Vice President, Software Engineering
Mastercard · Posted Oct 29
Global technology company connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, and businesses through secure payment processing and digital commerce solutions
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About the role
Mastercard powers economies and supports digital payments choices across 200+ countries, and its software engineering teams use Agile development, advanced design practices, and a focus on security, reliability, and performance to deliver payment solutions. The organization is recruiting a Vice President of Software Engineering to lead engineering teams building large-scale distributed systems that are revolutionizing payments. The role owns release quality and platform stability, technology modernization, AI and intelligent automation adoption, engineering leadership and culture, and executive stakeholder partnership.
What you will do
- Own end‑to‑end release quality, safeguarding customer experience and platform trust across all deployments.
- Establish and enforce rigorous testing standards, release readiness criteria, and go/no‑go decision frameworks.
- Drive risk management and defect containment strategies, including early detection, root‑cause analysis, and preventive actions.
- Lead quality governance across development, testing, and production operations—ensuring predictable, stable releases.
- Champion engineering accountability for production health, incident reduction, and operational excellence.
- Partner with Product, Operations, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to ensure resilience, observability, and recoverability.
- Define and execute the technology modernization roadmap, reducing technical debt while improving scalability, resilience, and efficiency.
- Lead transformation initiatives including:
- Legacy platform modernization
- Cloud‑native and hybrid architectures
- Microservices, API‑first, and event‑driven systems
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering productivity, deployment velocity, and cost efficiency.
- Ensure architectural consistency, security, and compliance across platforms and regions.
- Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies aligned with long‑term business and platform strategy.
- Drive AI adoption across the engineering organization, embedding intelligence into development, testing, operations, and decision‑making.
- Sponsor AI‑enabled capabilities such as:
- Test automation and intelligent defect detection
- Predictive analytics for risk and capacity management
- AI‑assisted development and productivity tools
- Partner with business and data leaders to ensure AI delivers measurable outcomes, not experimentation alone.
- Establish responsible AI practices—governance, explainability, security, and ethical use.
- Lead, mentor, and inspire senior engineering leaders and managers across geographies.
- Build a culture of quality-first engineering, ownership, continuous learning, and innovation.
- Develop strong succession planning, upskilling strategies, and cross‑functional talent mobility.
- Foster collaboration across Product, Architecture, Operations, Security, and Business stakeholders.
- Act as a trusted engineering partner to senior executives, providing clear visibility into risk, quality, delivery, and modernization progress.
- Communicate complex technical topics in a concise, executive‑ready manner.
- Manage strategic vendor and partner relationships to ensure delivery excellence and innovation.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- You are a hands-on, technical and people leader able to manage directly and through others.
- As a technically astute leader, your recognized subject matter expertise allows you regularly dive deep into everything your teams do.
- Your leadership style is based on building trust with your team, your peers, and your management.
- You are high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive, and adaptive and can work in a dynamic environment.
- You possess strong communication skills - both verbal and written – and can get your point across efficiently to a wide range of audiences.
- You are obsessed with results, and effectively communicate objectives and how success will be measured to your teams and other stakeholders.
- You have strong decision-making skills, and you have a bias for action rather than drawn-out analysis because you understand that most decisions are not irreversible.
- You regularly lead retrospection, and continually improve as a result.
- You have strong collaborative and organizational skills and you value transparency over avoiding scrutiny.
- You understand how to guide a team member’s career including performance evaluation, coaching, and motivation.
- You are an experienced manager able to evaluate and coach other managers.
- You are experienced in distributed system design and implementation, and have a good understanding of how high-performance, high-reliability, large-scale distributed systems are built and operated.
- You have expert level knowledge of software development processes, and you practice Agile at an advanced level.
- You have experience and knowledge of Test Driven and Domain Driven Development (TDD / DDD).
- You are an experienced user of one or more Application Lifecycle Management tools (e.g., Rally, Jira).
- You have good Payments/Card industry knowledge, and you can read and understand a business case.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Mastercard
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry that connects consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments, and businesses worldwide. It operates a fast and secure payment processing network that spans more than 200 countries and territories. Through innovative products and solutions in credit, debit, digital assets, and security, Mastercard makes commerce safer, simpler, and more accessible.
- Industry
- Payments
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 1966
- Location
- Purchase, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $115M raised
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Business Officer
President & Chief Technology Officer
Chief People Officer
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