Director, Platform Engineering

Mastercard • New York, NY

3d

About The Position

Job Overview:
Provides extensive leadership, direction, and supervision of technical staff performing design, architecture, implementation, security and support of large multi-site, multi-vendor MPLS network communication environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in related functional area or equivalent work experience with exposure to management theories and concepts.
• 8+ years of experience.
• Extensive knowledge of Cisco’s product portfolio.
• Extensive knowledge of Project Management methodology and best practices.
• Extensive experience in leadership position of a team consisting of five or more personnel.
• Limited supervision and leads in determining team’s and departmental objectives.
• Periodic work direction and review.
• Lead and manage senior technical individual contributor and management staffs.
• Foster open communications across various organizational levels.
• Motivate direct and indirect reports to deliver superior results.
• Think clearly and utilizes sound judgment.
• Provide functional and directional guidance to staff and recommends policy or strategic direction changes to management.
• Will interact across multiple organizational levels and will assume a lead role and set direction for large or complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Supervision of existing network resources, project management, implementation and oversight of network projects.
• Supervise a staff that develops detailed requirements for upgrading existing corporate and MasterCard networks, as well as re-architecting network segments in order to facilitate new requirements, technologies and growth.
• Manage the resolution of network communications and operations problems impacting customer or backbone access and performance globally.
• Participate in telecommunications-related initiatives.
• Research and develop innovative network solutions and support chronic complex problem resolution.
• Manage assigned regional projects, which include responsibility for planning; time and cost control; resource utilization and implementation.
• Support Vendor management.
• Recommend future directions and participate in strategic and financial planning.
• Coach and develop direct reports and other employees and ensure department or project is adequately staffed, trained and effectively managed.
• Assume role of primary technical advisor to management on emerging technologies that could impact new developments.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees