Lead Software Engineer - Business Rule Author

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

Lead Software Engineer - Business Rule Author

Overview
The Business Rules Engineering & Strategy team is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to drive forth our mission of building robust IBM ODM Rule solutions that provide transaction level decisioning, alerting and notifications. Business Rules embed intelligence into the transactional cycle by leveraging scoring models, cohesive rule strategies and behavioral data, and when combined with our agile rule development & deployment capabilities, results in a competitive advantage for all stakeholders, in the entire payment ecosystem.
Role
• Provide technical leadership, rule strategy design and product requirement elaboration expertise for fraud prediction applications, which include mission critical, high volume transaction processing systems.
• Oversee all changes and analyze new development requests; provide feedback on capabilities and effectiveness of rule based solutions to all stakeholders.
• Own all aspects of communication as rule development cycle unfolds; develop reports and authoritive responses pertaining to your products & technical solutions.
• Ownership, creation and maintenance of all product documentation, and relevant "How To" technical process pages.
• Accountability, ownership and representation of your products and solutions in all faccets of engagement with other groups.

All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should:
• Have a bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• Have IBM Operational Decision Manager software experience
• Have current experience in delivering technical solutions and capabilities to meet business and product strategies, including a focused relationship with technical and business providers. Financial Services or Payments experience a plus.
• Direct experience with the development of custom software applications and services across a variety of technology selections and frameworks.
• Experience with software engineering concepts and methodologies, including agile lifecycles, testing automation, and behavior-driven development.
• Strong background in object-oriented architecture, design, and development. Direct Java experience preferred. Experience with multiple OO languages and SQL a plus.
• High-energy and detail-oriented, with the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment with a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results; good at organizing and planning for several concurrent initiatives with conflicting needs.
• Interested in building solutions that help recognize and prevent payment fraud?
• Strong sense of curiosity, analytical problem solving and is passionate about the customer experience journey
• Flexible work style with the ability to quickly pivot to new priorities

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.