Vice President, Software Engineering R&D Job Listing at Mastercard in O'Fallon, MO (Job ID R-241563)

Description

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're 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 Summary

Vice President, Software Engineering R&D Mastercard is looking for a talented Vice President, Software Engineering to join the Mastercard Foundry Research and Development (R&D) team in our St Louis Tech Hub. In this role you will be a leading a highly agile organization of experienced engineers and architects in the analysis, design, development, and delivery of complex software solutions.

Our team is built on a foundation of research and development, mining innovation internally, innovating new product lines with emerging technology, managing new products from inception to market validation and engaging strategically with startups to shape the future of commerce with and for our customers. At Mastercard you will help define the future of commerce globally.

This team will have a diverse focus both in terms of geography and variety of technology challenges, driving hard to bring innovative payment solutions to market.

Role Overview:
• Oversee the management of the Software Engineering function and acts as the highest authority on high-level and complex decisions within the function.
• 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 someone better than at least half the individuals in the role.
• Continuously engage and improve teams' performance by conducting recurring 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.
• Provide strategic thinking and leadership on a wide range of application types, architectures, or software-development methodologies.
• Benchmark and drive engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance in the areas of ownership
• Strong passion for innovation and new technologies.

All About You:
• Considered a thought leader and expert in Software Engineering.
• IT experience with successful track record in managing medium-to-large scale development organization with demonstrated thought-leadership, cross-functional influence, and partnership.
• Has skills to develop and evangelize on reference architecture and run principles to help teams adopt Engineering standards.
• 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 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 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.

The ideal candidate for this position should have:
• Passion for creating innovative products and technology solutions in a collaborative fun environment
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of modern software engineering concepts and methodologies is required.
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to quickly learn and implement new technologies, frameworks, and tools.
• Experience in product development and partnering with business teams to build the best solutions for our customers.
• Ability to support multiple concurrent activities and to interface with external / internal resources, working as a member of a geographically distributed project team.
• Strong communication skills -- both verbal and written.
• Strong relationship, collaboration skills and organizational skills
• Be skilled at explaining technical problems succinctly and clearly.

Location Requirement: This is a hybrid position based in Mastercard's O'Fallon, Missouri location.

#AI

#LI-TE1 Mastercard is an inclusive equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $200,000 - $320,000 USD

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