Director, Software Engineering

We are seeking a Director, Software Engineering to lead major projects and deliver quality software solutions in a timely and cost-effective manner.

The successful candidate will research and recommend alternative technical solutions for changing business needs, assure daily team activities meet SLA requirements, and align with organisational and enterprise strategies.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading definition, development, and delivery of major cross-department initiatives with broad scope and long-term business implications
• Collaborating with business and technical partners to identify and scope opportunities, quantify costs, outline potential value and ROI, identify risks, benefits, and constraints
• Developing business cases in alignment with Mastercard objectives
• Leading scenario planning and creation, validation, and review of estimates, costs, and benefits
• Performing Proofs of Concept (PoCs) to assess and identify technologies per organisational needs
• Providing recommendations to Senior Management on selection of technologies and strategic technical direction for the department
• Coaching and mentoring team members, enabling knowledge sharing via brownbag sessions on new and upcoming technologies, methodologies, and application frameworks
• Leading implementation of processes and supporting tools per evolving organisational needs
• Providing integration design and guidance to business partners for external party integrations with the rewards platform
• Ensuring security policies are properly enforced and technological due diligence is performed
• Instructing and guiding the team to ensure appropriate processes and documentation are in use
• Ensuring compliance with defined standards

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, or Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Extensive understanding of and experience with Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies
• Demonstrated MC Core Competencies and Leadership Principles
• Proven ability to lead and influence matrix-based project team members and work as a member of a diverse and geographically distributed team
• Experience working with legal and compliance teams to ensure 3rd party contracts protect Mastercard interests
• Experience constructing service level agreements to be used with 3rd parties and clients
• Experience integrating systems within a service-oriented architecture and e-commerce platforms
• Knowledge of design and security patterns coupled with an ability to persuade and assist in development
• Experience integrating technologies with SAML and OAuth tokens
• Experience developing, designing, and operating global systems supporting multiple languages and currencies
• Experience integrating web services with best-in-class platforms such as Layer 7 and Data Power
• Experience building de-coupled systems using technologies such as message queues, No-SQL data storage, etc.
• Experience implementing complicated projects and systems using agile methodologies

Skills/Abilities:

• Politically savvy, high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive, and able to function under pressure in an independent environment
• High degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results
• Ability to organise, manage, plan, and control several concurrent initiatives with conflicting needs
• Strong communication skills -- both verbal and written – and leadership and relationship skills with ability to influence others without direct authority
• Proven ability to sell solutions, persuade cross-functional groups, garner support for solutions, and bring groups to a consensus
• Strong ability in collection and formulation of data, development of Metrics, and dashboard reporting
• Design and development of object-oriented systems, unit tests with mocking technologies, Java, JavaScript, C#
• Design and database scripting for RDBMS such as Oracle and SQL Server
• Design and development using cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure
• Design and development of enterprise web services using both SOAP and REST
• Ability to communicate designs and integration plans using diagramming software such as Visio
• Design and development of batch processes

Travel: Up to 10-20% travel may be required in support of 3rd party integration activity and working with a global workforce.