Vice President, Software Engineering

Mastercard • Boston, MA

20h

About The Position

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 Who is Mastercard? 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 MSBX (Mastercard Secure Build Experience) is driving the next generation of Mastercard’s software engineers experience for more than 11,000 engineers across the globe. Our mission is to deliver a best in class, highly resilient ecosystem of products and services that simply work—so developers can focus on delivering customer value, not fighting tools. MSBX sets the foundation for frictionless, secure, and scalable software delivery across the enterprise. DevFlow powers this transformation by modernizing the CI/CD ecosystem, retiring legacy platforms, and enabling cloud native, composable, and automated workflows. DevFlow ensures that every engineering team benefits from an opinionated, resilient, enterprise grade platform that accelerates delivery while maintaining Mastercard’s highest standards of security and compliance.

Requirements

• 12+ years senior engineering experience, including 5+ years in technical leadership roles guiding teams of 8–12 engineers and operating at enterprise scale.
• Deep engineering expertise with strong fundamentals in architecture, design patterns, reliability, automation, CI/CD strategy, and large scale platform engineering.
• Hands on experience with GitHub SCM, GitHub Actions, GitHub Advanced Security, and building enterprise-wide CI/CD ecosystems.
• Strong knowledge of Groovy-based Jenkins pipelines, reusable shared libraries, and composable pipeline design, with experience modernizing legacy CI/CD tooling.
• SRE-oriented mindset with demonstrated ability to build resilient, observable, automated systems across large engineering organizations.
• Skilled in automation, observability, and platform/infrastructure tooling that improves developer experience and operational excellence.
• Proficient in API/web service design and integration patterns relevant to scalable engineering platforms.
• Experienced in large-scale modernization efforts, driving migrations toward cloud-native, secure, best in class developer platforms aligned with Security and A&T guidance.
• Excellent communicator able to influence senior leadership, simplify complex concepts, and drive cross organizational alignment across engineering, Security, and Architecture & Technology.
• Strong mentor and technical coach with a track record of raising engineering capability through hands on leadership.
• Highly knowledgeable in SDLC, Agile/Scrum, and high velocity delivery models, with proven ability to improve developer productivity and flow.
• Deep understanding of code quality, performance engineering, and developer productivity metrics (e.g., PR cycle time, code churn, commit patterns).
• Proficient in languages such as Java, C#, or similar modern programming languages.
• Experience with AWS/Azure services, IAM, automation patterns, and enterprise cloud security.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes and containerized, ephemeral workload design for CI/CD environments.
• Familiarity with cloud-native observability stacks and infrastructure automation approaches.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams of 12+ engineers while providing enterprise level strategic direction for GitHub SCM governance, repository architecture, permissions models, and branch protection standards.
• Drive the enterprise strategy for GitHub Actions workflows and runner architectures, ensuring scalable, resilient, secure CI/CD aligned with Security and A&T.
• Advance GitHub Advanced Security (CodeQL, Dependabot, secret scanning) by defining secure by default platform patterns in partnership with Security and embedding them into all CI/CD pathways.
• Champion GitHub Copilot and AI assisted engineering at scale, establishing enterprise AI guardrails, adoption frameworks, and measurable productivity outcomes.
• Oversee the strategy, evolution, and modernization of Groovy based Jenkins pipelines, ensuring alignment with long term GitHub first CI/CD direction and A&T architectural principles.
• Define and automate enterprise CI/CD guardrails to enforce security, compliance, and architectural standards across GitHub and Jenkins ecosystems.
• Model engineering excellence and modern CI/CD practices while shaping organizational engineering standards in partnership with Architecture & Technology.
• Mentor and develop engineering talent, raising organizational capability in GitHub workflows, automation, platform engineering, and secure pipeline patterns.
• Identify strategic reuse, platform consolidation, and efficiency opportunities to streamline developer experience and reduce cross organizational friction.
• Partner with product, Security, A&T, and engineering leadership to define multi-year roadmaps and prioritize investments that maximize enterprise impact.
• Champion Mastercard engineering principles and ensure platform alignment with enterprise architecture, governance, and technology direction.
• Represent the platform in engineering guilds and enterprise communities, influencing standards, architecture, and best practices across Mastercard.
• Define and track enterprise platform metrics measuring reliability, adoption, developer productivity, security posture, and strategic value.

Benefits

• insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, 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, pro-rated based on date of hire
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed