Lead Software Engineer (Technical Lead / Development Lead)

Job Description

Our PurposeMastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200 countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, were 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 SummaryLead Software Engineer (Technical Lead / Development Lead)Leads software engineering projects and creates the development and delivery of enhanced software solutions. Researches alternative technical solutions for changing business needs. Responsible for assuring the daily activities of the team meet the requirements of SLAs.Major Accountabilities:

• Successfully lead major projects and complex assignments with broad scope and long-term business implications.
• Create solutions with high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, high quality and faster time to market. Lead day to day system development and maintenance activities of the team to meet service level agreements (SLAs).
• Collaborate with business and technical partners to identify and scope the opportunities, outline potential value and ROI, identify risks, benefits, and constraints.
• Contribute to the overall strategy and manage complex issues within the functional area of expertise.
• 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.
• Create solution definition and solution architecture. Assist Management in Business Case Development and Scenario Planning leading to an effective decision-making process.
• Make presentations to the Management, Business Owners, and other Stakeholders.
• Assist in examining commercially available and forthcoming industry technologies related to area of expertise.
• Research on current and upcoming technologies and application appropriate frameworks and provide recommendations to Management. Perform PoCs (Proof of Concept) and help Department in the selection of Technology. Proactively create and maintain solution and technology road maps.
• Partner with Project Managers in implementation of processes per the evolving needs of the team and the solutions.
• Create detailed cost and time estimates for implementing business solutions, define technical scope and requirements of the project and assist project manager with managing scope during the lifecycle of the project.
• Identify Quality methodology and define Quality Metrics for the Team. Define and Lead Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes in the department. Assist in vendor selection and RFI/RFP process.
• Lead Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes in the department. 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.
• Co-ordinate offshore development and manage day-to-day activities. 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.
• Lead and guide team through all phases of the SDLC of an application. Successfully lead production incident and problem management, identification of root cause and remediation of the problems. Mentor, coach, and assist project team members.
• Provide Brownbag sessions on new and upcoming technologies, methodologies, and frameworks. Provide technical training to the team. Assist with selection of technical resources for the projects.
• 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 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.

All About You:

• Proven experience as a technical lead, building world-class solutions on a global scale.
• Experience in a related field, experience in delivering secure, maintainable, scalable, and complex application solutions.
• Full Stack developer with strong Java development/architecture experience.
• Experience documenting detailed designs with class and sequence diagrams.
• Expert in web technologies such as Spring, JavaScript, JQuery, AngularJS, CSS, cross-browser compatibility, GWT & HTML.
• Experience with responsive design, working with RESTful APIs and JSON.
• Ability to debug server-side API calls, and contribute to the design of best-practice RESTful APIs.
• Advanced knowledge of Linux/Unix and security standards.
• Knowledge/experience using cloud-native development such as PCF, AWS, etc.
• Experience with Java performance testing and benchmarking.
• Experience in Database Design, Oracle Databases, strong knowledge of PL/SQL.
• Working Knowledge of tools like Sonar, Dynatrace, GIT, ALM, CI (Jenkins)/CD, Splunk.
• Understanding of Web/Application servers like Websphere 8, Apache Tomcat.
• Ability to be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive, and able to function under pressure in an independent environment along with a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results.
• Strong communication skills -- both verbal and written and strong relationship, collaboration skills and organizational skills.
• Ability to quickly learn and implement new technologies, frameworks, and tools and support multiple concurrent activities and to interface with external/internal resources.
• Experience using the Agile Methodology.
• Ability to deal with pressure situations without compromising the processes.
• Result-oriented, self-driven, and go-getter abilities.

Corporate Security ResponsibilityAll activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come 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 Mastercards 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 Mastercards guidelines.

Apply NowLocation: Dublin 18, Ireland

Keyskills :
full stack development java architecture restful apis quality assurance agile methodology css gwt spring system development software engineering html pl/sql oracle javascript web technologies angularjs unix websphere jquery apache tomca