Jobs at Mastercard

Our Purpose

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

Overview

• Mastercard is looking for a talented Director of Software Engineering to join the Mastercard Foundry Research and Development team in our Nairobi Office. In this role you will be part of a highly agile team building exciting 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 start-ups 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

• This role involves working with a team of talented developers to develop high performance Java based solutions.
• Responsible for the analysis, design, and development of software solutions
• Defines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes, and best practices
• Provides technical leadership to projects including architecting and creating a high-level design, working with other technical leaders to drive out the detailed design and implementation of highly complex applications, interfaces, and integrations
• Applies technical capabilities within own discipline to coach and develop junior employees
• Integrates at an enterprise level using third-party middleware or messaging products, or by designing and implementing custom interfaces and mapping for those interfaces
• Responsible for performance engineering of the enterprise software architecture, and providing functional guidance, advice, and/or training to other application developers
• Group-wide and external public speaking and other communications conveying domain level directions
• Researches and evaluates tools and acquisition opportunities to support cross-domain needs

Skills

• Proficiency with Java JDK 8 or greater.
• Knowledge of Tomcat, Spring, Spring Boot, Shell Scripting, JSON.

Experience With Docker, Kubernetes Or Other Container Orchestration Solutions.

• Expertise in Junit or other automated unit testing frameworks.
• Knowledge of CI/CD principles and tools such as Jenkins, Gradle, Maven.
• Knowledge of Source Control Management and working with code in a multi-developer
• Experience with a UI framework such as Angular a plus

All About You 

• The ideal candidate for this position should: 
• Love creating innovative solutions to problems in a collaborative fun environment
• Have advanced knowledge and understanding of modern software engineering concepts and methodologies
• Be passionate about software development and comfortable in a fluid environment
• Be passionate about code quality and coding best practices
• Show initiative and demonstrate a willingness to take on challenging opportunities
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and strong collaboration skills
• Must be driven, highly motivated and a strong team-player
• Interested in mentoring and helping grow the skills of the next generation of software developers

Responsibilities
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.

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WAYS YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE

• Developing procedures and strategies that support, create, maintain, and manage data quality processes & guidelines
• Support the roll out of the data governance framework, with a focus on improvement of data quality through established guidelines, policies and standards
• Identify data quality issues and work towards resolving them by thinking laterally, and identifying and implementing improved work practices
• Effective business partnering with stakeholders to understand business needs, translate into data analytics technical requirements for data quality issues remediation
• Working with IT, Finance, Programs, Impact, Knowledge Management, Enterprise Risk & Legal Teams, to facilitate the development and implementation of data quality standards
• Ensure data quality items are resolved to ensure reporting is complete, accurate and timely
• Implements data quality solutions that will enable self-service capabilities as appropriate for reporting and data-informed management tools while collaborating with Functions, setting reporting quality standards
• Recommend corrective action plans, remediation, and improvements in resolution of data quality issues with standards detected through profiling of processes and procedures. 
• Utilize business partnering insights to continuously Identify new data quality opportunities pertaining to the use of data to provide data as a public asset for additional insights in solving certain challenges across the continent
• Define & measure data quality metrics and work towards compliance with data quality related policies, standards, and adoption requirements
• Determine protocols and infrastructure necessary for data quality, data validation, storage, structure, retrieval, and utilization.
• Work with the Foundation’s data advisory team to support Data for Public Good initiative
• Collaborate with the enterprise IT team to incorporate the foundation’s data quality management policies into the planning, building, and running domains of enterprise IT, as well as conducting a monitoring role to assess adherence to the policies. 

WHO YOU ARE

• Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, MIS, Information Management, or any relevant field
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a professional services corporation or a large Development/Public Policy Organization, with exposure to data platforms and applications.
• Minimum of at least 3 years of experience with data quality management
• Experience: setting and evaluating data quality service levels; measuring and monitoring data quality; managing data quality issues.
• Knowledge of industry leading data quality practices
• Ability to synthesize and analyze diverse data and information, develop, and recommend strategies 
• Ability to think creatively, highly driven and self-motivated 
• Strong communication ability to interact with both business stakeholders and technical teams
• Possess excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate information to a variety of constituents across cultures
• Possess tested professional maturity, cultural sensitivity, and impeccable integrity
• A strong commitment to Mastercard Foundation’s values and vision