• Discussing high and low level technical, and business requirements with clients • Facilitating or taking an active part in architectural discussions • Making sure the team has all the things they need, to deliver their work in an efficient manner • Shaping the team according to project needs and company culture • Monitoring project progress, identifying and managing project risks • Making proper decisions together with client and technical leaders, who report to you • Participating in company processes: hiring, onboarding, employee development process

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 Manager, Software Engineering • The Decision Management program enables intelligent decision based products through streaming analytics with the ability to govern these decisions and manage their outcomes with business agility.• This program leverages business rules & AI engines, a streaming big data cluster, an in memory data grids, APIs, & UIs to deliver real time decisions at global scale• This person will be responsible for leading the team as well as stay hands on. We are looking for a Manager to join our DMP team in Dublin office. • Are you a looking for a role with right balance of people management and hands-on with the code?• Are you a strong technical programmer with experience leading a team?• Are you passionate about making a difference in this world?• Do you want to be part of a team which helps prevent fraud on every mastercard transaction in this world? Role• Lead and manage the team including performance review and technical guidance.• Understand the business priorities and work on a roadmap so that business values are delivered.• Manage your own time while collaborating with teammates to accomplish project goals.• Collaborate with the architect and make sure the team is aligned with architecture guidelines.• Apply best development practices to help team well designed, maintainable, testable, scalable, and secure code. Essential Knowledge/Experience• Strong People management skills.• Strong programming skills with deep knowledge of Java.• Strong leadership skills.• Good multi-tasking abilities.• Knowledge of Spring and other frameworks.• Good knowledge of unit testing and mocking frameworks like junit, mockito or easymock.• Good knowledge of SQL and experience working with Oracle.• Experience working with high performance applications. • Good problem diagnostic and creative problem solving skills.• Strong organizational skills; able to manage multiple tasks within the constraints and timelines determined by business needs. Desirable Skills: • Experience with IBM ILOG/ODM and Pivotal Gemfire Grid.• Experience with Dockers, Kubernetes etc.• Experience with Angular.• BS in computer science or a related field preferred. 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.

• Own end-to-end delivery across multiple concurrent projects (product, integrations, customer implementations). • Translate strategic roadmap into executable plans with clear milestones, dependencies, and risks. • Drive delivery cadence (planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives where appropriate). • Ensure consistent use of delivery frameworks. • Maintain visibility of programme health across scope, timeline, and budget. • Align priorities across teams and resolve resource conflicts. • Facilitate effective communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Provide clear, concise reporting to leadership (e.g. Engineering management updates, delivery status, risks, mitigation plans). • Track KPIs related to delivery performance, efficiency, and quality. • Proactively identify risks and dependencies across projects. • Drive mitigation strategies and ensure timely escalation where needed. • Manage trade-offs between scope, time, and quality. • Continuously improve delivery processes and ways of working. • Ensure appropriate documentation and runbooks are in place (handover readiness, operational continuity). • Support initiatives such as support rota planning, incident management, and release governance. • Own the delivery of customer-facing projects end-to-end, from initiation through to successful completion. • Act as the primary coordination point for customer projects, aligning internal teams and external stakeholders. • Translate customer requirements into structured delivery plans, ensuring clarity on scope, timelines, and dependencies. • Manage customer expectations proactively, maintaining clear and consistent communication throughout delivery. • Lead change management across customer projects. • Coordinate internal execution across Engineering, Product, and QA to meet customer commitments. • Identify delivery risks early and drive mitigation in collaboration with relevant teams. • Support pre-sales and scoping activities, ensuring proposed solutions are realistic, deliverable, and commercially sound. • Drive post-delivery reviews to capture learnings and improve future customer implementations. • Ensure delivery aligns with regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g. MDR, ISO standards, data protection).

• You will own, build, and run your startup in fields such as AI Infrastructure. • You will embark on an extensive personal development journey crafted by unicorn founders and follow a fully customised programme enhancing your goal, time, and energy management. • You will receive support in hiring through our network to over 50,000 professionals and advice as well as best practices from serial entrepreneurs. • You will iterate your product with us until having reached product-market-fit and receive support in building up a sales force or creating a marketing engine respectively.