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

The Mastercard Transaction Services (MTS) Compliance Platform Engineering team is responsible for designing, building, and operating shared compliance capabilities for Mastercard’s regulated payment flows. We build reusable services and integration patterns that standardize controls, improve operability and reduce duplicated integrations across products.
We are looking for a technically strong engineering leader with deep experience in platform architecture, distributed systems, APIs, event-driven systems, and control automation, who can build scalable, resilient, and auditable compliance capabilities for regulated payment flows.

Role

As a Director of Software Engineering, you will:

Drive business outcomes with the right technology solutions
• Lead the platform strategy, architecture & design for shared compliance capabilities, ensuring scalable, reusable solutions that enable business growth and regulatory adherence.
• Drive cross-functional delivery execution to achieve business outcomes. Establish plans, manage dependencies and risks, and ensure release readiness for production adoption across consuming teams.
• Track delivery progress through clear milestones, metrics, and stakeholder updates to ensure commitments are met.
• Plan and optimize team capacity and resourcing allocation, balancing investment trade-offs to ensure focus on highest-value roadmap priorities.
• Partner with product, compliance and other engineering teams to shape requirements, define scope, and drive reuse across products and payment flows.
• Apply payments compliance domain knowledge - including AML, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and control testing concepts - to guide platform design and translate regulatory needs into scalable engineering solutions.

Drive a culture of engineering excellence
• Drive engineering excellence across the SDLC, ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery with strong focus on reliability, scalability, and time-to-market, underpinned by observability, resilience, and effective incident response.
• Ensure all solutions meet enterprise standards for security, resilience, scalability, maintainability, and auditability, with clear accountability for service ownership and lifecycle management.
• Establish and track engineering KPIs (e.g., availability, latency, deployment frequency, MTTR), using data to drive continuous improvement and operational maturity.
• Evaluate, adopt, and scale new technologies (including AI) through targeted proofs of concept to strengthen controls, enhance compliance outcomes, and accelerate business delivery.
• Foster strong cross-functional engineering alignment, driving reuse of platforms, consistency of standards, and effective collaboration across engineering, product, risk, and operations teams.
• Embed a culture of continuous improvement and learning, leveraging retrospectives, automation, and feedback loops to systematically improve quality, resilience, and efficiency.

All About You

• Experience building and operating highly scalable, secure, and resilient platforms.
• Strong background in software development, ideally using Java and related software development frameworks.
• Strong understanding of modern delivery practices, including Agile, DevOps and SRE.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences.
• Hands-on technical leader who consistently demonstrates leadership, builds trust, inspires teams and is comfortable moving between strategy and technical depth.
• Proven people leader who develops talent, manages performance, and builds inclusive, high-performing teams with a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline.

Corporate Security Responsibility

Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

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.