Manager Software Engineering

Mastercard•O'fallon, MO

9d•$140,000 - $231,000•Onsite

About The Position

Mastercard is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to lead a high-performing team responsible for building, enhancing, and supporting enterprise software solutions, internal engineering platforms, and workflow automation capabilities. This role combines strong people leadership with technical expertise to deliver scalable, secure, resilient, and operationally excellent software products. The successful candidate will drive engineering excellence across the software development lifecycle while coaching and developing engineers, influencing technical direction, and partnering with stakeholders to deliver business outcomes. This leader will foster a culture of accountability, innovation, continuous improvement, and customer focus while supporting modernization initiatives and enterprise engineering standards.

Requirements

Strong hands-on experience designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting enterprise software solutions.
Proven success leading software engineering teams and driving technical delivery in complex environments.
Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, scalable systems, and cloud-native technologies.
Experience leading teams responsible for enterprise platforms, APIs, integration solutions, or workflow automation capabilities.
Demonstrated experience with code reviews, software quality practices, testing strategies, and engineering governance.
Strong understanding of secure coding practices, application security, and regulatory considerations.
Experience managing operational support, service reliability, and incident response processes.
Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to influence stakeholders across business and technology organizations.
Strong communication, leadership, and organizational skills.
5+ years of software engineering experience.
2+ years of people leadership, team management, or technical leadership experience.
Experience working within Agile delivery frameworks.
Experience delivering enterprise software solutions from concept through production support.
Experience leading engineering teams through project execution, prioritization, and delivery management.

Nice To Haves

Experience building or supporting developer platforms, internal engineering tools, workflow automation platforms, or productivity solutions.
Experience with Microsoft Power Platform, Power Automate, workflow automation technologies, or low-code/no-code solutions.
Experience with Java, React, API-based architectures, and cloud-native platforms.
Experience with distributed systems, high-availability architectures, and scalable enterprise applications.
Knowledge of observability, monitoring, site reliability engineering (SRE), and operational excellence practices.
Demonstrated success driving modernization, engineering transformation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Experience developing and mentoring engineers across multiple experience levels.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of enterprise software solutions, internal platforms, and automation capabilities.
Translate business and functional requirements into scalable, maintainable, secure, and high-quality technical solutions.
Drive engineering excellence across the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including software design, architecture, coding standards, testing strategies, release management, and operational readiness.
Partner with architects and senior engineering leaders to establish solution patterns, technology standards, and long-term platform direction.
Ensure solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned with enterprise architecture and engineering standards.
Promote strong software engineering fundamentals including object-oriented design principles, algorithms, data structures, and system design.
Lead architecture and design discussions while balancing technical trade-offs, operational requirements, and business priorities.
Establish and champion best practices for software development, code quality, testing, performance, and maintainability.
Ensure robust unit, functional, integration, and automated testing practices are incorporated throughout the development lifecycle.
Oversee code review processes, ensuring high-quality, secure, and supportable software solutions.
Promote secure coding practices, DevSecOps principles, vulnerability remediation, and compliance with enterprise security standards.
Drive performance engineering initiatives, including performance testing, scalability assessments, capacity planning, and optimization efforts.
Continuously improve engineering processes, delivery practices, and team effectiveness.
Ensure applications and services are designed with reliability, observability, maintainability, and supportability as core requirements.
Champion operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, incident management, root-cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
Lead troubleshooting activities for complex production incidents and provide guidance during high-severity operational events.
Drive improvements in system resiliency, availability, disaster recovery readiness, and operational automation.
Establish metrics and monitoring strategies to proactively identify risks and improve service health.
Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, trust, collaboration, and continuous learning.
Establish clear goals and performance expectations while providing regular coaching, feedback, and career development support.
Drive hiring, onboarding, workforce planning, and succession planning activities.
Build diverse, high-performing teams and encourage innovation, experimentation, and professional growth.
Create an inclusive team environment where individuals are empowered to contribute, learn, and succeed.
Manage multiple initiatives simultaneously, ensuring priorities align with business objectives and strategic outcomes.
Partner with product, program, and business teams to define scope, priorities, timelines, and success measures.
Identify and proactively manage risks, dependencies, and technical trade-offs.
Ensure transparency through effective communication, reporting, and stakeholder engagement.
Deliver high-quality solutions with speed, agility, and accountability while maintaining focus on customer and business value.
Foster an enterprise mindset by connecting team objectives to broader Mastercard goals and encouraging cross-functional collaboration.
Contribute to technical roadmaps, modernization strategies, and long-term engineering vision.
Lead organizational and technical change initiatives, supporting adoption of new technologies, engineering practices, and delivery models.
Promote continuous improvement through innovation, automation, simplification, and operational efficiency.
Navigate ambiguity, competing priorities, and organizational complexity while maintaining delivery focus and team engagement.

Benefits

insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
flexible spending account and health savings account
16 weeks of new parent leave
up to 20 days of bereavement leave
80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time
25 days of vacation time
5 personal days
10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
401k with a best-in-class company match
deferred compensation for eligible roles
fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
eligibility for tuition reimbursement