Manager, Software Engineering

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

Manager, Software Engineering

Manager, Software Engineering – Corporate Solutions
Role Overview:
Join Mastercard's Corporate Solutions organization and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of digital B2B payments. As a Manager, Software Engineering, you will lead high-performing engineering teams to build scalable, cloud-native platforms that power seamless, data-driven payment experiences for businesses worldwide.
This role blends people leadership, full-stack engineering, and platform thinking, with a strong emphasis on operational and engineering excellence. You will drive innovation across modern architectures, data platforms, and reporting ecosystems while fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
The role will require you to:
• Lead, mentor, and scale multiple engineering teams, fostering a culture of high performance, ownership, and continuous learning
• Partner closely with product, business, and cross-functional stakeholders to solve real customer pain points and deliver impactful solutions
• Drive end-to-end delivery of cloud-native, full-stack applications and microservices using modern frameworks and architectures
• Champion engineering excellence through best practices in system design, coding standards, testing, and secure development
• Establish and drive operational excellence, improving system reliability, availability, observability, and incident response
• Lead initiatives around cloud migration from on-premise systems, ensuring scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency
• Build and implement automation across the full stack, including CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and deployment workflows
• Oversee BI and reporting platforms, ensuring scalable, high-performance, and business-aligned data solutions
• Drive development of low-latency, high-scale applications, ensuring performance optimization and responsiveness
• Promote adoption of containerized architectures and event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka)
• Manage hiring, coaching, and career development, building diverse, high-performing teams
• Drive engineering productivity, quality metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives across teams
• Collaborate on architecture, scalability, and system design, ensuring robust and future-ready platforms
Required Experiences & Skills:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering
• Strong foundation in Computer Science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, system design)
• Proven experience in building and leading high-performing engineering teams
• Hands-on experience in full-stack development with technologies such as Java and Angular
• Strong experience building cloud-native applications and leading cloud migration from on-premise environments
• Experience designing and developing containerized applications
• Solid experience with event-driven architectures and streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka)
• Proven ability to build and optimize low-latency, high-scale systems
• Strong focus on performance improvements, scalability, and reliability
• Experience working with BI tools/platforms, including designing canned reports in Power BI
• Strong emphasis on operational excellence and engineering excellence
• Experience driving automation across the full stack (build, test, deployment, monitoring)
• Demonstrated ability to solve customer pain points with practical, scalable solutions
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability in driving outcomes end-to-end
• Deep understanding of modern software development practices, including microservices and APIs

Nice to have Experiences & Skills:
• Experience in migrating reporting platforms and customers to Power BI from legacy BI/reporting tools
• Exposure to or hands-on experience with Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or Generative AI technologies
• Experience working with Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)
• Good understanding of WebFOCUS internals
• Familiarity with Power BI internals and performance optimization

Corporate Security Responsibility

• Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.