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