Solution Architect
Assystem
Switching
Software Engineering Manager
TASC
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Pune • 🇮🇳 India
Visit company websiteJob Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Switching
About the role
- The Transaction Switching program enables frictionless commerce through a secure, highly performant and operationally resilient platform supporting Credit, Debit, Prepaid and Commercial portfolios
- Responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions
- Define requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices
- Formally supervise and coach 2+ teams of engineers to build, enhance, and support multiple applications/services in delivery of Products, Platforms, or Product bundles
- Provide strategic thinking and leadership related to a wide range of applications and systems, or software-development methodologies
- Ensure objectives and development plans are established and reviewed continuously throughout the year
- Speak as one management voice and regularly hold staff meetings with all levels of staff to brief on organization, department, and P&C (HR) updates
- Hold people and teams accountable and effectively delegate responsibilities down to the team
- Recruit and hire the right talent and continuously engage and improve teams’ performance through recurring 1-1 meetings, career development, and risk management
- Provide and facilitate timely feedback, coaching in the moment, and mentoring for staff at all levels
- Manage and optimize budgets, forecasting, and cost allocation while delivering on business needs
- Emulate and drive Mastercard Way behaviour through recognitions, coaching, and employee engagement
- Drive secure coding, vulnerability management, high availability targets (e.g., 99.95%), and reduction of mean time to mitigate (MTTM) for incidents
- Simplify deployment, eliminate software/infrastructure snowflakes, and automate builds, tests, and deployments
- Define, organize, and report on test runs for major, minor, and hotfix releases (including unit, component, system, customer journeys, past issues, and regulatory controls)
Requirements
- IT experience with successful track record in managing small scale development organization (2+ teams) with demonstrated thought-leadership, cross-functional influence, and partnership
- Progressively grown career with proven design and development experiences in multiple languages, secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT), and vulnerability management
- Skills to document and coach team on the development practices and coding guidelines (e.g., branching, peer reviews, library use, logging, scanning rules, test-driven development, error handling)
- Understands and elaborates technical debt and operational issues to drive prioritization discussions with stakeholders
- Understands system architecture to plan for platform and infrastructure capacity (e.g., database, compute, network, storage)
- Skills to understand customer journeys and ensure a good customer experience by continuously reducing mean time to mitigate (MTTM) for incidents and ensuring high availability (99.95% as a starting point)
- Skills to simplify deployment and eliminate software and infrastructure snowflakes using standardized platforms, ephemeral instances, and automation
- Understands which tools and practices to choose for intelligently automating builds, tests, and deployments
- Skills to define, organize, and report on test runs for major, minor, and hotfix releases (including unit, component level, system level, customer journeys, past customer issues, and regulatory controls)
- Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology or related discipline preferred, or equivalent work experience
- Manage and optimize budgets, forecasting, and cost allocation while delivering on business needs
- Recruit and hire the right talent and conduct recurring 1-1 meetings, feedback, coaching, and mentoring
- Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices; ensure confidentiality and integrity of information; report suspected security violations; complete mandatory security trainings
ATS Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software developmentsecure codingvulnerability managementtest-driven developmentsystem architectureautomationcapacity planningincident managementbudget optimizationrequirements analysis
Soft skills
leadershipcoachingstrategic thinkingteam managementcommunicationdelegationperformance managementcross-functional influencestaff engagementthought leadership
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in software engineeringBachelor's degree in computer scienceBachelor's degree in information technology
