Lead Software Engineer

• This position is on the Employee Identity and Access team, which is responsible for production readiness and response to customer impacting incidents for the Identity Access Management systems.
• This position will involve acting as lead of the application support team that maintains the Hashicorp application and other privileged access management technologies.
• Shift left to be more proactive and upfront in the development process
• This position will include being involved in design of project requirements to identify any potential impact to the department and prepare recommendations detailing those efforts.
• This will include being involved in the change management processes working with the technical engineers to ensure updates of security patches for products, appliances, and platforms under our responsibility
• Be able to think strategically two steps forward on what is next focus area for the team
• Be able to communicate well, written and verbal, and to work with the technical engineers to ensure that business requirements are being implemented as designed
• What interests you about Corporate Security?
• Give an example of when you have thought outside of the box to solve a problem?
• What experience do you bring to the table that will drive this team to the next level?
Role

• Proactive manages production and change activities to maximize customer experience, and increase the overall value of supported applications
• Provide business support security applications for identity, authorization, and policy management in a multi-tiered infrastructure
• Streamlining and standardizing traditional application specific support activities
• Develops plans to improve quality for each project that impacts the platform and leads implementation
• Reviews and signs off platform procedures are well documented from a business perspective
• Demonstrate strong knowledge across a broad range of identity and access management technologies
• Challenge the status quo processes and identifies way to automate through implementation
• Participate, as part of a global team, to transition any open items to global team members
• Helps to innovate on new methodologies to align with security best practices and Business Operations
• Partners with other peers in the Identity Access Management organization to ensure governance processes are in place, enabling access to the business with least privileges
• Researches new methodologies to improve security within the identity access management space
All About You
• Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, and proactive
• Must have the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment
• Must provide the necessary skills to have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results
• Intermediate to strong skills in Information Security
• Intermediate skills in software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes using Agile methodology
• Expert skills in change management processes
• Excellent strategic thoughtful risk taking experience
• Excellent written and verbal documentation, strong technical writing skills using Confluence, Microsoft Office pack or other like tools
• Advanced scripting language experience such as Python required

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.