Director IDE Automation

Our Purpose

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Title and Summary

Director IDE Automation

Overview

Infrastructure Design Engineering (IDE) are responsible for the end-to-end delivery of the infrastructure environments for the various programs at Mastercard. We pride ourselves in delivering scalable & reliable IT infrastructure, including compute, storage, and network.

This is an exciting opportunity to build and lead a team that's going to change the face of how we provision application infrastructure at Mastercard. As part of this team, we are looking to take our innovation to the next level and set up an IDE Automation team who will be solely dedicated to automating the delivery of the infrastructure services we provide.

The Role

As a Software Engineering Director, you will have the following responsibilities:

o Hands-on technical leader who brings strong experience in application development.

o Engage with Product and leadership team to understand the vision and help take that vision through design, development and delivery.

o Provide input into strategic technical decisions, leading with an agile mindset and pivoting as new information surfaces.

o Keep stakeholders informed of progress.

o Champion innovation and ensure engineering excellence is at the forefront of everything the team do.

o Consistently raise standards, with a strong focus on continuous improvement.

o Manage, and develop the careers of a small cross-functional engineering team.

o Continuously engage with the team by conducting recurring 1-1 meetings, providing guidance, timely feedback, and coaching.

o Drive goal setting and accountability practices for the team.

o Recruit and retain the brightest talent.

Skills

o Software development engineering experience with hands on knowledge of agile software development processes.

o Proven ability in building strong relationships and collaboration skills.

o Must be highly organised, detail-oriented and proactive.

o Strong technologist with proven track record of learning new technologies and frameworks.

o Experienced in identifying and implementing improvements to development processes.

o Have the ability to motivate and energize a team and the drive to create a best in class team culture.

o Skilled at communicating to all levels of the organization.

o Understanding of high availability applications, scalability, resiliency, performance, security & operational excellence.

o Ability to build and maintain high performing teams with servant leadership approach.

Exposure to any of the following an advantage

o Familiar with the languages (e.g., Java, Python, Golang, C#) and familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerability management

o Exposure to tools (e.g., Sonar, Zally, Checkmarx) and techniques to scan and measure code quality and anti-patterns as part of development activity

o Experience developing with databases (e.g. MongoDB, Postgres)

o Experience developing frontend solutions with Angular or React or other modern frameworks.

o Has skills to orchestrate release workflows and pipelines and apply standardized pipelines via APIs to achieve CI and CD using industry standard tools (e.g., Jenkins, XL Release, others).

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Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes 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 Mastercard's 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 Mastercard's guidelines.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.