Vice President-Software Engineering Job in Pune at Mastercard

Mastercard is hiring for the role of Vice President, Software Engineering!

Responsibilities of the candidate:

• Develop and implement the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the data platform to support business objectives.
• Lead and mentor a high-performing team of full stack engineers, application architects, data engineers, data architects, and data scientists.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to align data initiatives with overall company strategy.
• Oversee the architecture, design, and development of scalable solutions.
• Ensure data integrity, security, scalability, efficiency and availability across the platform.
• Drive the adoption of best engineering and operational practices, including data warehousing, and data governance.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation.
• Evaluate and integrate new tools and technologies to enhance the platform’s capabilities.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence.
• Oversee the day-to-day operations of the platform, ensuring high performance and reliability.
• Develop and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to track the effectiveness of data driven initiatives.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product, analytics, and business units, to understand data needs and deliver solutions.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders effectively.
• Promote data-driven decision-making across the organization.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree
• You have a solid foundation in Computer Science fundamentals
• You have demonstrated strong customer focus
• You have demonstrated excellent leadership and management capability for large engineering organization with globally distributed teams
• You have experience building applications using Java, Python, Scala etc. and deploying/managing them in a cloud environment
• You have experience using storage technologies such as PostgreSQL or Oracle and delivering solutions that leverage them at a massive scale
• You have exposure to automated testing and releasing software in a continuous delivery model using Git
• You have strong expertise in big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Kafka).
• You have proficiency in data warehousing solutions (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery).
• You are passionate about the art of delivering the highest quality software to customers
• You have familiarity with machine learning and AI technologies.
• You enjoy working in an Agile team focused on continuous improvement and iterative deliveries
• You have a strong desire to learn best practices and modern software architecture and collaborate within a team
• You have excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical people