Mastercard is seeking a strategic Vice President of Software Engineering to lead a critical engineering division. This role is instrumental in delivering enterprise capabilities for configuration, onboarding, validation, certification, and lifecycle management. The ideal candidate will shape technology strategy, drive product delivery, modernize platforms, and foster organizational leadership to support Mastercard's expanding business needs.

This senior leadership position demands a strategic mindset, a results-oriented engineering leader, and a builder of exceptional teams. Success requires effective collaboration across product, engineering, architecture, operations, security, and business stakeholders. The role focuses on enabling a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper through secure, simple, smart, and accessible digital payments.

Lead the Settings Engineering strategy by defining and executing technology vision, strategy, and roadmaps. Drive platform modernization using cloud-native architecture, APIs, and event-driven systems. Ensure platform scalability, resilience, and security, aligning with enterprise standards. Partner with product and business leaders to align technology investments with strategic priorities and develop multi-year roadmaps balancing innovation and stability.

Drive product delivery by translating business strategy into engineering plans and establishing outcome-based delivery practices. Ensure successful delivery of strategic initiatives across global teams and stakeholders. Enable digital transformation by automating manual processes, improving operational efficiency, and enhancing customer experiences.

Champion engineering excellence through high standards in software architecture, code quality, testing, automation, security, and reliability. Foster modern practices like CI/CD, DevSecOps, and SRE. Drive AI adoption for improved developer productivity and operational efficiency, establishing governance and best practices.

Build and lead a high-performing global engineering organization by recruiting, developing, and mentoring software engineers, managers, and architects. Cultivate a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement, promoting diversity and developing leadership pipelines. Lead geographically distributed teams effectively.

Demonstrated success building and operating enterprise-scale software platforms is essential. A strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, APIs, event-driven platforms, and modern application development practices is required. Experience leading large-scale technology modernization and digital transformation initiatives is crucial.

Proven ability to deliver complex, business-critical platforms within highly regulated or mission-critical environments. A strong track record of building, mentoring, and developing high-performing engineering teams is necessary. Experience managing large technology portfolios, budgets, and strategic investment decisions is expected.

Candidates must possess the ability to influence senior executives and drive alignment across cross-functional stakeholders. Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills are vital. Experience implementing AI-assisted software development capabilities and engineering productivity initiatives will be a significant advantage.