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Title and Summary

Vice President, Software Engineering

Overview:

Mastercard is on a multi-year journey to reinforce and expand the company Risk posture through three clear lines of defense with appropriate technology and monitoring. The VP Software Engineering Risk Technologies consolidates and industrializes the first- and second-line technology infrastructure and supports secure customer communication enablement.

This position leads the teams responsible for designing, building, and operating the new technology enablement for the emerging risk domain that brings together first- and second-line capabilities.

The Role:

What’s it all about and what we expect you to do day to day

• Recognized as an departmental authority and drives innovation and organizational growth through their contributions

• They implement, monitor and maintain compliance and security concerns in CI/CD pipelines to bring life to the principle of “Code is Design and Design is Code”.

• They bring cutting edge engineering practices to life in multiple evolving frameworks – Feature flags, fitness functions and whatever is required to reduce the cost and increase the lifecycle value of next feature delivered by engineering teams.

• Work on complex enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple services/programs and drives resolution

• Work with business/product owners to architect and deliver on new services to introduce capabilities through customer software, SAAS, vendor products, etc.

• Drive the architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies

• Simplify and improve the cost/benefit of a function/service/architecture strategy

• Apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests

• Venture beyond comfort zone to take on assignments across different areas of Software Engineering

• Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar

• Identify and raise awareness to Silo-ed behaviors within the organization and teams

All About You and What you need to bring:

• Product engineering experience that demonstrates thought-leadership and cross-functional influence and partnership demonstrated by a successful track record of enabling business through engineering deliver and technical innovation and excellence.

• Experienced leading advanced test set ups in production environment (e.g., A/B testing, canary releases, blue-green deployment, feature flags)

• Experienced in leading the initiation and formation of large global projects including architecting, estimating, planning, implementing and operating as well as selecting talent resources across multiple geographies and functions.

• Has experience with Data Bricks, Data Lakes, orchestration and visualization of data.

• Has experience in leading and coaching teams to perform software planning and estimation for large scale complex programs

• Has skills to drive trade-off discussions to set right development capacity based on value drivers (e.g., regulatory, security, new business, market parity, technical debt)

• Performance engineering experience to ensure applications are built to scale, run, and perform for varying demands

• Has skills to evaluate practices, metrics, and roles to continually optimize SDLC methodologies and automate processes to improve lead time and quality

• Has skills to perform architecture and cost analysis for internal, hybrid, and public cloud environments

Mastercard is an inclusive equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.