Mastercard
Financial Services
Director,SoftwareEngineering
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“Director, Software Engineering at Mastercard. Skills: Platform architecture, Distributed systems, APIs, Event-driven systems. Lead platform strategy. Drive business outcomes”
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Experience building and operating highly scalable, secure, and resilient platforms, Background in software development, Understanding of modern delivery practices
Nice to Have
Java and related software development frameworks experience
What You'll Do.
Lead platform strategy
Drive business outcomes
Drive cross-functional delivery execution
Ensure release readiness
Track delivery progress
Optimize resourcing allocation
Partner with compliance
Partner with engineering teams
Drive reuse across products
Apply payments compliance domain knowledge
Guide platform design
Translate regulatory needs
Drive engineering excellence
Ensure consistent delivery
Ensure high-quality delivery
Focus on time-to-market
Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards
Establish engineering KPIs
Use data to drive continuous improvement
Evaluate new technologies
Adopt new technologies
Scale new technologies
Enhance compliance outcomes
Accelerate business delivery
Foster cross-functional engineering alignment
Drive reuse of platforms
Drive consistency of standards
Drive effective collaboration
Embed a culture of continuous improvement
Leverage retrospectives
Leverage feedback loops
Systematically improve quality
Systematically improve resilience
Systematically improve efficiency
Abide by Mastercard’s security policies
Ensure confidentiality
Ensure integrity of information
Report security violations
Report security breaches
Complete mandatory security trainings
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams; Engineering alignment; Product teams; Compliance teams; Risk teams; Operations teams
Communication Scope
Explain complex technical concepts
Process & Methodology
Agile, DevOps, SRE
Full Job Description
**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
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