DirectorofSoftwareEngineering

**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 of Software Engineering ### Mastercard is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead a team responsible for building and operating the software platforms and APIs that enable secure, scalable access to foundation model capabilities. This role plays a critical part in translating AI innovation into production‑grade, enterprise‑ready services that can be consumed safely across the business. You will lead a team of engineers focused on API development, platform services, and system reliability, ensuring that AI capabilities are exposed through robust, high‑quality software systems that meet Mastercard’s standards for security, performance, and governance. Role In this role, you will own the engineering delivery and technical direction of the software engineering team supporting the AI program. Key responsibilities include: Lead a team of software engineers responsible for building API platforms and backend services that expose foundation model capabilities (e.g. inference, embeddings, orchestration) Define and drive best practices for API design, service architecture, and distributed systems development Ensure platforms are secure by design, implementing authentication, authorization, data protection, and auditability controls Oversee the development of scalable, reliable, and high‑performance services, including traffic management, fault tolerance, and latency optimisation Partner with AI engineering teams to ensure seam