Director, Software Engineering

Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Director, Software Engineering
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
Payments Network Technology is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead engineering teams delivering secure, reliable, and scalable payment-network capabilities. The role combines people leadership, technology direction, delivery accountability, and cross-functional partnership.
Roles and Responsibilities
• Lead and develop multiple engineering teams, including managers and senior technical leaders.
• Set engineering direction aligned with product priorities, architecture standards, resiliency, security, and operational objectives.
• Own delivery outcomes across a portfolio of services, balancing customer commitments, technical investment, risk, and capacity.
• Build an inclusive, accountable engineering culture through hiring, coaching, succession planning, and career development.
• Partner with Product Management, Architecture, Operations, Security, and dependent programs to resolve priorities and delivery risks.
• Establish measurable standards for quality, automation, release readiness, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Communicate portfolio status, risks, trade-offs, and decisions to senior leadership.
Essential Skills
• Experience leading managers and multiple software engineering teams.
• Experience with large-scale, highly available platforms and modern software engineering practices.
• Working knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, cloud-native delivery, CI/CD, and observability.
• Ability to translate business strategy into executable engineering plans and organizational priorities.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
All About You
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments and across the software development lifecycle.
• Clear communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work with globally distributed product, engineering, architecture, operations, and business teams.
• Experience managing two or more software development teams.
• Proven experience leading complex technology solutions from concept through design, delivery, and production adoption.
• Experience building resilient, operable solutions, with operational readiness considered from the start of development.
• People-management experience covering performance management, conflict resolution, coaching, and career development planning.
• Payments or financial-services domain knowledge is preferred.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.