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

The Digital wallets team are seeking a visionary and results-driven Director of Engineering to lead a service group in our critical digital wallet payments platform. This role is pivotal in driving engineering excellence, scaling delivery capabilities, and fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement. You will be responsible for aligning engineering strategy with business goals, mentoring high-performing teams, and ensuring the successful delivery of complex software solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Execution

Define and drive the engineering strategy in alignment with company objectives.
Hands-on experience building API and applications with full-stack expertise in diverse technologies, including cloud and AI would be a plus.
Proven ability to lead and manage large and diverse global teams (including vendor partners), and of building highly motivated, engaged and innovative teams to deliver high-quality, scalable software products on time and within budget.
Champion engineering best practices, including DevOps, CI/CD, and agile methodologies.
Identify and mitigate technical and delivery risks across programs and initiatives.

People Leadership & Coaching

Build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering teams through career development, coaching, and performance management.
Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous learning.
Set clear goals and expectations, and provide regular feedback and development plans.

Operational Excellence

Own the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle, from requirements through release and support.
Continuously improve engineering processes, tools, and metrics to optimize team performance and product quality.
Ensure operational readiness, including incident response, monitoring, and service reliability.

Proficiencies

Profound experience developing scalable, high performing application real-time and batch processing.
Design and Architecture patterns APIs, event-driven-services, batch-services, messaging systems
Programming Java, REST API, Micro-services, Spring boot and Kafka
Cloud and DevOps Architecture Kubernetes, Docker, Chef, Azure, AWS
Databases Oracle and any open source
Tools Eclipse or IntelliJ, Sonar, GIT, Maven, SQL Developer, Jenkins, CI/CD

Collaboration & Communication

Partner with Product, Operations, and Business stakeholders to define scope, priorities, and roadmaps.
Communicate technical vision and progress to executive leadership and non-technical stakeholders.
Represent engineering in strategic planning and budgeting discussions.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
12+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 4 years in a senior leadership role.
Proven track record of delivering complex software systems at scale in a fast-paced environment.

Technical And Business Acumen

Experience in Payments in Acceptance, Switch, Issuance eco systems and associated messaging protocols and standards such as ISO 8583, ISO 20022 is a plus
Deep understanding of modern software architecture, cloud infrastructure, and service-oriented systems.
Strong grasp of software operations, including monitoring, incident management, and performance tuning.
Experience managing budgets, forecasting, and resource planning.

Leadership & Communication

Exceptional leadership skills with the ability to inspire and influence across all levels of the organization.
Skilled at translating complex technical concepts into clear, actionable plans.
Experience presenting to executive audiences and driving alignment across diverse stakeholders.

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.

Senior DevOps Engineer / Associate Director, Software Engineering

Director Software Engineering

Senior Director Software Engineering