MastercardLead Software Engineer
Mastercard is hiring a Lead Software Engineer. Level rates it ; you can apply on Mastercard.
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- On Level's scale, this software engineer role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include software engineering, cloud architecture and java.
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- Level lists 948 other open roles at Mastercard.
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Leads software engineering projects and cloud architecture to develop enhanced software solutions for franchise and legal services.
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
Lead Software EngineerJob DescriptionJob Title:
Lead Software Engineer
Overview:
The Mastercard Franchise and Legal Solutions (FLS) program is a suite of services which maintains and enhances the foundation of the franchise by understanding evolving business needs. It provides customer focus lifecycle management, and the discipline for scaled growth for partners, while ensuring ease of business with Mastercard and business optimization through world-class training, analytics, and risk management. The program resolves customer disputes and security related events, through data driven insights and investigative intelligence, promoting balance, integrity and security across Mastercard’s multi rail ecosystem.
We are currently seeking a passionate, collaborative, and experienced software engineer to join the Team. Are you a collaborator capable of communicating effectively with Business and IT stakeholders across all organizational levels? Are you an innovator who embraces, adopts, and studies the latest technology to solve challenging business problems? Are you a leader who inspires the team to think “out of the box” and effectively communicates across all levels of the organization? If this describes you, Mastercard wants to talk to you about joining our team.
Role
• Leads software engineering projects and creates the development and delivery of enhanced software solutions. Hands-on developer who writes high quality, secure code that is modular, functional, and testable.
• Research alternative technical solutions for changing business needs.
• Responsible for managing the overall cloud architecture and investigation of new technologies to help the platform evolve at the speed of business
• Create solutions with high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, high quality and faster time to market.
• Master of design principles such as DRY, Single Responsibility, SOLID
• Lead day to day system development and maintenance activities of the team to meet service level agreements (SLAs). Drives measurable improvements in the maintenance, operational and runtime characteristics of your team’s software.
• Collaborate with business and technical partners to identify and scope the opportunities, outline potential value and ROI, identify risks, benefits and constraints.
• Develop overall strategic technical plan and create architecture proposals based on identified solution gaps. As recognized subject matter expert, lead planning, design and implementation of technical solutions
• Partner with Technical Project Managers in implementation of processes per the evolving needs of the team and the solutions.
• Ensure adequate test coverage in Unit Testing, System Testing/Integration Testing and Performance Testing. Perform Quality Inspections and Walkthroughs throughout the SDLC including Requirements Review, Architecture Review, Design Review, Code Review and Security Review to ensure compliance with MasterCard standards. Support collection and reporting of project and software metrics.
• Actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency.
• Mentor and guide other team members during all phases of the SDLC
• Successfully lead production incident and problem management, identification of root cause and permanently correct within application and dependent systems.
• Develop documentation templates, lead and enforce development of documentation throughout the development lifecycle of the solution.
• Ensure compliance of Audit Requirements by proactively educating team on Compliance Requirements and Integrating Compliance Requirements in SDLC. Represent team during Compliance Audits.
• Advocate principles through speaking engagements outside of current organization/platform
• Comprehensive knowledge of team architecture. Makes trade-offs between short terms and long-term needs
• Provides input into performance appraisal process for junior employees
Technology Skills
• Object-oriented design and programming
• Java, Spring, Spring boot, Microservices
• REST API development
• Spring, JPA, Hibernate, RDBMS, Oracle, JDBC
• Hands-on experience of front-end technology stack like React JS and/or Angular is added advantage
• Jenkins CI/CD, Sonar integration
• Tomcat
• PCF/AWS/Azure/Any other cloud experience
Job Specific Experiences
• Knowledge with Pivotal Cloud Foundry or any other cloud platform AWS or Azure or GCP is preferred.
• Experience in delivering secure solutions in Financial Services Sector is preferred.
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of Software Engineering concepts and methodologies is required.
• Strong communication skills -- both verbal and written, collaboration skills and organizational skills
• Ability to quickly learn and implement new technologies, frameworks, tools and support multiple concurrent activities.
• Ability to adapt to a fast-changing environment.
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.
How we rate this
Lead Software Engineer at Mastercard rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
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