Senior Vice President, Software Engineering, Mastercard Checkout Services

Our Purpose

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Senior Vice President, Software Engineering, Mastercard Checkout Services Overview

Mastercard Checkout Services (MACS) is a global standard issued by the EMVCo designed to power digital checkout experiences that deliver the security, convenience, and control currently offered to consumers in the physical world. Mastercard’s implementation of MACS, built off of EMVCo’s secure remote checkout specifications, enhances guest checkout to offer greater security, convenience, and choice for consumers, together with our partners. As Mastercard continues to scale MACS, our goal is to enable great digital payment experiences whenever and wherever consumers shop.

The Senior Vice President, Software Development Engineer provides senior leadership to Mastercard global development teams focusing on the development of MACS. This role will oversee the development, management, and continuous improvement of critical, high-impact applications that are central to our strategic goals. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in digital commerce platform engineering, strong leadership capabilities, and a deep understanding of scalable application development. Experience with artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is a significant plus.

Role

1. Oversee the design, development, and deployment of the digital commerce platform, ensuring it meets performance, scalability, and reliability standards.
2. Ensure the application’s architecture is robust, scalable, and aligns with best practices and industry standards.
3. Build and run highly scalable platform components that support our digital commerce platform and the product and customers that leverage the technology.
4. Define the structures and operating mechanisms to run your organization while shifting to a data-driven and continuous learning culture across your organization.
5. Inspect the delivery plans and execution metrics using your own tech depth and delivery experience to assess risks and continuously raise the bar.
6. Define and build your own scorecard to continuously monitor engineering metrics.
7. Provide visionary leadership to foster innovation and drive the evolution of the digital commerce platform.
8. Lead, mentor, and manage a diverse team of engineers, architects, and technical managers.
9. Build and cultivate strong internal customer relationships to establish engagement models for your team, ensure delivery of quality products in alignment with expectations. Identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with the application and its underlying infrastructure.
10. Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory, security, and privacy standards.
11. Handle escalations.
12. Communicate with savviness in dealing with big issuers and someone who understands the cultural variances across different countries. Act as the primary liaison with executive leadership to communicate progress, challenges, and strategic direction.

All About You

1. Minimum of 15 years of experience in digital commerce platform engineering or software development, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role.
2. Proven track record of successfully managing and scaling high-profile, mission-critical applications at leading technology or financial companies.
3. Lead large technical global organizations of 250+ in premium technology organization.
4. Has the executive presence to work with senior leaders within Mastercard and with our customers, the largest global banks and fintechs in the world.
5. Establish and maintain strong governance practices to ensure accountability, transparency, and alignment with organizational policies.
6. Deep experience in working in services and cloud-based technical stack.
7. Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving abilities, and transformation experience highly desirable.
8. Extensive experience in designing and developing consumer-facing eCommerce and Mobile Commerce products is a must-have.
9. Experience managing multiple functional areas within technology such as technical architecture, software development, system testing, and production support.
10. Exceptional leadership and team-building skills with the ability to inspire and motivate a diverse team.
11. Understands architecture, trade-offs, and how to build platforms.
12. Deep experience in everything automation – QA, deployment, everything.
13. Experience with software development methodologies, particularly with Agile methodologies. Also, experience in large scale agile development.
14. Experienced in building mobile applications, Java EE, Spring framework, different JS frameworks such as Vue or Node.
15. Real-world experience of CI/CD, QA automation, and in Chef / Puppet deployment environments.
16. Has great intuition for execution and seeing problems ahead of time.
17. Experience building highly skilled technology teams and working with vendors.
18. Experience in the payments domain desirable.
19. Takes on ownership and accountability.
20. Takes pride in the products they build.
21. Move with urgency.
22. Be action-oriented.
23. Empowers technologists to make decisions.
24. Believes in continuous improvement and holds a very high bar.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• 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.