Principal Software Engineer Job Listing at Mastercard in Atlanta, GA (Job ID R-222387)

Description

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.

Title and Summary

Principal Software Engineer Job Overview:

Position with extensive understanding and knowledge of software operations with solid knowledge of required services. Provides management direction and recommends strategic directions based on established policy. Leads and manages staff and assures staffing, training and objective setting. Recommends policy changes and implementations. Interacts with developers and requestors to identify scope of project.

Major Accountabilities:
•Software requirements management.
•Project planning and control
•Ensure approved staffing levels are maintained, departmental and staff education, training and cross training needs are met.
•Ensure that staff has skills and behaviors to perform tasks fully through effective communication of goals, objectives, performance and as necessary improvement plans.
•Ensure development, review and implementation of policy changes based on approved recommendations with minimal customer or staff interruption.
•Review and approve the development or revision of operational processes and procedures. •Recommend annual cost center budget and ensure appropriate expenditures within that approved budget.
•Recommend strategic direction and policy changes.
•Advance operational and business concerns or issues relative to future business programs, projects, or enhancements that may affect consistent delivery of quality services.

Education:

Bachelor's Degree in related functional area or equivalent work experience with exposure to management theories and concepts.

Knowledge / Experience:
•Budget and financial management experience.
•8+ years experience with software solutions delivery
•Experience preparing & delivering executive level presentations to business and technology audiences.
•Experience mentoring and developing resources in a high performance culture.

Skills/ Abilities:
•Ability to translate highly complex technical matters into easily digestible and actionable plans. •Advanced knowledge of business or function.
•Requires the ability to lead and manage senior technical individual contributor and management staffs with the ability to foster open communications across various organizational levels. Requires skills to motivate direct and indirect reports to deliver superior results.
•Requires the skills to provide functional and directional guidance to staff and recommend policy or strategic direction changes to management.
•Requires the ability to interact across multiple organizational levels and assume a lead role and set direction for large or complex projects. Mastercard is an inclusive equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

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