LeadSoftwareEngineer

**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** ### Lead Software Engineer ### Overview The Program Modernization team at MasterCard drives transformation and champions modernization across technology, risk, and service operations. We establish the foundation for scalable programs, resilient systems and control governance that empowers transformation. The mission of the Technology Modernization team is to enable all the Mastercard programs across the organization to thrive in an evolving regulatory environment by fostering a culture of strong technology controls and effective execution. The team designs and delivers innovative, data-driven solutions that fulfill assurance obligations and regulatory requirements by proactively identifying risks, build real-time tools that leverage technology to continuously test and monitor the control environment. These capabilities enables audit-ready compliance portal for inventorying, managing, testing, and evidencing technology controls. Mastercard is committed to driving innovation through advanced technologies and data-driven insights. We are seeking a Lead Engineer to design and deliver scalable, enterprise-grade AI solutions that enhance our digital capabilities and customer experiences. This role will focus on building intelligent, production-ready systems leveraging large language models (LLMs), knowledge bases with vector search, and modern cloud/data platforms, while ensuring alignment with Mastercard’s standards for security, performance, a