VP Software Engineering

Transfer Solutions is responsible for driving Mastercard s expansion into new payment flows such as Disbursements Remittances. The team is working on creating a market-leading money transfer proposition, Mastercard Move, to power the next generation of payments between people and businesses, whether money is moving domestically or across borders, by delivering the ability to pay and get paid with choice, transparency, and flexibility.

The Product Engineering teams within Transfer Solutions are responsible for designing, developing, launching, and maintaining products and services designed to capture these flows from a wide range of customer segments. By addressing customer pain points for domestic and cross-border transfers, the goal is to scale Mastercard s Disbursements Remittances business, trebling volume over the next 4 years.

If you would like to be part of a global, cross-functional team delivering a highly visible, strategically important initiative in an agile way, this role will be attractive to you.
Do you like to be part of a team that is creating and executing strategic initiatives centered around digital payments
Do you look forward to developing and engaging with high performant diverse teams around the globe
Would you like to be part of a highly visible, strategically important global engineering organization

The Role:

At least 50% individual contributor with technical team leadership who is recognized as a departmental authority and technical expert within a discipline and drives innovation and organizational growth through their contributions. Spend their time in IDEs writing non-feature code; are hands all the time and collaborate by writing interfaces, tests (unit or acceptance) and architecture fitness functions, outside of meeting rooms.
Technical team leadership, departmental authority, and technical expert in payments domain who drives innovation and organizational growth through their contributions.
Develop and coach team members to excel on engineering endeavors by fostering an environment that encourages continuous learning and growth.
Domain driven design is your game. Drive implementation of consumer driven contracts to allow for evolution and learning of the domain model with hyper speed while meeting our promises to other teams internally and customers alike.
Participate and contribute to Architecture Design Reviews (ADRs) and drive resolutions to enterprise-wide challenges spanning multiple services/programs.
Polyglot engineering gurus. Bring cutting edge engineering practices to life in multiple evolving frameworks - Feature flags, fitness functions and whatever is required to reduce the cost and increase the lifecycle value of next feature delivered by engineering teams.
Participate and contribute to team s agile process and decisions. Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners.
Work with product owners to architect and deliver on new services to introduce new products and bundles.
Simplify and improve the cost/benefit of a function/service/architecture strategy
Apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests
Venture beyond comfort zone to take on assignments across different areas of Software Engineering
Take on organization-wide and public speaking engagements and publishes white papers and blogs on relevant and emerging technical topics
Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar

All About You and What you need to bring:
Minimum 15+ years of progressive experience in the software engineering discipline, starting as a software engineer and progressing through the ranks to a leadership position. Payment s domain, with focus on Cross Border Payments, experience is preferred
Product engineering experience that demonstrates thought-leadership and cross-functional influence demonstrated by a successful track record of enabling business through engineering excellence and technical innovation.
Deep programming background in Java distributed system architectures (databases, message brokers, cache, cloud-native microservices etc.)
Progressively grown career with proven design and development experiences in multiple languages, secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT), and vulnerability management.
Expert understanding and experience of DevOps best practices to guide developers and abstract application development from underlying hosting platforms and infrastructure. Experience in Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization.
Experience in the skills required to implement advanced test set ups in production environment (e.g., A/B testing, canary releases, blue-green deployment, feature flags)
Experience in leading the initiation and formation of large global projects including architecting, estimating, planning, implementing, and operating as well as selecting talent resources across multiple geographies and functions.
Has skills to develop and evangelize on reference architecture and run principles to help teams adopt Engineering Principles from the start (poison pill, active/active/active, auto-scaling, self-healing, others)
Understands use cases for advanced design patterns (e.g., service-to-worker, MVC, API gateway, intercepting filter, dependency injection, lazy loading, all from gang of four) to implement efficient code
Understands and implements Application Programming Interface (API) standards and cataloging to drive API/service adoption and commercialization
Has skills to promote and coach teams on take on full stack development and facilitate end-to-end service ownership
Has skills to engage engineers across technology organization to promote standard software patterns and reuse of common libraries and services
Has experience in leading and coaching teams to perform software planning and estimation for large scale complex programs
Has skills to drive trade-off discussions to set right development capacity based on value drivers (e.g., regulatory, security, new business, market parity, technical debt)
Performance engineering experience to ensure applications are built to scale, run, and perform for varying demands
Has skills to evaluate practices, metrics, and roles to continually optimize SDLC methodologies and automate processes to improve lead time and quality
Has skills to succinctly articulate architecture patterns of complex systems, with business and technical implications, to executive and customer stakeholders