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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

Director, Software Engineering

Overview
The Transfer Solutions group is responsible for designing, building, and operating the technology that powers Mastercard’s next-generation payment applications—domestic, Cross–Border, and Bill Payments.
We are seeking a Director, Software Engineering, to join our Dublin team, focusing on building and operating our Cross-Border payments platform, specifically in the Treasury Management domain. We build software that can be deployed on private or public cloud. In this role, you will design and build software that scales to global markets, enabling secure, seamless, and always available cross-border payments. This is an exciting engineering leadership role working with a global team passionate about the solutions we deliver to our customers.

Role
In this role, you will drive collaboration across engineering, product management, enterprise functions, and regional business teams. You will also lead by defining the technical strategy, architecture, design, and execution to achieve outcomes iteratively.
As a Director of Software Engineering, you will:
Strategic Leadership & Execution
• Define and drive the engineering strategy in alignment with company objectives.
• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, scalable software products on time and within budget
• Champion engineering best practices, including DevOps, CI/CD, and agile methodologies.
Identify and mitigate technical and delivery risks across programs and initiatives.

People Leadership & Coaching
• Build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering teams through career development, coaching, and performance management.
• Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Set clear goals and expectations and provide regular feedback and development plans.

Operational Excellence
• Own the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle, from requirements through release and support.
• Continuously improve engineering processes, tools, and metrics to optimize team performance and product quality.
• Ensure operational readiness, including incident response, monitoring, and service reliability.

Collaboration & Communication
• Partner with Product, Operations, and Business stakeholders to define scope, priorities, and roadmaps.
• Communicate technical vision and progress to executive leadership and non-technical stakeholders.
• Represent engineering in strategic planning and budgeting discussions.


Skills

Experience building and operating scalable global platforms with high throughput with 5 9’s availability.
In-depth knowledge of Java, Spring framework, persistence and messaging technologies, and testing methodologies and tools.
In-depth knowledge of Public Cloud platforms, containers, and container orchestration.
Good working knowledge of cryptography functions and PKI infrastructure.

All About You
Hands-on technical leader who consistently demonstrates leadership, builds trust, focuses on talent development and inspires the team.
Must be high-energy, detail-oriented and proactive with the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment.
Have a passion for continuous learning and enjoy challenging opportunities.
Exceptional leadership skills with the ability to inspire and influence across all levels of the organization.
Experience presenting to executive audiences and driving alignment across diverse stakeholders.
Drives outcomes through strong commitment to timely delivery of key objectives.
Have strong decision-making skills, lead retrospection and continually improve as a result.
Strong grasp of software operations, including monitoring, incident management, and performance tuning.
Experience managing budgets, forecasting, and resource planning.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes 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.