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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.\nTitle and Summary\nManager Software EngineeringOverviewThe Mastercard Business Intelligence Application Development Team builds innovative solutions that position Mastercard as a leader in delivering advanced analytics and reporting capabilities to a global customer base. We collaborate closely with product partners and technical teams to enhance existing products and launch new solutions worldwide.\nWe are seeking a highly skilled engineering leader who will:\nDrive architecture, design, and technical strategy for new development initiatives, production support, and platform modernization while ensuring consistent delivery quality across internal teams and vendor partners.\nProvide detailed cost and effort estimates, define technical scope and requirements, and partner with project managers and stakeholders to effectively manage scope throughout the project lifecycle.\nLead, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, continuous learning, and operational excellence.\nBuild strong partnerships across Product, Engineering, Quality, and Business teams to align technology execution with business objectives and strategic priorities.\nRole\nAs part of Mastercard’s Payment Performance Intelligence 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requirements.\nWrite and review high-quality, maintainable code while establishing engineering best practices and development standards.\nEstablish and promote effective unit, functional, and integration testing practices to validate software quality and system behavior throughout the development lifecycle.\nGuide performance engineering efforts to identify bottlenecks and optimize applications for performance, scalability, and reliability.\nEnsure platform designs support high availability, resilience, and near zero-downtime production operations.\nCollaborate with business partners, product owners, and stakeholders to define product strategy, roadmaps, business cases, and delivery priorities.\nPartner with Quality Engineering, Product Management, Infrastructure, and Security teams to ensure successful end-to-end product delivery.\nDrive operational excellence through proactive monitoring, automation, incident management, systemic troubleshooting and continuous improvement initiatives.\nLead capacity planning, resource management, and technical decision-making across multiple concurrent initiatives.\nChampion innovation by evaluating emerging technologies, modern engineering practices, and automation opportunities.\nFoster an inclusive and high-performance environment built on accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement.\nAll About You\nEducation\nBachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.\nLeadership & Communication\nProven experience leading and managing software engineering teams in an agile environment.\nStrong coaching, mentoring, and talent development skills with a demonstrated ability to grow engineering talent.\nExperience managing cross-functional stakeholders and driving alignment across business and technology organizations.\nExcellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence decisions at multiple organizational levels.\nStrong ownership mindset with the ability to lead through ambiguity and manage competing priorities effectively.\nTechnical Expertise\nStrong expertise in Java 17+, Spring ecosystem, Hibernate, and enterprise application design.\nProven experience building and leading applications based on microservices architecture.\nStrong experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and messaging frameworks such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS, or cloud-native messaging solutions.\nHands-on experience with React JS (16+) or Angular (14+) frontend development.\nExperience designing and developing APIs using OpenAPI specifications.\nStrong knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, Node.js, UNIX shell scripting, Python, and Groovy scripting.\nExperience with enterprise databases including Oracle, SQL Server, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch.\nStrong understanding of data structures and their application in designing efficient, scalable software solutions\nTools & Methodologies\nBuild and dependency management using Gradle and Maven.\nExperience with infrastructure and configuration automation tools such as Chef and Ansible.\nStrong CI/CD experience using Jenkins, SonarQube, and automated quality gates.\nProven experience working in Agile, Scrum, and DevOps environments.\nCloud & Infrastructure\nHands-on experience with public cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, or GCP.\nStrong understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.\nExperience with observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk, ELK Stack, Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent solutions.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience working with multiple programming languages such as Scala, C#, Python, or similar technologies.\nFamiliarity with workflow orchestration and automation platforms such as Netflix Conductor, Apache Airflow, Camunda, or N8N.\nExperience implementing observability solutions using OpenTelemetry.\nFamiliarity with rules engines such as Drools or EasyRules.\nExperience managing globally distributed teams and vendor partnerships is a strong plus.\nSoft Skills\nStrong analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.\nHigh-energy, detail-oriented, proactive, and results-driven approach.\nAbility to operate effectively in a fast-paced, complex, and highly collaborative environment.\nExcellent interpersonal, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills.\n• Passion for engineering excellence, innovation, and talent development.Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 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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