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Job Title

Senior Vice President Software Engineering, Commercial Solutions

Overview

Mastercardommercial Solutions organization develops and delivers a suite of platforms which facilitate and enhance commercial card payments. Commercial payments are payments that take place between one business and another business, a business and a government and a government and a business. This is one of the largest growing segments at Mastercard with astounding opportunities for our company in this space. As part of this organization, the Commercial Solutions team leads the development and delivery of highly available, multi-user products offered across Mastercardey customers and built with operational health and security engrained across all functions. As the SVP of this team, an individual must have a deep understanding of delivering customer facing platforms at scale, possess executive presence across influential stakeholders, and be a skilled leader to ensure the delivery of programs and services across cross functional teams. The position requires delivery of the technology roadmap aligned with business objectives, management of 200+ global resources and driving the required culture to sustain operational excellence with driving technology advances.

Role

• Deliver quality software releases across platforms and customer base with operational excellence and seamless customer experience baked into each design & implementation element.
• Ability to manage details, risks and timelines at a team / application micro level as well as pull back at a macro view across the larger platform & business level.
• Drive and deliver on the Commercial Platform technology roadmap aligning to business needs as well as the strategic direction of the Operations & Technology organization as a whole. Provide governance and communication on progress, budgets, and needed actions ensuring a common message across stakeholders.
• Establish fluid relationships and strong lines of communication across the numerous technology, product and account teams required to bring products to market and services them at scale
• This role is responsible for communicating with Executives across our internal lines of business and largest banks. This requires someone with executive presence and ability to display exemplary communication skills in conveying key strategic messages
• Obtain alignment from various stakeholders and exhibit leadership and ongoing thought leadership towards a common goal
• Be an integral part of the wider Commercial Solution Products team providing leadership, platform happenings and technology best practices that benefit the Commercial Products community
• Manage cross functional team, direction, priorities, optimizing where possible. This includes managing a direct staff of 200+ mixed resources across 5 global locations.
• Act as a lead driver for the required culture across the Commercial Solutions community. This will require communication of clear business goals, technology transformation and success factors in a way which resonates across roles and teams.

All About You

• Technical leader with experience building scalable and configurable platforms at leading technology or financial companies.
• Lead large technical organizations of 200+ across locations and contracts
• Has the executive presence to work with senior leaders within Mastercard and with our customers, the largest global banks in the world.
• Experience managing multiple functional areas within technology such as technical architecture, software development, system testing, and production support. Experience solving meaningful hard problems.
• Understands architecture, trade-offs and how to build platforms.
• Deep experience in everything automation , deployment, everything.
• Experience with software development methodologies, particularly with Agile methodologies. Also, experience in large scale agile development.
• Has great intuition for execution and seeing problems ahead of time.
• Experience building highly skilled technology teams and working with vendors.
• Experience in the payments domain desirable.
• Takes on ownership and accountability.
• Takes pride in the products she / he builds.
• Move with urgency. Be action oriented.
• Spends time developing his people. Servant leader.
• Empowers technologists to make decisions.
• Demands MORE of herself / himself and everyone else.
• Believes in continuous improvement and holds a very high bar.

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