Manager, Platform Engineering

Mastercard•O'fallon, MO

1d•$122,000 - $207,000

About The Position

The Manager, Platform Engineering leads a team responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable, secure, and resilient platform infrastructure. The role combines hands-on technical leadership across Mastercard’s Big Data Engineering team with people management, enabling teams to deliver high-quality solutions aligned with enterprise priorities. The manager drives modern engineering practices—including infrastructure as code, container platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and microservices architectures—and fosters a high-performing, collaborative team environment. The position leads cloud and platform engineering, distributed systems and microservices, software engineering enablement, and infrastructure and operating systems. It also includes direct people leadership and developing proficiency in enterprise leadership capabilities. The successful candidate will lead and develop an inclusive engineering team, provide coaching and growth opportunities, and support hiring and talent development. They will also contribute to platform and technology strategy, drive execution against business objectives, navigate complexity, promote change, and connect team outcomes to broader organizational impact. The position is based on the listed O’Fallon, Missouri pay range. Mastercard intends to fill the position by 01/26/2027, or as soon as possible if that date has passed. The offered base salary may vary based on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience; the successful candidate may also be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role.

Requirements

Experience leading high-performing engineering teams with a customer-focused mindset.
Ability to attract, grow, and develop exceptional, future-ready talent in a platform, cloud, or DevOps environment.
Strong expertise across Big Data platforms and technologies such as Hadoop and Cloudera.
Experience managing or operating distributed systems and microservices architectures.
Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Python, Java, or Go.
Strong understanding of operating systems and enterprise IT infrastructure.
Experience integrating security requirements into platform engineering practices.

Nice To Haves

Experience in enterprise-scale or regulated environments.
Experience optimizing cloud cost, performance, and scalability.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and delivery of cloud infrastructure solutions that meet scalability, resilience, security, and cost-efficiency requirements.
Oversee development and operation of container platforms and orchestration environments, such as Kubernetes.
Ensure platform capabilities support evolving application performance and business needs.
Establish and mature CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows for efficient, high-quality software delivery.
Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code for consistent, automated infrastructure provisioning and management.
Champion automation to reduce manual processes and increase reliability and speed.
Guide teams in building and operating distributed systems and microservices architectures.
Ensure systems are designed for fault tolerance, scalability, and performance.
Oversee monitoring, observability, and operational health across platform services.
Provide technical direction on software programming practices and frameworks.
Ensure engineering solutions meet standards for performance, maintainability, and reliability.
Partner with application teams to align platform capabilities with development needs.
Oversee management of operating systems and core IT infrastructure components, including compute, storage, and networking.
Ensure platform environments are stable, performant, and aligned with enterprise standards.
Build and develop a high-performing, inclusive engineering team.
Provide coaching, feedback, and growth opportunities for team members.
Support hiring and talent development aligned to future capability needs.
Drive accountability and execution against business objectives.
Lead teams through ambiguity and cross-functional dependencies.
Promote new technologies, tools, and ways of working.
Connect team output to broader organizational impact.
Contribute insights and innovation to platform and technology strategy.
Abide by Mastercard security policies and practices, protect the confidentiality and integrity of accessed information, report suspected security violations or breaches, and complete mandatory security training.

Benefits

Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
Flexible spending account and health savings account.
Paid leaves, including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave.
80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time.
25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, prorated based on date of hire.
10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays.
401(k) with a company match.
Deferred compensation for eligible roles.
Fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities.
Tuition reimbursement eligibility.
A competitive base salary; annual bonus or commissions may be available depending on the role.