Manager, Software Engineering
Mastercard Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
IT Services and IT Consulting · 10,001+ employees
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About the role
The role involves managing a software engineering team while remaining hands-on with development, focusing on analysis, design, and delivery of solutions. You will be responsible for coaching team members, ensuring performance standards, and managing relationships with external IT vendors.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have strong experience in Java, Spring Boot, and Kubernetes, along with proven leadership and people management skills. Proficiency in SQL, unit testing frameworks, and experience across the full software development lifecycle are essential.
Full description
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
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
Overview
- Responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions
- Defines requirements for new applications and customization's, adhering to standards, processes and best practices
- Hands on Engineering Manager on Kubernetes, Java, Spring boot technologies. 80% coding and 20 managerial duties.
Responsibilities
- Formally supervises, coaches, and develops a work group/team
- Ensures own team(s) compliance to goal setting and performance appraisal process
- Coach and guide employees within own team(s)
- Provides strategic leadership related to specific applications and systems, or software-development methodologies
- Provides coaching and guidance to own Software Engineering teams
Experiences
- IT experience in all phases of the development lifecycle and in relationship building with business clients
- Experienced in engaging external IT vendors, including managing vendor selection and maintenance of vendor relations
Essential Knowledge/Experience
- Strong People management skills.
- Strong programming skills with deep knowledge of Java.
- Strong leadership skills.
- Good multi-tasking abilities.
- Knowledge of Spring and other frameworks.
- Good knowledge of unit testing and mocking frameworks like junit, mockito or easymock.
- Good knowledge of SQL and experience working with Oracle.
- Experience working with high performance applications.
- Good problem diagnostic and creative problem solving skills.
- Strong organizational skills; able to manage multiple tasks within the constraints and timelines determined by business needs.
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.
