Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

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

The Enterprise and Risk Compliance Technology team is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to lead and manage our Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) area by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the internal partners experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.

Role

In this role, you will:

• Partner with internal business partners in gathering, mapping business requirements, designing, providing technical guidance in delivering the solutions and the upgrades.
• Identify opportunities to improve user experience, solve problems and provide support to end users.
• Take responsibility for driving the maturation of the platform.
• Liaison between business partners and vendor professional services - ensuring the team is maturing to the next level at every instance.
• Should have the strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and deep understanding of best development standards.
• Be able to understand and demonstrate deep knowledge of GRC platforms.
• Provide guidance to the team ensuring the business deliverables are met on time.
• Engage with cross-functional teams for designing and delivering new solutions & integrations.
• Drive efficiencies by identifying areas for improvements - like automation and process improvements.
• Identify impediments upfront and provide solutions to mitigate the delivery risk.
• Strong communication skills and able to articulate complex scenarios to stakeholders.
• Able to work with teams across geographies building rapport and bonding.

All About You

Familiarity with integrating enterprise data into data lakes, ensuring scalable data ingestion, storage, and governance practices. Experience leveraging AI/ML models for predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and intelligent automation within enterprise systems. Proven experience in integrating complex systems and applications across cloud and on-premises environments, including APIs, middleware, and third-party platforms. Intermediate to advanced programming experience in HTML, XML, JSP, SQL, and JavaScript. Excellent oral and written communication skills – ability to engage with business & technical stakeholders and engineering senior leaders. Strong delivery experience working with teams of skilled developers and cross-functional teams, while identifying and removing impediments to ensure team success. Proven ability to identify improvement opportunities – both technical and process-oriented. Skilled in guiding senior software engineers in resolving complex technical problems.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come 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.