Director, Software Engineering

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

Overview
MSBX (Mastercard Secure Build Experience) is driving the next generation of Mastercard’s software engineers experience for more than 11,000 engineers across the globe. Our mission is to deliver a best in class, highly resilient ecosystem of products and services that simply work—so developers can focus on delivering customer value, not fighting tools. MSBX sets the foundation for frictionless, secure, and scalable software delivery across the enterprise.
DevFlow powers this transformation by modernizing the CI/CD ecosystem, retiring legacy platforms, and enabling cloud native, composable, and automated workflows. DevFlow ensures that every engineering team benefits from an opinionated, resilient, enterprise grade platform that accelerates delivery while maintaining Mastercard’s highest standards of security and compliance.

Role
• Lead a team of 8–12 engineers to deliver GitHub SCM governance, repo architecture, permissions models, and branch protection standards.
• Drive enterprise GitHub Actions workflows and runner strategies that provide scalable, resilient CI/CD.
• Advance GitHub Advanced Security adoption (CodeQL, Dependabot, secret scanning) and embed secure by default patterns into pipelines.
• Champion GitHub Copilot and AI assisted engineering, establishing best practices and measurable productivity gains.
• Develop and maintain composable Groovy based Jenkins pipelines integrated tightly with GitHub SCM and Actions.
• Automate CI/CD guardrails to enforce security, compliance, and quality across GitHub and Jenkins.
• Model hands on engineering excellence and modern CI/CD patterns for the team and broader community.
• Mentor and grow engineers, raising capability in GitHub workflows, automation, and pipeline engineering.
• Identify reuse and efficiency opportunities to streamline developer experience and reduce friction.
• Partner with product and stakeholders to define roadmaps and prioritize high impact work.
• Champion Mastercard engineering principles across GitHub and CI/CD platforms.
• Contribute to engineering guilds and communities to influence standards and share best practices.
• Define and track key platform metrics measuring reliability, adoption, and developer productivity.


All About You
• 12+ years of senior software engineering experience, with 5+ years of technical leadership guiding teams of 8–12 engineers.
• Deep software engineering expertise, with strong fundamentals in architecture, design patterns, reliability, automation, and CI/CD best practices.
• Hands-on experience with GitHub SCM, GitHub Actions, GitHub Advanced Security, and enterprise-scale CI/CD workflows.
• Strong knowledge of Groovy-based Jenkins pipelines, reusable components, and composable pipeline design.
• SRE-oriented mindset, building systems that are resilient, observable, automated, and scalable across large engineering organizations.
• Skilled in automation, observability, and infrastructure/tooling that improves developer experience and platform reliability.
• Proficient in API/web service design and integration patterns.
• Experienced modernizing legacy tooling and pipelines, driving migrations toward cloud-native, secure, best in class developer platforms.
• Excellent communicator, able to simplify complex topics and influence alignment across engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders.
• Strong mentor and technical coach, leveraging pairing, reviews, and hands-on leadership to grow engineering capability.
• Highly knowledgeable in SDLC, Agile/Scrum, and high-velocity delivery models, with a track record of improving engineering productivity and flow.
• Deep understanding of code quality, performance engineering, and developer productivity metrics (e.g., PR cycle time, code churn, commit patterns).
• Proficient in multiple programming languages, such as Java, C#, or similar modern languages.
• Experience with AWS and Azure services, IAM controls, automation patterns, and cloud security.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes (upstream or managed) and containerized, ephemeral workload design.
• Familiarity with cloud-native observability stacks and infras