Vice President, Software Engineering

Vice President, Software Engineering

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.

Job Description Summary: The Mastercard Decision Management Program has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Principal Engineer who will provide architectural and technical direction to the platform. Decision Management is going through a major re-engineering effort. DMP operates at massive scale, ultra-low latency and high availability. This role will provide technical guidance to our team focused on the design and build for resilience, including observability, throttling, toggling, single points of failure, redundancy, replication, routing, micro services, event driven processing.

Role: In this Senior Principal Software Engineer position, you will:

• Design solutions for highly complex platform capabilities which are scalable and resilient
• Provide technical leadership, a growing team of software engineers across multiple physical sites
• Work with DMP leadership and peers to define the technical vision and strategy
• Partner across the enterprise to drive standards and frameworks
• Partner closely with DMP Engineering, Architecture and other Mastercard technology teams.

All About You: The ideal candidate for this position should have:

• A wide breadth and depth of software engineering experience with a successful delivery track record for mission critical systems
• Demonstrated innovative thought-leadership
• Ability to innovatively leverage new technologies and solve technical challenges
• Proven record of operational excellence
• Ability to create a collaborative engineering environment that foster excellence

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.