Vice President, 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 Vice President, Software Engineering Overview: At Mastercard, our industry expertise is enhanced by our commitment to being a force for good in the world and to doing well by doing good. Mastercard relies on our global workforce to help us achieve our goal of building a sustainable, inclusive global economy. The Mastercard Way encourages us, connects us with the behaviors that represent the essence of not only what we do but who we are as an organization. Cultivating an environment for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views and experiences drives a global and collaborative culture of inclusion and sense of belonging. MasterCard is recruiting a Vice President of Software Engineering to lead software engineering teams developing advanced technologies and applications that are revolutionizing payments. MasterCard software engineering teams leverage Agile development principles, advanced development and design practices, and an obsession over security, reliability, and performance to deliver solutions that delight our customers. Are you passionate about software engineering? Are you fanatical about building large scale, distributed systems the right way? Do you want to help software engineers to build better quality software faster? Do you firmly believe that code talks, and just about anything else walks? Do you want to join a Company that offers a competitive benefits-and rewards program that attracts, develops and retains the most talented employees around the world? Do you want to join an inclusive culture where employees, in all their diversity, feel valued, respected and who can bring their authentic selves to work? Learn more at Mastercard’s Corporate Sustainability Report. Key Responsibility: 1. Release Quality & Platform Stability Own end‑to‑end release quality, safeguarding customer experience and platform trust across all deployments. Establish and enforce rigorous testing standards, release readiness criteria, and go/no‑go decision frameworks. Drive risk management and defect containment strategies, including early detection, root‑cause analysis, and preventive actions. Lead quality governance across development, testing, and production operations—ensuring predictable, stable releases. Champion engineering accountability for production health, incident reduction, and operational excellence. Partner with Product, Operations, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to ensure resilience, observability, and recoverability. 2. Modernization & Technology Evolution Define and execute the technology modernization roadmap, reducing technical debt while improving scalability, resilience, and efficiency. Lead transformation initiatives including: Legacy platform modernization Cloud‑native and hybrid architectures Microservices, API‑first, and event‑driven systems Drive continuous improvement in engineering productivity, deployment velocity, and cost efficiency. Ensure architectural consistency, security, and compliance across platforms and regions. Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies aligned with long‑term business and platform strategy. 3. AI & Intelligent Automation Leadership Drive AI adoption across the engineering organization, embedding intelligence into developme