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

Overview
The Mastercard Xborder Services team is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead platform transformation, drive engineering excellence, and scale global delivery. This role aligns technology strategy with business outcomes while building high-performing teams and delivering resilient, scalable platforms.

Key Responsibilities
• Define and execute engineering strategy aligned with business objectives.
• Lead and scale global engineering teams, including vendor partners.
• Drive delivery of complex, high-quality software platforms on time and within budget.
• Champion best practices across architecture, DevOps, CI/CD, and agile delivery.
• Own end-to-end software delivery, operational readiness, and service reliability.
• Identify and mitigate technical, delivery, and operational risks.
• Partner with Product, Operations, and Business stakeholders and communicate progress to executive leadership.

Technical Expertise
• Scalable, real-time systems and modern distributed architectures.
• APIs, event-driven and messaging-based systems.
• Java, REST, Microservices, Spring Boot, Kafka.
• Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker.
• Databases: Oracle and open-source platforms.

People Leadership
• Build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering teams.
• Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Provide coaching, clear goals, and ongoing feedback.

Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 14+ years in software engineering with 2+ years in senior leadership roles.
• Proven experience delivering large-scale platforms in fast-paced environments.
• Payments or financial services experience is a plus.
• Strong business acumen, budgeting, and stakeholder management skills.

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.