–Has ability to write secure code in Java, J2EE, Oracle, Spring, Jbpm , familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerability management –CI/CD with Ansible knowledge shall be a plus for the candidate –Understands the basic engineering principles used in building and running mission critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture) –Understands internals of operating systems (Windows, Linux) to write interoperable and performant code –Able to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyse core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors –Understands and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices –Has skills in test driven and behaviour driven development (TDD and BDD) to build just enough code and collaborate on the desired functionality –Understands and implements Application Programming Interface (API) standards and cataloguing to drive API/service adoption and commercialization –Has skills to author test code with lots of smaller tests followed by few contract tests at service level and fewer journey tests at the integration level (Test Pyramid concept) –Apply tools (e.g., Sonar, Zally, Checkmarx ) and techniques to scan and measure code quality and anti-patterns as part of development activity –Has skills to collaborate with team and business stakeholders to estimate requirements (e.g., story pointing) and prioritize based on business value –Has skills to elaborate and estimate non-functional requirements, including security (e.g., data protection, authentication, authorization), regulatory, and performance (SLAs, throughput, transactions per second) –Has skills to orchestrate release workflows and pipelines, and apply standardized pipelines via APIs to achieve CI and CD using industry standard tools (e.g., Jenkins, AWS/Azure pipelines, XL Release, others). –Has skills to understand, report, and optimize delivery metrics to continuously improve upon them (e.g., velocity, throughput, lead time, defect leakage, burndown) –Has skills to document and drive definition-of-done for requirements to meet both business and operational needs –Understands how to build robust tests to minimize defect leakage by performing regression, performance, deployment verification, and release testing –Has skills to conduct product demos and co-ordinate with product owners to drive product acceptance signoffs –Has skills to Understands customer journeys and ensure a Mastercard good experience by continuously reducing Mean time to mitigate (MTTM) for incidents and ensuring high availability (99.95% as a starting point)