Director, Software Engineering | Dublin, IE

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 Director, Software Engineering Who is Mastercard Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Overview: Mastercard is looking for a talented Principal Software Engineer to join the Mastercard Cross Border Services team in New York City, focused on building Cross Border Services (XBS) capabilities for financial services. This role will be pivotal for XBS in the cloud transformation journey. You will be part of a highly agile team building exciting and innovative products delivered at scale to global markets. The Role: Technology leader who is hands-on and can lead a team of engineers. Expected to spend a significant percentage of time coding and on code-related activities, while the remainder is spent coaching engineers on the team. This person is recognized as a team's authority and technical expert who drives innovation and organizational growth through their contributions.

1. Implement, monitor, and maintain compliance and security concerns in CI/CD pipelines to bring life to the principle of "Code is Design and Design is Code".
2. Utilize domain-driven design and enforce contextual mappings and aggregates for each bounded context.
3. Drive implementation of consumer-driven contracts to allow for evolution and learning of the domain model while meeting promises to other teams and customers.
4. Bring cutting-edge engineering practices to life in multiple evolving frameworks, such as feature flags and fitness functions.
5. Refactor code for better SDLC, performance, and availability.
6. Work on complex enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple services/programs and drive resolution.
7. Collaborate with business/product owners to architect and deliver new services and products.
8. Participate and contribute to the team's agile process and decisions.
9. Drive architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies.
10. Take ownership to improve the customer experience of services/applications.
11. Contribute and lead Guild initiatives by mentoring engineers at all levels.
12. Simplify and improve the cost/benefit of a function/service/architecture strategy.
13. Apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests.
14. Venture beyond comfort zone to take on assignments across different areas of Software Engineering.
15. Participate in Principal review architecture meetings and drive resolutions to enterprise-wide challenges.
16. Write recommendations for job promotions based on an unbiased view of accomplishments.
17. Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff.
18. Identify and raise awareness of siloed behaviors within the organization.

All About You and What You Need to Bring: Expert in building highly resilient and scalable distributed systems with deep exposure to various database, messaging, and caching technologies. Proven design and development experiences in multiple languages (e.g., Java, .NET, JavaScript, SQL), secure coding standards, and vulnerability management. Expert understanding of DevOps best practices, infrastructure as code, and cloud-first software development knowledge preferred. Corporate Security Responsibility All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come with an inherent risk to the organization. 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;
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

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