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

R&D Software Engineering Manager

Overview
Mastercard is looking for a talented Software Engineering Manager to join the Mastercard Foundry Research and Development (R&D) team in Tel Aviv. In this role you will be a leading a highly agile team building exiting and innovative products delivered at scale to global markets.

Our team is built on a foundation of research and development, mining innovation internally, innovating new product lines with emerging technology, managing new products from inception to market validation and engaging strategically with startups to shape the future of commerce with and for our customers. At Mastercard you will help define the future of commerce globally.

This team will have a diverse focus both in terms of geography and variety of technology challenges driving hard to bring innovative payment and cyber security solutions to market.

Role
- Manage a team of highly skilled engineers and deliver software development projects using agile methodologies
- Defines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices
- Research, design and document solutions that can scale globally
- Responsible for the project management, reporting and execution of software projects
- Lead and/or take part in external and internal events
- Strong passion for innovation and new technologies.

Responsibilities
- Formally supervises and coaches a large group/team, or several Leaders/ Consultants and is responsible for business execution of goals and objectives.
- Ensures own teams compliance to goal setting and performance appraisal process
- Helps identify and coach top talent within own teams (includes direct reports and second-line reports)
- Provides strategic leadership related to specific applications and systems, or software-development methodologies
- Creates and sustains an environment of ingenuity and creativity and challenges the status quo to encourage innovation
- Oversees the management of the Software Engineering function and acts as an authority on high-level and complex decisions within the function

Experiences
- IT experience with demonstrated thought-leadership and functional influence and partnership demonstrated by a successful track record of enabling business through these technical decisions.
- Considered a thought leader and expert in Software Engineering as with experience in related IT disciplines

All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should have:
- Loves creating innovative products and technology solutions in a collaborative fun environment
- Advanced knowledge and understanding of modern software engineering concepts and methodologies is required.
- Strong leadership and people management skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to quickly learn and implement new technologies, frameworks, and tools.
- Experience in product development and partnering with business teams to build the best solutions for our customers.
- Ability to support multiple concurrent activities and to interface with external / internal resources, working as a member of a geographically distributed project team.
- Strong communication skills -- both verbal and written.
- Strong relationship, collaboration skills and organizational skills
- Be skilled at explaining technical problems succinctly and clearly.

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.