Senior Vice President, Software Engineering, Payment Networks

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, Payment Networks

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’s core business. We engineer enterprise solutions to Expand in Payments and Extend our Services globally to serve our customers.

Payment Networks is comprised of mission critical Authorization, Clearing, Settlement, Account-to-Account Real Time Payments, and Value Add Services enablement platforms. This is the Engine that pulls Mastercard’s business connecting thousands of customers globally, switching ~175 billion transactions annually with Mastercard good customer experience.

The Senior Vice President, Software Engineering will be responsible to engineer solutions that enable Mastercard customers to connect into Payment Networks, stream transactions into switching platforms and integrate Transaction level value add services on every transaction. This is a senior management role with overall accountability for strategy, platform architecture, solution engineering, and operational accountability.

The Role:
• Strategic technology leader with deep, hands on experience designing and implementing highly scalable, real time platforms using a broad range of modern technologies
• Provides strategic thinking, architectural guidance, and delivery leadership across a wide range of applications and technologies (e.g., connectivity protocols, security technologies, event and streaming based architectures, cloud native and cloud agnostic designs, containerized deployments, etc.)
• Defines the organizational structure and operating mechanisms required to run a high performing engineering organization while shifting toward an AI centric SDLC/PDLC and a culture of continuous learning
• Sets the vision for an environment of ingenuity and creativity, acting as a technically savvy role model who challenges the status quo and encourages innovation
• Owns outcomes without direct authority over all resources, driving alignment and accountability across a complex stakeholder ecosystem
• Ensures all platforms meet the global regulatory, security, resiliency, and availability expectations of a mission critical payment network, operating at scale with near zero tolerance for disruption
• Inspects delivery plans and execution metrics using strong technical depth and delivery experience to assess risk and continuously raise the bar on execution excellence.
• Builds strong internal/external customer relationships and partners closely with business and product leaders to establish effective engagement models, translating market and customer needs into the delivery of high quality, scalable network services
• Actively develops engineering leaders and technical talent, continuously raising standards for performance, technical depth, program management, and people leadership as the organization scales.
• Emulates and drives The Mastercard Way through personal leadership behaviors, recognition, coaching, and employee engagement


All About You:
• Proven technology leader with experience delivering highly scalable, configurable platforms at leading technology or financial services companies. Deep understanding of architecture trade offs and how to build high throughput, highly available, resilient platforms
• Strong awareness of cutting edge industry trends and a thorough understanding of modern development methodologies and standards. Experience with data streaming technologies, containerized applications, cloud platforms, and data security is a strong plus
• Demonstrated success driving an AI c