Sr Consultant, Internet Engineering

MasterCard Worldwide

Job Overview: This position will consult at the highest level, with staff enterprise-wide, on strategic direction, design, and delivery of MasterCard Worldwide's Internet capabilities to ensure alignment with MasterCard's overall enterprise architecture and all business strategies for MasterCard's web based properties.

Position will utilize previous experience with world-class, top-tier online providers to ensure the evolution of MasterCard's overall Internet platform continues to meet business demands from all technical aspects including integration with enterprise architecture, web/Java development evolution, security and compliance, and overall operational excellence with a focus on costs and resource efficiency.
Major Accountabilities: ' Collaborate with business partners to ensure alignment of Internet platform with business strategies.
' Develop and communicate, at all levels of the organization, solutions relative to the overall Internet platform.
' Successfully lead definition, development and delivery of major cross-department initiatives with broad scope and long-term business implications relative to MasterCard's Internet infrastructure capabilities. Collaborate with business and technical partners to identify and scope the opportunities, quantify costs, outline potential value and ROI, identify risks, benefits and constraints.
' Develop business case in alignment with the MasterCard objectives. Lead scenario planning process and creation, validation and review of estimates, costs and benefits. Actively look for opportunities for Innovation and creative problem solving. Make presentations to the Senior Management, Business Owners and other Stakeholders to assist them in decision making process.
' Perform Proofs of Concepts to assess and identify the technologies per the needs of the organization. Provide recommendation to Senior Management on selection of technologies and strategic technical direction for the department. Lead creation of roadmaps that align with the department strategy and long term business vision and objectives, staying abreast of related technological developments.
' Coach and mentor team members, enable knowledge sharing via brownbag sessions on new and upcoming technologies, methodologies and application appropriate frameworks.
' Lead implementation of processes and supporting tools per the evolving needs of the organization. Identifying process gaps, provide estimates for business solutions, define the initial scope/requirements of the project and manage the scope during the lifecycle of the project. Plan overall project scope as well as define scope for each phase and iteration to meet business needs/time-to-market needs.
' Define and Lead Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes in the department. Ensure compliance to quality methodology and development of quality metrics by the team. Create guidelines, processes and standards to ensure high overall quality of product and incident free deployment.
' Instruct and guide the team to ensure that appropriate processes and documentation is in use by the team. Ensure compliance to the defined standards. Actively look for opportunities to modify and enhance standards per the needs of the department. Develop documentation templates, lead and enforce development of artifacts through out the solution development lifecycle.
' Ensure compliance of Audit Requirements by proactively educating team on Compliance Requirements and Integrating Compliance Requirements in SDLC. Represent team during Compliance Audits.

Education (preferred): 'Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent work experience.
Knowledge / Experience (preferred): ' 8 plus years' direct experience in delivering online capabilities to meet business and product strategies. This should include a focused relationship with technical and business providers.
' 8 plus years experience understanding revenue generating online products and solutions, including alignment of technical capabilities, for companies with online products that have a direct bottom-line impact.
' 8 plus years experience delivering secure online solutions in Financial Services Sector preferred.
' Extensive understanding of and experience with Internet Engineering Concepts, Methodologies, and technologies. 8 plus years of experience with internet engineering methodologies is highly desirable.
' Proven track record in selection and implementation of methodologies with focus on Lean methodology, delivery of High Efficiency Solutions leading to productivity gains is required.
' Experience in vendor relationship management, vendor selection, RFI/RFP process, and Statement of Work development and execution.
' Proven ability to embody MC Leadership Principles and Core Competencies.
' Proven capacity to lead and influence matrix based project team members and work as a member of a diverse and geographically distributed team.
' Experience in operations environment is highly desirable.
Skills / Abilities: ' Able to be politically savvy, high-energy, detail-oriented and proactive.
' Able to function under pressure in an independent environment with a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results and strong ability in collection and formulation of data, development of Metrics and dashboard reporting.
' Demonstrate ability to organize, manage, plan and control several concurrent initiatives with conflicting needs and the ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities.
' Demonstrate leadership and relationship skills with ability to influence others without having direct authority with proven ability to sell solutions, persuade cross-functional group, garner support for solutions and bring group to a consensus along with strong communication skills both verbal and written.

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Company:
  MasterCard International
Location:
  O'Fallon 63366
Status:
  Full Time, Employee
Job Category:
  IT/Software Development
Career Level:
  Experienced (Non-Manager)
Company:
  MasterCard International
Reference Code:
  mast-00015108