Director Blockchain Engineering Full Time

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Job Title

Director Blockchain Engineering

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.

Overview

Mastercard is looking for a talented Software Engineering Director to join the Mastercard Blockchain and Digital Asset Engineering team. In this role you will be a leading a highly agile team building exiting and innovative products delivered at scale to global markets.

Our team is built on a foundation of research and development, mining innovation internally, innovating new product lines with emerging technology, managing new products from inception to market validation and engaging strategically with startups to shape the future of commerce with and for our customers. At Mastercard you will help define the future of commerce globally.

This team will have a diverse focus both in terms of geography and variety of technology challenges driving hard to bring innovative payment solutions to market.

Role & Responsibilities

• Manage a team of highly skilled engineers and deliver software development projects using agile methodologies
• Defines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices
• Research, design and document solutions that can scale globally
• Responsible for the architecture, design, project management, reporting and execution of software projects within the Blockchain & Digital Asset Engineering team
• Lead and/or take part in external and internal events
• Strong passion for innovation and new technologies.

Responsibilities will be wide-ranging for the right individual, providing the opportunity to make real global impact for the company & business. 4 broad area of responsibilities:

Consulting

• Driving the overall solution definition, documentation & securing approval by partnering with product team and our customers
• Working with Blockchain leadership team, & the blockchain development team, lead specific use case development
• Partner with internal & external product team creating solutions. Knowledge of Supply Chain domain is preferred

Delivery & Management

• Partnering with customer and product team to define the requirement and implementation of the same using Agile Development methodology
• Responsible for working with customers & internal stakeholders in executing the delivery that includes development, E2E testing with customers, helping customers understand the blockchain principles, design, certification of the solution and deployment
• Formally supervises and coaches a large group/team, or several Leaders/ Consultants and is responsible for business execution of goals and objectives.
• Ensures own teams compliance to goal setting and performance appraisal process
• Helps identify and coach top talent within own teams (includes direct reports and second-line reports)
• Provides strategic leadership related to specific applications and systems, or software-development methodologies
• Oversees the management of the Software Engineering function and acts as an authority on high-level and complex decisions within the function

Technology Architecture

• Lead the architecture, design and development of software systems and applications in collaboration with product team, customer and internal partners. These solutions & software targeted towards a clients’ specific needs or create products geared for Mastercard.
• Act as high-level decision makers in the process, determining everything from design choices to technical standards, such as platforms and coding standards.
• Engage with external customers representing engineering with product, Evaluate build vs buy solutions, partners with fintechs creating innovative solution
• Helps document the overall systems/application architecture, guide high & low level design

Technical Thought leadership

• Thought leader in the blockchain space driving innovation for the given use case & technology
• Leading new PoC to validate tech feasibility, acting as thought leader/architect/developer
• Creates and sustains an environment of ingenuity and creativity and challenges the status quo to encourage innovation

All About You

The ideal candidate for this position should have:

• Loves creating innovative products and technology solutions in a collaborative fun environment
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of modern software engineering concepts and methodologies is required.
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to quickly learn and implement new technologies, frameworks, and tools.
• Experience in product development and partnering with business teams to build the best solutions for our customers.
• Ability to support multiple concurrent activities and to interface with external / internal resources, working as a member of a geographically distributed project team.
• Strong communication skills — both verbal and written.
• Strong relationship, collaboration skills and organizational skills
• Be skilled at explaining technical problems succinctly and clearly.
• To be successful in the role, the individual would have a good balance of being a technologist (engineer risen through the ranks), technical management consulting experience (engaging with customer, product management, technology management & engg staff) and have managed a team of high performing software engineering team. Experience with latest tech stack is required, primarily Java and cloud based technology.
• Technical Skills Must have – Java and Spring (preferably Spring Boot, Spring Cloud), relational database & no-SQL etc. e.g(MySQL, Postgres, Hadoop, Elastic etc), experience implementing APIs and SDKs, Cloud based technologies. Experience in designing multi-layer architecture that are scalable and services oriented. Hands on coding experience and technical solution & architecture experience is must have
• Technical Skills- Knowhow & preferred – Knowledge of security protocols and encryption, Blockchain concepts and working experience on blockchain technology (R3, Enterprise Etherium, HyperLedger etc), knowledge of various consensus algorithm like Proof of Work, Proof of Stake, Proof of Audit, IBFT etc.
• Functional/Domain Experience – Experience in building technology solutions for developed and emerging markets, experience in a start-up and corporate environment, experience in building and leading successful agile technology teams, experience in building enterprise class transactional systems.
• Education Level – Bachelor’s Degree in related functional area or equivalent work experience with exposure to management theories and concepts.
• Other Experience – Budget and financial management experience.

COVID-19 Considerations

We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we’re all in this together. In many locations, which may change over time, we’ve implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by video or phone. In addition, in some locations, only individuals who have been fully vaccinated will be permitted inside Mastercard offices until further notice.

In the US, Mastercard is a government contractor, which may legally require most Mastercard employees to be vaccinated unless a verified approved medical or religious exemption is granted.  Further, we are currently making every effort towards having employees return to work in the office 2 days per week, if that makes sense for their team.  Everyone must be vaccinated to enter Mastercard offices at this time.  Therefore, we expect all candidates to be vaccinated or to be approved for a medical or religious accommodation prior to commencing work at Mastercard.

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.