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Our Purpose

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 (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) 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.

Title and Summary

Director, Software Engineering

Job Title

Director, Software Development Engineering (Commercial Solutions)

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview

The Mastercard Commercial Solutions team in Dublin have an exciting opportunity for a Director of Software Development to help further grow our organization by establishing key new teams to enhance and modernize our Commercial business-to-business (B2B) digital payments services. This position will be key to growing a global B2B technology platform, operating at-scale, requiring focus on performance, security, and reliability.

• Do you want to positively influence the experience of over 50,000 customers?

• Do you like to get involved in the creation and execution of strategic initiatives centred around digital payments?

• Do you look forward to developing and engaging with high performant diverse teams around the globe?

• Do you like to own and be accountable for highly visible strategically important teams?

Role:

• Lead a team of Architects and Technical Managers managing multiple delivery technology teams.

• Interact with technical leaders, product, and operations partners to define strategic platform and product direction.

• Drive positive change within systems/process to optimally deliver on commitments

• Drive your team’s growth, capability and performance through coaching, mentoring, performance feedback and career development

• Track and communicate status/progress to customers and senior management

All About You:

• You are a champion of engineering and operational excellence: developing organisational metrics and driving culture of continuous improvement across teams.

• You have a strong desire to collaborate and provide mentorship to technology teams.

• You enjoy working with business and product leaders to inform and support options for delivering highly capable solutions that meet market demands.

• You have excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical people and have experience preparing & delivering executive level presentations to business and technology audiences.

• You are a relentless self-starter who works quickly and efficiently to support product and technical objectives.

• You can navigate a complex global organization.

• You have experience in development of distributed/scalable systems and high-volume transaction applications.

• You can drive architectural change, balancing technical and business priorities

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.