# Director, Software Engineering

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Arlington, Virginia
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $195,000 - $323,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard Business & Market Insights (B&MI) Capabilities & Data (C&D) is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead the Product Acceleration Engineering Pillar. The ideal candidate is a creative and resourceful technology leader with proven ability to build, motivate, and professionally develop high performing teams of talented software engineers.

Responsibilities:

- Lead and scale multiple engineering teams focused on product acceleration, platform services, data capabilities, and developer enablement.

- Partner closely with product management and tech leads to define the long and short term roadmaps and measurable KPIs for the Product Acceleration pillar.

- Establish the efficient and effective operating and organizing model needed to deliver the Product Acceleration objectives.

- Work with enterprise partners to identify and find creative solutions to hurdles in governance and process that increase time to market for new products.

- Lead, coach, and develop engineers and engineering managers across global, cross-functional teams.

- Identify, assess, and mitigate technical risks in collaboration with senior technology leaders.

- Foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, and continuous technical learning.

- Set high standards for engineering excellence and elevate team performance.

- Navigate complex cross-team dependencies and drive alignment across stakeholders.

- Promote agile ways of working and enable teams to adapt quickly to changing priorities and insights.

- Engage and influence senior stakeholders on technology direction and product decisions.

- Anticipate and plan for future scaling needs aligned with business growth and customer demand.

Requirements:

- Proven experience as an Engineering leader in an agile, production-scale environment.

- Experience managing managers and experienced individual technical contributors with a strong focus on coaching and mentoring.

- Outcome driven; comfortable setting measurable, data driven objectives and holding teams accountable.

- Hands-on knowledge of modern technologies such as AWS, Databricks, Java, Spring Boot, .NET/C#, React, Python, Spark, and related cloud-native platforms.

- Strong track record of defining architecture, design, and delivery of large-scale, multi-team systems.

- Strong technical foundation with ability to quickly learn and adopt new technologies.

- Experience improving engineering organizations, structures, and delivery processes at scale.

- Ability to influence across teams, functions, and geographies to drive technical alignment.

- Strong understanding of SDLC methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and when to apply them.

- Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence executive, business, and technical stakeholders.

- Strong analytical thinking and decision-making capabilities in ambiguous and complex environments.

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.

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

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- Databricks
- Java
- Spring Boot
- .NET/C#
- React
- Python
- Spark
- Scrum
- Kanban
- SAFe

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