Description:
We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
The Treasury Services/Settlement Program provides vital systems and services to the Mastercard Treasury and Finance team in support of global payments/customer funds movement, treasury operations, liquidity, foreign exchange, risk management and capital management. We are directly responsible for moving billions of dollars in domestic and cross border currencies across the world each day between our customers. We are an agile development organization with teams distributed globally across technology hubs in US, India, and Ireland.
The Vice President- Software Development Engineering supporting Treasury Technology Solutions provides senior leadership to Mastercard global development teams focusing on development of applications in support of Treasury Services. This role hires and develops a high-performance software development organization as well assumes the responsibility for designing, developing, and supporting specific components for MasterCard’s Customer Funds Movement, Currency & FX Rate Management and Customer Risk applications.
Role:
- End to End technical leader who brings considerable experience designing and implementing solutions supporting treasury functions using a broad range of technologies with specific emphasis on funds movement solutions.
- Provides strategic thinking and leadership related to a wide range of applications and systems, or software-development methodologies
- Collaborates with business/product owners to develop and deliver on new services to address market, customer, and product needs.
- Ensures effective collaboration, communication, and socialization to drive the creation and implementation of a comprehensive strategy and road map.
- Oversees the management of the Software Engineering function and acts as the highest authority on high-level and complex decisions within the function
- Benchmark and drive engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance in the areas of ownership
- 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
- Sets the vision for an environment of ingenuity and creativity and acts as a role model for others in challenging the status quo to encourage innovation
- Lead & manage multiple work streams across functional & geographic divisions within Mastercard
- Updates Senior and Executive Management on status of high visibility initiatives
About You:
- Passion for bringing solutions to market, strong IT experience with successful track record in managing medium-to-large scale development organization with demonstrated thought-leadership, cross-functional influence, and partnership
- Balanced decision-maker who leverages data, insights, and competitive analysis to prioritize key strategies needed to scale funds movement solutions for futuristic needs such as distributed ledger technology.
- Trusted partner with internal and external stakeholders - providing consultative technical and business leadership.
- Understanding of various Payments schemes and ecosystems, including Faster Payments schemes, and Payments messaging formats such as ISO 8583, ISO 20022, and SWIFT etc.
- Hands-on experience in designing solutions and full stack development in modern technologies for large enterprise technology platforms and systems.
- Hands-on experience in coding Microservices in Java, building UI/UX, frameworks such as React, Angular, spring boot) and event driven architecture.
- Experience in deploying applications using CI/CD pipelines, docker containers & Kubernetes to Cloud platforms. Prior experience in AWS/Azure is a plus.
- Knowledge of performance engineering, tuning and building technology products for scale, a plus
- Develop leaders within the team – empowered to operate autonomously with support when needed.
- Operate with urgency, fairness and decency to address challenges and solve for new opportunities.
- Capable of working under pressure – navigating complex initiatives, competing priorities and customer requirements.
- Strong communicator to maintain internal and external alignment.
- Familiar with cutting edge industry trends and thorough understanding of development methodologies and standards,
- Ability to manage objectives and pipelines, build business cases, define success metrics and interpret P&L to optimize the business.