Vice President, Software Engineering at Mastercard

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 Role Overview Mastercard is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead the Developer Workbench, a strategic platform designed to deliver a unified, AI-enabled, end-to-end software engineering experience across the enterprise. The Developer Workbench will bring together core engineering products, developer tools, AI-assisted coding capabilities, development environments, testing workflows, deployment pipelines, cloud development experiences, and developer insights into one cohesive platform. This leader will be accountable for transforming the Workbench from a set of disconnected tools and services into a productized developer experience that improves productivity, accelerates onboarding, increases adoption of modern engineering capabilities, and strengthens governance across the software development lifecycle. This is a senior engineering leadership role for a builder, integrator, and enterprise change leader who can operate across product, engineering, architecture, security, finance, learning, and senior technology leadership. ________________________________________ Key Responsibilities Lead the Developer Workbench Engineering Strategy • Define and execute the engineering strategy for the Developer Workbench. • Establish the technical architecture, operating model, and roadmap for a unified developer platform. • Integrate developer tooling, engineering workflows, quality systems, AI coding capabilities, cloud and local development environments, and developer insights into a seamless end-to-end experience. • Ensure the platform is scalable, secure, reliable, measurable, and aligned with enterprise engineering standards. Build a Unified Developer Experience • Create a frictionless developer journey from onboarding through coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement. • Reduce manual setup, inconsistent tooling, and duplicated effort across engineering teams. • Partner with product teams to integrate capabilities across the MSBX product suite, and other engineering platforms. • Establish feedback mechanisms to continuously understand developer needs and improve the overall experience. Drive AI-Native Engineering Capabilities • Lead the adoption and integration of AI-assisted software engineering tools and agentic development capabilities. • Define governance, security, usage, enablement, and measurement models for AI coding assistants. • Partner with security, risk, compliance, and architecture teams to ensure responsible and secure use of AI across the software development lifecycle. • Measure the effectiveness of AI-enabled development through adoption, productivity, quality, and developer satisfaction metrics. Own Tooling Governance and Platform Stewardship • Establish a governance model for developer tools. • Manage tooling standards, lifecycle, versioning, adoption, enablement, and rationalization. • Ensure that developer tools are maintained, current, secure, and consistently supported. • Partner with finance and technology leaders to provide transparency into tool value, adoption, cost, and productivity impact. Build and Lead a High-Performing Engineering Organization • Recruit, develop, and lead a team of engineers, architects, platform specialists, technical program leaders, and developer experience professionals. • Build a culture of customer obsession, engineering excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement. • Ensure the team operates as a product organization with clear priorities, measurable outcomes, and strong stakeholder engagement. • Develop talent and leadership capacity within the MSBX organization. Partner Across the Enterprise • Collaborate with CTOs, engineering leaders, product leaders, security, architecture, operations, finance, and learning teams. • Influence senior stakeholders and align investment decisions with business value. • Communicate strategy, progress, risks, and outcomes to executive audiences. • Represent the Developer Workbench as a strategic enabler of modern software engineering at Mastercard. ________________________________________ Required Qualifications • 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience. • 8+ years of experience leading large engineering teams or platform engineering organizations. • Proven experience building or scaling developer platforms, internal engineering platforms, DevEx organizations, cloud platforms, DevOps platforms, or engineering productivity functions. • Strong understanding of modern software development practices, CI/CD, cloud-native architecture, platform engineering, developer tooling, quality engineering, and secure software delivery. • Experience leading complex enterprise technology transformations in a matrixed environment. • Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and align cross-functional stakeholders. • Strong track record of building high-performing teams and developing engineering leaders. • Experience using data, telemetry, and metrics to improve engineering productivity and platform adoption. ________________________________________ Preferred Qualifications • Experience with AI-assisted software development tools and emerging agentic engineering workflows. • Experience integrating developer tools across IDEs, source control, CI/CD, testing, deployment, observability, and cloud environments. • Background in developer experience, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, cloud enginee