Vice President, 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

Vice President, Software Engineering

Vice President Software Engineering, Architecture & Technology

Overview:
Architecture &Technology (A&T) is a team of specialists and senior engineers who reach across Programs and teams across Mastercard. We extend our reach by sponsoring and supporting the Software Engineering Guild. Our focus is reviewing, teaching, making rules when necessary, and leaning in to help teams solve hard problems. We are we are skilled in security, design for operability and customer experience, privacy, and regulatory compliance and experts on our Technology Policies. We are the stewards of several of these policies including the Engineering Principles, Software Development Lifecycle Process, External Cloud Policy, and others as needed.

Are you a collaborator capable of communicating effectively with Business and IT stakeholders across all organizational levels?

Are you an innovator who embraces, adopts, and studies the latest technology to solve challenging business and technical problems?

Do you have the experience and range to speak at an industry event, write and defend guidance on a distributed computing patterns such as consensus or observability, perform technology due diligence for an M&A opportunity, and conduct a hands-on R&D effort with open source, commercial products, and proprietary code?

Are you passionate about developing the engineers on your team to grow their careers?

If this describes you, Mastercard wants to talk to you about an opportunity to work on our A&T team.

The Role:
A&T assignments range broadly across all parts of the company, and all layers of the technology stack. As an A&T VP you will participate in numerous engagements with Mastercard engineering teams, as well as A&T deliverables such as patterns, frameworks, proof-of-concepts, incubated solutions, policy and standards updates, and shared libraries.
For some of these you will be spearheading the delivery personally or providing technical leadership to a group of contributors, including members of your team. For others you will be performing more of an advisory, mentoring role, coaching and providing feedback to help the engineering teams improve their designs, solve their problems, and become better engineers – or supervising and coaching your team members as they do the same. You may spend a portion of your time coding as part of some of these internal activities and reviewing code on some of the engagements.


As part of your duties you will directly, or through your team:
• Work on complex enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple services/programs and drive resolution.
• Contribute and lead Guild initiatives to improve the craftmanship of Software Engineering.
• Drive architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies.
• Simplify and improve the cost/benefit of a function/service/architecture strategy.
• Apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests.
• Venture beyond comfort zone to take on assignments across different areas of Software Engineering.
• Take on organization-wide and public speaking engagements and publishes white papers and blogs on relevant and emerging technical topics.
• Consult across teams and across program lines to identify synergies and reuse opportunities.
• Mentor and guide software engineers and leads in the team to improve engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance
• Engage with external technical communities to extend our reach and benefit from the discovery outside of Mastercard and our industry.
• Run Principal review architecture meetings and drive resolutions to enterprise-wide challenges and regulatory needs.
• Mentor and coach Principal Engineers across the enterprise.
• Proactively participate in setting Guild agenda and facilitates Principal community meetings across Mastercard tech hubs.
• Assist people managers in the talent management process in hiring strong engineering talent and running performance calibrations.

Competencies
• Distributed Computing Architecture (including current hand-on coding)
• Str