Principal, Software Engineering

Major Accountabilities:

• Successfully lead definition, development and delivery of major cross-department initiatives with broad scope and long-term business implications
• Collaborate with business and technical partners to identify and scope the opportunities, quantify costs, outline potential value and ROI, identify risks, benefits and constraints
• Partner with business to identify innovative solutions and drive strategic decisions
• Develop business case in alignment with the MasterCard objectives
• Lead scenario planning process and creation, validation and review of estimates, costs and benefits
• Actively look for opportunities for Innovation and creative problem solving
• Make presentations to the Senior Management, Business Owners and other Stakeholders and help them in decision making process
• Perform Proofs of Concepts (PoCs) to assess and identify the technologies per the needs of the organization
• Provide recommendation to Senior Management on selection of technologies and strategic technical direction for the department
• Lead creation of roadmaps that align with the department strategy and long term business vision and objectives
• Coach and mentor team members, enable knowledge sharing via brownbag sessions on new and upcoming technologies, methodologies and application appropriate frameworks
• Lead implementation of processes and supporting tools per the evolving needs of the organization
• Identifying process gaps, provide estimates for business solutions, define the initial scope/requirements of the project and manage the scope during the lifecycle of the project
• Plan overall project scope as well as define scope for each phase and iteration to meet business needs/time-to-market needs
• Define and Lead Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes in the department
• Ensure compliance to quality methodology and development of quality metrics by the team
• Create guidelines, processes and standards to ensure high overall quality of product and incident free deployment
• Instruct and guide the team to ensure that appropriate processes and documentation is in use by the team
• Ensure compliance to the defined standards
• Actively look for opportunities to modify and enhance standards per the needs of the department
• Develop documentation templates, lead and enforce development of artifacts through out the solution development lifecycle
• Ensure compliance of Audit Requirements by proactively educating team on Compliance Requirements and Integrating Compliance Requirements in SDLC
• Represent team during Compliance Audits

Education:

• Bachelors degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience

Knowledge / Experience:

• 8 plus years experience in related field, including 8 plus years experience in delivering secure solutions in Financial Services Sector is preferred
• Extensive understanding of and experience with Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies
• 8 plus years of experience with software engineering methodologies is highly desirable
• Proven track record in selection and implementation of methodologies with focus on Lean methodology, delivery of High Efficiency Solutions leading to productivity gains is required
• Demonstrate MC Core Competencies
• Experience in vendor relationship management, vendor selection, RFI/RFP process, SOW is highly desired
• Proven ability to embody MC Leadership Principles
• Proven capacity to lead and influence matrix based project team members and work as a member of a diverse and geographically distributed team
• Experience in operations environment is highly desirable

Skills/ Abilities:

• Must be politically savvy, high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and able to function under pressure in an independent environment. Possess the ability to have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results.
• Demonstrate ability to organize, manage, plan and control several concurrent initiatives with conflicting needs. Must display strong communication skills -- both verbal and written - and leadership and relationship skills with ability to influence others without having direct authority.
• Proven ability to sell solutions, persuade cross-functional group, garner support for solutions and bring group to a consensus and strong ability in collection and formulation of data, development of Metrics and dashboard reporting.