Vice President Platform 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 Vice President Platform Engineering Overview MSBX (Mastercard Secure Build Experience) is driving the next generation of the software engineering experience for more than 11,000 engineers globally. Our mission is to provide a world-class, secure, resilient, and scalable platform ecosystem that enables teams to innovate rapidly while maintaining Mastercard's highest standards for reliability, security, and compliance. The Vice President, Platform Engineering will define and execute enterprise platform engineering strategy across CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, container ecosystems, infrastructure automation, and secure software delivery. This leader will establish engineering standards, modernize enterprise platform capabilities, accelerate cloud-native adoption, and drive measurable improvements in developer productivity, operational excellence, reliability, and security. This role requires strong people leadership, technical depth, strategic vision, and enterprise influence. The successful candidate will build and develop high-performing engineering teams, partner across Security, Architecture & Technology, product, and engineering organizations, and guide platform transformation initiatives across Mastercard. Role Platform Strategy & Architecture • Define and execute the enterprise platform engineering strategy supporting software delivery, cloud infrastructure, container platforms, infrastructure automation, developer productivity, and secure engineering practices. • Drive the enterprise strategy for pipeline-as-code workflows, build runner/agent architectures, and software delivery platforms, ensuring they are scalable, resilient, secure, and aligned with Security and Architecture & Technology standards. • Establish enterprise standards and governance for CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, reusable platform capabilities, cloud-native architectures, and secure-by-default engineering practices. • Anticipate emerging technology trends and identify opportunities to improve engineering efficiency, quality, reliability, and operational excellence. • Partner with Architecture & Technology to define platform roadmaps and long-term technology direction. Cloud, Infrastructure & Platform Engineering • Lead platform modernization initiatives that advance cloud-native engineering capabilities across AWS, Azure, and enterprise infrastructure environments. • Establish standards for scalable, resilient, cost-efficient cloud infrastructure and platform services. • Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code, policy-as-code, automated governance, and reusable infrastructure patterns. • Define enterprise approaches for container platforms, Kubernetes operations, workload orchestration, platform reliability, observability, and capacity management. • Ensure platform designs support fault tolerance, scalability, distributed systems performance, and operational resilience. Software Delivery & Engineering Excellence • Advance application security within the software delivery lifecycle including SAST, SCA, secret scanning, container security, Infrastructure as Code scanning, and automated compliance controls. • Define and automate enterprise CI/CD guardrails that consistently enforce security, compliance, architectur