SSO00368 - Director, Data Engineering Job Listing at Mastercard in Pune, MH (Job ID R-260680)

Description

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

SSO00368 - Director, Data Engineering Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview
We are seeking a Technical Director, Data Engineering for defining and maintaining the data architecture and associated data maintenance, integration and load processes for the organization focused on our new cross product cloud technologies.

As a Technical Director, you will be responsible for team management, team leadership as well as hands on technical deliverables as part of a high performing technology organization.

Responsibilities
- Leads holistic data and platform evolution in our cloud environment through supporting multi product verticals, product feature implementation, CI/CD as well as building and maintaining a security posture which includes proactively identifying security risks and implementing both risk mitigation plans and control functions
- Provides consultation throughout Ethoca, ensuring infrastructure and database performance through advanced data modeling, query tuning, and indexing strategies
- Leads initiatives with internal customers across development verticals to drive project completion, overseeing several large initiatives around system and platform performance, providing project direction and technical advice
- Plans and implements process improvement efforts to identify and test opportunities for automation and/or reduction in time to deployment
- May perform financial planning, forecasting, and budget tracking to reduce total cost of ownership and allocate resources efficiently
- Provides corporate leadership, vision, and direction for data systems, ensuring support of company's objectives and requirements
- Build and lead a team of high performing technology resources to execute on product deliverables and platform responsibilities

Experiences
- Successfully led complex cross-functional domain initiatives, expected to set project direction and anticipate/resolve challenges and escalations
- Proven ability in setting priorities, objectives, and driving deliverables within data technology domains and sub-domains, understanding the financial and technological impact of these designs
- Experience participating in a major automation and/or cloud delivery effort, including supporting financial decision making
- Experience teaming with leaders in the technical community to derive new solutions and drive quality and consistency globally
- Experience identifying potential opportunities for automation optimization and/or reduction in time to deployment
- Acts as a trusted advisor for Ethoca's business and functions internally and at industry events
- Proficiency with cloud technologies (IaaS, PaaS, serverless technology, NoSQL databases), micro-service design, DevOps
- Degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field including programming
- Excellent SQL and higher-level programming language
- Strong analytical and excellent problem-solving skills
- Good understanding of 12-Factor App methodology
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages such as NodeJS, Java, Java Script, etc. are mandatory

Ideally you have experience in banking, e-commerce, credit cards or payment processing and exposure to both SaaS and premises-based architectures. In addition, you have a post-secondary degree in computer science, mathematics, or quantitative science.

Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

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.

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