Director, Software Engineering

Job Description

Position with extensive understanding and knowledge of software operations with solid knowledge of required services. Provides management direction and recommends strategic directions based on established policy. Leads and manages staff and assures staffing, training and objective setting. Recommends policy changes and implementations. Interacts with developers and requestors to identify scope of project. Role: Ensure approved staffing levels are maintained, departmental and staff education, training and cross training needs are met. Review and approve the development or revision of operational processes and procedures. Recommend strategic direction and policy changes. Formally supervise and coach 3+ teams of engineers to build, enhance, and support multiple applications/services in the delivery of internal or market-facing Products, Platforms, or Product bundles Work with business/product owners to develop and deliver on new services to introduce new products and bundles Work on complex enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple services/programs and drives resolution Ensure objectives and development plans are established at the start of the year and reviewed continuously throughout the year Recruit and hire the right talent, always bringing in high impact talent individuals Continuously engage and improve teams performance by conducting recurring 1-1 meetings, knowing your people, managing career development, and understanding who is at risk Provide and facilitate timely feedback, coaching in the moment, and mentoring for staff at all levels Emulate and drive Mastercard Way behaviors through their behavior, recognitions, coaching, and employee engagement Manage and optimize budgets, forecasting, and cost allocation while delivering on business needs in the area of ownership Provides strategic thinking and leadership related to a wide range of applications and systems, or software-development methodologies Benchmark and drive engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance in the areas of ownershipAbout You: Experience with software solutions delivery Experience preparing & delivering executive level presentations to business and technology audiences. Experience mentoring and developing resources in a high performance culture. Ability to translate highly complex technical matters into easily digestible and actionable plans. Requires the ability to lead and manage senior technical individual contributor and management staff with the ability to foster open communications across various organizational levels. Requires skills to motivate direct and indirect reports to deliver superior results. Requires the ability to interact across multiple organizational levels and assume a lead role and set direction for large or complex projects. IT experience with successful track record in managing medium scale development organization (3+ teams) with demonstrated thought-leadership, cross-functional influence, and partnership Progressively grown career with proven design and development experiences in multiple languages, secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT), and vulnerability management. Understanding of various Payments schemes and ecosystems, including Faster Payments schemes, and Payments messaging formats such as ISO 8583, ISO 20022, and SWIFT.. Experience with HP NonStop operating systems 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 and 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) Has experience in design and execution of automation across multiple business areas and provides guidance on best methods and tools. Has an expert understanding of DevOps best practices to guide developers and abstract application development from underlying hosting platforms and infrastructure 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 perform architecture and cost analysis for internal, hybrid, and public cloud environments Has skills to succinctly articulate architecture patterns of complex systems, with business and technical implications, to executive and customer stakeholders Has skills to define and drive advanced chaos and other operational testing practices to test points of failures, monitors, and system behaviors under adverse conditions (e.g., resource spikes, network congestion, component or infrastructure failure) Has skills to implement advanced test set ups in production environment (e.g., A/B testing, canary releases, blue-green deployment, feature flags), Position with extensive understanding and knowledge of software operations with solid knowledge of required services. Provides management direction and recommends strategic directions based on established policy. Leads and manages staff and assures staffing, training and objective setting. Recommends policy changes and implementations. Interacts with developers and requestors to identify scope of project. Role: Ensure approved staffing levels are maintained, departmental and staff education, training and cross training needs are met. Review and approve the development or revision of operational processes and procedures. Recommend strategic direction and policy changes. Formally supervise and coach 3+ teams of engineers to build, enhance, and support multiple applications/services in the delivery of internal or market-facing Products, Platforms, or Product bundles Work with business/product owners to develop and deliver on new services to introduce new products and bundles Work on complex enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple services/programs and drives resolution Ensure objectives and development plans are established at the start of the year and reviewed continuously throughout the year Recruit and hire the right talent, always bringing in high impact talent individuals Continuously engage and improve teams performance by conducting recurring 1-1 meetings, knowing your people, managing career development, and understanding who is at risk Provide and facilitate timely feedback, coaching in the moment, and mentoring for staff at all levels Emulate and drive Mastercard Way behaviors through their behavior, recognitions, coaching, and employee engagement Manage and optimize budgets, forecasting, and cost allocation while delivering on business needs in the area of ownership Provides strategic thinking and leadership related to a wide range of applications and systems, or software-development methodologies Benchmark and drive engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance in the areas of ownershipAbout You: Experience with software solutions delivery Experience preparing & delivering executive level presentations to business and technology audiences. Experience mentoring and developing resources in a high performance culture. Ability to translate highly complex technical matters into easily digestible and actionable plans. Requires the ability to lead and manage senior technical individual contributor and management staff with the ability to foster open communications across various organizational levels. Requires skills to motivate direct and indirect reports to deliver superior results. Requires the ability to interact across multiple organizational levels and assume a lead role and set direction for large or complex projects. IT experience with successful track record in managing medium scale development organization (3+ teams) with demonstrated thought-leadership, cross-functional influence, and partnership Progressively grown career with proven design and development experiences in multiple languages, secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT), and vulnerability management. Understanding of various Payments schemes and ecosystems, including Faster Payments schemes, and Payments messaging formats such as ISO 8583, ISO 20022, and SWIFT.. Experience with HP NonStop operating systems 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 and 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) Has experience in design and execution of automation across multiple business areas and provides guidance on best methods and tools. Has an expert understanding of DevOps best practices to guide developers and abstract application development from underlying hosting platforms and infrastructure 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 perform architecture and cost analysis for internal, hybrid, and public cloud environments Has skills to succinctly articulate architecture patterns of complex systems, with business and technical implications, to executive and customer stakeholders Has skills to define and drive advanced chaos and other operational testing practices to test points of failures, monitors, and system behaviors under adverse conditions (e.g., resource spikes, network congestion, component or infrastructure failure) Has skills to implement advanced test set ups in production environment (e.g., A/B testing, canary releases, blue-green deployment, feature flags),

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