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Mastercard Vice President, Software Engineering in Pune, India
Our Purpose
We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Title and Summary
Vice President, Software Engineering
Vice President, Engineering
Data-as-a-Service Co-Founder
At Mastercard Commercial Solutions, we empower businesses to succeed through innovative, trusted payment solutions that deliver a seamless, digital-first experience around the world.
Role Overview:
As a Software Engineering leader in Commercial Solutions at Mastercard, you will serve as the Engineering Leader for the business-critical, rapidly growing Data-as-a-Service program. You will manage teams that operate in modern full-stack development practices and tools to create world-class microservices and web applications. We’re building a global business-to-business (B2B) technology platform to help businesses of all sizes streamline how they manage payments when buying or selling products and services. Our Data-as-a-Service program seeks to drive additional value for our customers based on the wealth of information in their commercial data.
You will work in our Mastercard technology location in Pune, India, which provides a state-of-the-art environment for technology teams to thrive in our collaborative, Agile engineering culture. Your role will be responsible for leading the design, development, and maintenance of our data infrastructure. This role requires a strategic leader with a deep understanding of micro services architecture, resiliency patterns, knowledge of full stack applications, data architecture, big data technologies, and very strong team leadership. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of building scalable platforms, managing large datasets, and driving data strategy in alignment with business goals.
The role will require you to:
• Develop and implement the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the data platform to support business objectives.
• Lead and mentor a high-performing team of full stack engineers, application architects, data engineers, data architects, and data scientists.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to align data initiatives with overall company strategy.
• Oversee the architecture, design, and development of scalable solutions.
• Ensure data integrity, security, scalability, efficiency and availability across the platform.
• Drive the adoption of best engineering and operational practices, including data warehousing, and data governance.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation.
• Evaluate and integrate new tools and technologies to enhance the platform’s capabilities.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence.
• Oversee the day-to-day operations of the platform, ensuring high performance and reliability.
• Develop and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to track the effectiveness of data driven initiatives.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product, analytics, and business units, to understand data needs and deliver solutions.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders effectively.
• Promote data-driven decision-making across the organization.
Required Experience:
• Bachelor's degree
• You have a solid foundation in Computer Science fundamentals
• You have demonstrated strong customer focus
• You have demonstrated excellent leadership and management capability for large engineering organization with globally distributed teams
• You have experience building applications using Java, Python, Scala etc. and deploying/managing them in a cloud environment
• You have experience using storage technologies such as PostgreSQL or Oracle and delivering solutions that leverage them at a massive scale
• You have exposure to automated testing and releasing software in a continuous delivery model using Git
• You have strong expertise in big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Kafka).
• You have proficiency in data warehousing solutions (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery).
• You are passionate about the art of delivering the highest quality software to customers
• You have familiarity with machine learning and AI technologies.
• You enjoy working in an Agile team focused on continuous improvement and iterative deliveries
• You have a strong desire to learn best practices and modern software architecture and collaborate within a team
• You have excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical people
Nice To Have:
• Experience working within the payments, commercial card space or corporate banking space
• Strong ability to multi-task, organize, manage, and implement complex projects whether directly or through supervision
• Operates with minimal supervision and able to make informed, well-reasoned decisions independently
• Thrives in an environment that is fast-paced, rapidly changing, and customer-oriented
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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