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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.\nTitle and Summary\nManager, Software EngineeringJob Description SummaryJob Overview:\nProviding Innovative, Secure, and Reliable Switching Solutions is the lifeblood of Mastercard Core Products, we are currently seeking a passionate, collaborative, and experienced software engineering leader to join the Network Solutions team.\nAre you a collaborator capable of communicating effectively with Business and IT stakeholders across all organizational levels?\nAre you an innovator who embraces, adopts, and studies the latest technology to solve challenging business problems?\nAre you a leader who inspires the team to think “out of the box” and effectively communicates across all levels of the organization?\nIf this describes you, We want to talk to you about the creation of the new team in O’Fallon, MO that will support the Network Solutions charter.\nRole:\n- Formally supervises, coaches, and develops a work group/team\n- Complies with goal setting and performance appraisal process\n- Monitors objectives and drive performance of the team.\n- Provides strategic leadership related to specific applications and systems, or software-development methodologies\n- Ensure quality of one or more application codebases and alignment with development standards.\n- Applies technical capabilities within own discipline to coach and develop junior employees.\n- Researching and evaluating tools to support domain-specific needs. 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We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact  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.\nCorporate Security Responsibility\nAll 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:\nAbide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;\n\nEnsure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;\n\nReport any suspected information security violation or breach, and\n\nComplete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.\n\nIn 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 and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. 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