Vice President Software Engineering RD

Job Title:

Vice President, Software Engineering R&D

Overview:

Overview

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 experience 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

• 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.

Experience

• 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 Dev Ops 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…