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Manager Software Engineering

Overview

The Mastercard Business Intelligence Application Development Team builds innovative solutions that position Mastercard as a leader in delivering advanced analytics and reporting capabilities to a global customer base. We collaborate closely with product partners and technical teams to enhance existing products and launch new solutions worldwide.

We are seeking a highly skilled engineering leader who will:

- Drive architecture, design, and technical strategy for new development initiatives, production support, and platform modernization while ensuring consistent delivery quality across internal teams and vendor partners.

- Provide detailed cost and effort estimates, define technical scope and requirements, and partner with project managers and stakeholders to effectively manage scope throughout the project lifecycle.

- Lead, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, continuous learning, and operational excellence.

- Build strong partnerships across Product, Engineering, Quality, and Business teams to align technology execution with business objectives and strategic priorities.

Role

As part of Mastercard's Payment Performance Intelligence Program, you will lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable full-stack applications powered by Java-based microservices and modern React or Angular frontends.

In this role, you will combine deep technical expertise with strong people leadership to guide multiple engineers through the full software development lifecycle, influence architectural decisions, and drive successful delivery of business-critical initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

- Provide technical leadership and architectural direction aligned with Mastercard's Enterprise Architecture standards and strategic technology roadmap.

- Lead, mentor, and manage a high-performing team of software engineers, fostering technical excellence, career growth, and a collaborative team culture.

- Drive execution and delivery of complex engineering initiatives while balancing quality, reliability, scalability, and speed.

- Design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure software solutions that meet evolving business requirements.

- Write and review high-quality, maintainable code while establishing engineering best practices and development standards.

-Establish and promote effective unit, functional, and integration testing practices to validate software quality and system behavior throughout the development lifecycle.

-Guide performance engineering efforts to identify bottlenecks and optimize applications for performance, scalability, and reliability.

- Ensure platform designs support high availability, resilience, and near zero-downtime production operations.

- Collaborate with business partners, product owners, and stakeholders to define product strategy, roadmaps, business cases, and delivery priorities.

- Partner with Quality Engineering, Product Management, Infrastructure, and Security teams to ensure successful end-to-end product delivery.

- Drive operational excellence through proactive monitoring, automation, incident management, systemic troubleshooting and continuous improvement initiatives.

- Lead capacity planning, resource management, and technical decision-making across multiple concurrent initiatives.

- Champion innovation by evaluating emerging technologies, modern engineering practices, and automation opportunities.

- Foster an inclusive and high-performance environment built on accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement.

All About You

Education

- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Leadership & Communication

- Proven experience leading and managing software engineering teams in an agile environment.

- Strong coaching, mentoring, and talent development skills with a demonstrated ability to grow engineering talent.

- Experience managing cross-functional stakeholders and driving alignment across business and technology organizations.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence decisions at multiple organizational levels.

- Strong ownership mindset with the ability to lead through ambiguity and manage competing priorities effectively.

Technical Expertise

- Strong expertise in Java 17+, Spring ecosystem, Hibernate, and enterprise application design.

- Proven experience building and leading applications based on microservices architecture.

- Strong experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and messaging frameworks such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS, or cloud-native messaging solutions.

- Hands-on experience with React JS (16+) or Angular (14+) frontend development.

- Experience designing and developing APIs using OpenAPI specifications.

- Strong knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, Node.js, UNIX shell scripting, Python, and Groovy scripting.

- Experience with enterprise databases including Oracle, SQL Server, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch.

- Strong understanding of data structures and their application in designing efficient, scalable software solutions

Tools & Methodologies

- Build and dependency management using Gradle and Maven.

- Experience with infrastructure and configuration automation tools such as Chef and Ansible.

- Strong CI/CD experience using Jenkins, SonarQube, and automated quality gates.

- Proven experience working in Agile, Scrum, and DevOps environments.

Cloud & Infrastructure

- Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, or GCP.

- Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.

- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk, ELK Stack, Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience working with multiple programming languages such as Scala, C#, Python, or similar technologies.

- Familiarity with workflow orchestration and automation platforms such as Netflix Conductor, Apache Airflow, Camunda, or N8N.

- Experience implementing observability solutions using OpenTelemetry.

- Familiarity with rules engines such as Drools or EasyRules.

- Experience managing globally distributed teams and vendor partnerships is a strong plus.

Soft Skills

- Strong analytical thinking an...

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