Lead Software Engineer

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

Lead Software Engineer

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
Mastercard's Employee Access Management program is responsible for providing end-to-end services to support both physical and digital access by internal employees to Mastercard systems and applications.

Role:
Responsible for delivering high-quality business and functional requirements (in the form of user stories) to the development teams for the purpose of completing the design, coding, testing, and implementation phases of the project life cycle
Works closely with architect guild, analysts, and technical leads from impacted teams to refine requirements for new functionality and enhancements for service platforms
Leveraging the results of the requirements and gap analysis, builds business cases which bridge gaps in system functionality vs. user requirements to maximize Certificate and Signing Services ability to deliver on our product roadmap.
Applies detailed understanding of Certificate signing and Privileged access management business needs and its impact to confirm requirement specifications for management purposes and develop IT solutions that meet key objectives
Participates in requirements gathering and review sessions for complex applications including functionality such as encryption and certificate management
Performs analysis of system requirements and works closely with the development teams to ensure proper designs are achieved
Provides technical analysis of application software to ensure that business and functional requirements can be met
Reviews test cases to ensure accuracy and complete coverage of the story's acceptance criteria
Provides technical support to client applications teams during implementations of new services and provides subject matter expertise for support escalations

All About You
Good experience on Java and related programming languages.
Excellent expertise on Linux
Ability to quickly learn technical product knowledge, especially security-related concepts
Expert in full stack development with a Strong Java background(Java, Springboot, Microservices), Expertise React and knowledge of Golang is preferred.
Understanding of the product development lifecycle, maturity, and road-mapping exercises.
Experience working on large-scale enterprise initiatives that include multiple impact teams across the enterprise.
Experience leveraging or developing solutions using Information Security-related concepts and Privileged access management.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey messages at different levels - detailed and high-level management
Ability to effectively drive resolution of issues and roadblocks
Highly motivated and proactive to ensure the success of the team and product
High degree of ownership to deliver expected objectives
Comprehensive experience in agile delivery methodologies (scrum, Kanban, etc.) and CI/CD
Deep understanding of the platform, the integration patterns, the organizational capabilities, and the company wide assets that can be leveraged to provide technical solutions to customer problems
Extensive experience in designing and implementing shared web service platforms including front end and backend capabilities.
Demonstrated ability to operate with complete independence and autonomy.
Expert knowledge with the Confluence, Splunk , Rally, Remedy and JIRA tools.
Hands on experience in code reviews and change management.

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.

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.

In 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 based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $138,000 - $221,000 USD