Manager - Software Engineering (C, C++)

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 Manager - Software Engineering (C, C++) Job Posting Title Manager - Software Engineering (C, C++) Payment • Job Description Summary Job Description Summary The Transaction Switching program enables frictionless commerce through a secure, highly performant and operationally resilient platform that drives credit and debit transaction growth.  The program supports Credit, Debit, Prepaid and Commercial portfolios, through channels such as Automated Teller Machines (ATM), Point-of-Sale (POS), Electronic Commerce (E-Comm) and Digital products. As a software engineering manager at Mastercard, you will be responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions. You will also define requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices. All About You * Overall Career experience of 10-15 years into Software Engineering * Hands-on coding & programming skills in C & C++ * Experience in managing a team size of 3-5 members * IT experience with successful track record in managing small scale development organization (2+ teams) with demonstrated thought-leadership, cross-functional influence, and partnership * Progressively grown career with proven design and development experiences in multiple languages, secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT), and vulnerability management * Has skills to document and coach team on the development practices and coding guidelines (e.g., branching, peer reviews, library use, logging, scanning rules, test-driven development, error handling) * Understands and elaborates technical debt and operational issues to drive prioritization discussions with stakeholders to improve the run experience * Understands system architecture to plan for platform and infrastructure capacity (e.g., database, compute, network, storage) and drives the dependency prioritization to reduce the delivery lead time * Has skills to understand customer journeys and ensure a good customer experience by continuously reducing mean time to mitigate (MTTM) for incidents and ensuring high availability (99.95% as a starting point) * Has skills to simplify deployment and eliminate software and infrastructure snowflakes using standardized platforms, ephemeral instances, and automation * Understands which tools and practices to choose for intelligently automating builds, tests, and deployments where processes and applications are designed upfront with automation in mind * Has skills to define, organize, and report on test runs for major, minor, and hotfix releases (including unit, component level, system level, customer journeys, past customer issues, and regulatory controls) * Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology or related discipline preferred, or equivalent work experience Role As a Manager in Software Engineering at Mastercard, you are expected to carry out the following general duties: * Formally supervise and coach 2+ teams of engineers to build, enhance, and support multiple applications/services in the delivery of internal or market-facing Products, Platforms, or Product bundles * Provide strategic thinking and leadership related to a wide range of applications and systems, or software-development methodologies * Ensure objectives and development plans are established at the start of the year and reviewed continuously throughout the year * Speak as one management voice ... (truncated, view full listing at source)