impacts to current processing and work with analysts and engineers to ensure accuracy of enhancements.
Document and coordinate audit controls and PCI requirements.
Provide strategic thinking and leadership related to a wide range of applications and systems, or software-development methodologies
Continuously engage and improve teams' performance by conducting recurring 1-1 meetings, knowing your people, managing career development, and understanding who is at risk
Provide and facilitate timely feedback, coaching in the moment, and mentoring for staff at all levels
Knowledge and Skill Requirements:
More than 16 years of product engineering experience, preferably in API and web development
Experienced in building platforms with Microservice architecture and RESTful APIs.
Experienced in building mobile applications in Android and/or iOS.
High-energy, detail-oriented and proactive with the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment.
High degree of initiative and self-motivation with a willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities.
Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with strong relationship, collaborative and organization skills.
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 comes 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.
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.
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