Lead Java Developer

Who is Mastercard? We are the global technology company behind the world's fastest payments processing network. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless. We ensure every employee has the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives. We believe as our company grows, so should you. We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities. Job Title Lead Java Developer About the role: Vocalink Mastercard Engineering is in the process of organising itself to enable building products in a modular and more flexible way. We are building upon our industry leading knowledge to develop our Next Gen platforms. The Manager, Software Development Engineering is responsible for working within a product focussed Engineering Group to delivery our NextGen solutions. You will be focussed on: Lead development of a critical section of the next generation of payment products Architecting, design and implementation of the solution Writing exemplary code Mentoring team members in Agile ways of working Mentoring team members in technical best practice Provide constructive feedback for individual engineer's performance improvement on a cadence Guide engineers through their career progression Customer focussed delivery You are friendly and approachable with a love for the craft of software development. You have a desire to continually improve your own skills and the ability to transfer those skills to others and, of course, you love seeing your software in production. At Vocalink we deliver products and services that are market leading and we can only do this because of our people. The Manager will be part of a team accountable for delivering our products and services successfully in order to maintain our market leading position. Role duties: Business Change Support the business in the successful delivery of change, agility and continuous improvement Meet the business/customer requirements and be in accordance with defined quality, coding standards and architectural principles. Technical Evolution Ensure delivery of solutions to the highest quality Assessment, selection and adoption of key technologies to drive software development and deliver efficiency People Mentor team members in new ways of working using techniques such as paired programming, leading hackathons etc. Foster a collaborative culture within the delivery team Work within the team to foster a culture of collaboration, high performance and rapid delivery Other To work across all Vocalink sites and service lines, which includes some international travel To carry out any other task associated with the role as reasonably requested To drive towards a self-learning organisation To build continuous improvement into our ways of working To make extensive use of automation (as appropriate) - not limited to test automation. All about you: A good level of verbal and written English skills Experience delivering solutions within an agile model and scaled agile approaches Strong mentoring skills, encourage and grow developers in their craft Previous experience in developing high performing systems with a track record of successful delivery Strong technical ability to support collaborative interaction with development teams, architects and business leads Successfully history of delivery cloud based solutions Expertise in Test Driven Development Successful history of delivering in a Continuous Delivery environment Expertise in Jenkins, Gitlab pipelines or another build pipeline technology Triage and debug of production issues Knowledge of current software architecture trends and practices Experience performance testing and tuning applications in a high throughput, low latency environment Technically astute at a high level Should be highly competent at leading development and test Demonstrate deep experience of modern development practices - software configuration management, continuous integration, deployment and test Worked with or built in modern technology Continuous integration/delivery Automated test at unit and acceptance test level Cloud based technologies Delivery focused in required time frames Delivered shippable product after every sprint Understand end to end tool chain and how that underpins speed Agile Worked within a range of agile models, e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Lean Technical In depth Java 7+ experience and at least one other JVM language (e.g. Scala, Clojure) Maven build tool Performance and optimisation tools such as JMH, Grinder, JMeter, JClarity's Censum Container technologies, e.g. Docker Container orchestration/scheduling technologies, e.g. Kubernetes, Apache Mesos Working with public cloud providers, e.g. AWS One or more messages queues, e.g. Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ Knowledge of XML/XSD/JSON Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, s