Software Engineering Manager

Manager, Software Engineering

We are looking for a Manager – Software Engineering, to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.

This position will lead Agile Squad(s) comprising of a team of employees and contractors in their career growth. mentorship, and problem resolution. Team building skills will be essential to succeed in this role.

The Role

• Provide ongoing guidance to teams on professionalism, career growth, development standards, automation and tools and processes such as Agile, Lean, etc.
• Work with Product Management and Engineering to translate product use cases and requirements to industry-leading design, architecture, and implementations. Influence the product owner to balance the business and technical priorities and the value of the architecture work.
• Responsible for programming, unit testing, integration testing, documentation, maintenance and support of systems application software in adherence with Mastercard standards, processes and best practices.
• Execute and own the baseline architecture implementations and design activities collaborating with other Engineers & Engineering Team.
• Collaborate with business and technical partners to identify and scope the opportunities, outline potential value and ROI, identify risks, benefits and constraints.
• Work with project team to meet scheduled due dates, while identifying emerging issues and recommending solutions for problems and independently perform assigned tasks.
• Document software programs as per software development best practices. Follow Mastercard quality assurance and quality control processes, managing security best practices in product code, design, infrastructure and architecture.
• Support defect management, code versioning, and code deployments.
• Ensure test coverage for unit testing and support integration and performance testing.
• Perform feature / enhancement estimates, demonstrations and related activities.
• Support level 3 production problem management including root cause identification and resolution.
• Develop overall strategic technical plan and create architecture proposals based on identified solution gaps
• Regularly communicate with leadership about risk analysis and design trade-offs.
• Participate & contribute in Product kick off sessions & Requirement workshops for Direction and course correction w.R.T. domain based solutions, technology feasibility, competence requirements, resources requirements
• Participate in development and code review of key functionalities.

All About You

Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

o Spring Framework

o Microservices

o Test Driven Development TDD Methodology and Unit Testing using Junit / XCTest

o Use of mocking frameworks such as API Service Virtualization / Mockito

o Static Code Analysis using SonarQube

o Hands on with Jenkins / PCF or similar tools for automated provisioning of build and test infrastructure

o Troubleshooting with Splunk, API aids like Swagger / Postman and source control systems like Git

Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Experience :