Vice President of Software Engineering

Join Mastercard as the Vice President of Software Engineering for Decision Stream, an AI-native decisioning platform. In this role, you will drive technology strategy, architecture, engineering execution, and organizational growth. You will engage deeply with engineers, architects, and product leaders to solve complex technical challenges and influence engineering standards, software quality, and operational excellence. You will also recruit, mentor, and develop exceptional engineering talent while fostering a culture of ownership, technical curiosity, accountability, and collaboration.

• Serve as a senior technology leader and role model for engineering teams, driving architecture, design, and technology decisions across distributed systems.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop exceptional engineering talent, fostering a culture of ownership, technical curiosity, accountability, and collaboration.
• Partner closely with Product and business stakeholders to align engineering investments with customer and business value, driving execution from concept through production adoption.

• Strong hands-on technical background in cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, data platforms, and event-driven systems
• Proven experience leading software engineering teams building large-scale distributed platforms
• Track record delivering highly available, resilient, and mission-critical systems at scale
• Strong collaboration, communication, and leadership skills
• Demonstrated ability to influence architecture and engage deeply in technical design discussions
• Experience with AI/ML platforms and intelligent decisioning systems
• Experience with technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Kubernetes, and modern cloud platforms
• Background in payments, fraud, risk, or financial services
• Experience building new platforms, products, or transformational technology initiatives