Manager, Software Engineering - Java Backend

The Mastercard Account Management Services team have an exciting opportunity for a Manager of Software Engineering to enhance and modernize our payments services. This position will be key to growing a global technology platform, operating at-scale, requiring focus on performance, security, and reliability.

- Do you want to positively influence the experience of millions of customers?
- Do you like to get involved in the creation and execution of strategic initiatives centered around digital payments?
- Do you look forward to developing and engaging with high performant diverse teams around the globe?
- Do you like to own and be accountable for highly visible strategically important teams?

Role

- Managing multiple scrum teams of Software developers and testers to develop quality software solutions in a timely and cost-effective manner.
- Successfully lead definition, development and delivery of major cross-department initiatives with broad scope and long-term business implications.
- Provide technical leadership and direction to software development teams in the development of Java, microservices, Rest APIs & event based applications and platform.
- Work closely with product and architecture teams on product definition, technical design, and overall execution for the team.
- Ensure the project or effort is adequately staffed; trained and managed. Ensure personnel have appropriate skills and behaviours; and effectively communicate performance results; as necessary, managing each effort within approved manpower and budget guidelines.
- Automate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development by actively evangelizing the need to automate and simplify where needed.
- Own complex problems having dependency across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution.
- Define, design, and develop procedures and solutions at a service level to meet the business requirements/enhancements.
- Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners.
- Drive blameless postmortems culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement learnings
- Lead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence.

All About You:
- Technical Hands-on experience in coding in the current role on Java
- Overall 10-14 years of career experience into Java Development & Engineering
- Experience of Team Management or as a Technical Lead
- Hands-on experience in designing solutions and full stack development in modern technologies for large enterprise technology platforms and systems.
- Strong knowledge of software development principles, design patterns, and best practices.
- Specific expertise in Java, Spring boot, microservices, Rest APIs, Kafka, Oracle, Test Automation and its frameworks.
- Has experience designing and implementing solutions focusing on the non-functional concerns - Performance, Security, Scalability, Availability, Extensibility, Resiliency.
- Operate with urgency, fairness and decency to address challenges and solve for new opportunities.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, including product management, BizOps, TechOps, customer experience.
- Strong communication skills - both verbal and written - with strong relationship building, collaborative skills and organizational skills.
- Experienced in Agile methodologies of software development and SDLC practices.
- Able to interact with product and business stakeholders independently.
- Have strong decision-making skills, lead retrospection and continually improve as a result.
- Enthusiastic, ambitious and confident.