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

Senior Vice President, 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

Payment Networks is the nervous system of Mastercard business. We engineer enterprise solutions to Expand in Payments and Extend our Services globally to serve our customers.

The Payment Networks comprises of mission critical Authorization, Clearing, Settlement, Services Enablement and Global Real Time Payments platforms. This is the Engine that pulls Mastercard’s business connecting thousands of customers globally, switching billions of transactions annually with Mastercard good customer experience.

The Senior Vice President, Software Engineering will be responsible to engineer solutions that enable Mastercard customers and internal stakeholders to leverage Payment Networks platforms and enable services on transactions.

Role:

- Strategic technical leader who brings considerable experience designing and implementing highly scalable technology solutions using a broad range of technologies
- Define the structures and operating mechanisms to run your organization while shifting to a data driven and continuous learning culture across your organization
- Inspect the delivery plans and execution metrics using your own tech depth and delivery experience to assess risks and continuously raising the bar
- Provides strategic thinking and leadership related to a wide range of applications and systems, or software-development methodologies
- Build and cultivate strong internal customer relationships to establish engagement models for your team, ensure delivery of quality products in alignment with expectations, and uncover cross company requirements.
- Collaborates with business/product owners to develop and deliver on new services to address market, customer, and product needs.
- Actively encourage the development of your managers and your technical staff while continuously raising the bar on performance, technical depth, program management results, and people management as you hire new managers
- Emulate and drive Mastercard Way behaviors through their behavior, recognitions, coaching, and employee engagement
- Sets the vision for an environment of ingenuity and creativity and acts as a role model for others in challenging the status quo to encourage innovation

About You:

- Highly collaborative and balanced decision-maker who leverages data, insights, and strong communication to prioritize key strategies needed to enable customers and internal stakeholders to leverage Payment Networks Platforms and enable services on transactions
- Passion for bringing solutions to market, strong IT experience with successful track record in managing medium-to-large scale multi location development organization (100+ staff) with demonstrated thought-leadership, cross-functional influence, and partnership
- Ability to manage objectives and pipelines, build business cases, define success metrics and interpret P&L to optimize the business
- Technical leader who has delivered highly scalable and configurable platforms at leading technology or financial companies. Understands architecture, trade-offs and how to build platforms
- Experience managing multiple functional areas within technology such as technical architecture, software development, and production support
- Experience in managing contracts for technology delivery with vendors and service providers
- Develop leaders within the team – empowered to operate autonomously with support when needed
- Has the executive presence to work with senior leaders within Mastercard and with our customers
- Familiar with cutting edge industry trends and thorough understanding of development methodologies and standards
- Trusted partner with internal and external stakeholders - providing consultative technical and business leadership.

Mastercard is an inclusive equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.