# Manager, Software Engineering (Sanction Service)

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Vancouver
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $127,000 - $203,000 CAD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to lead the development and evolution of its Sanctions Screening solutions.

The Sanctions Screening solutions help financial institutions assess sanctions risk for payment transactions in real-time, supporting regulatory compliance, risk management, and secure global payment processing.

This role is a hybrid of roughly 70% technical leadership and 30% people management.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Technical Leadership (70%)**

- Own the technical direction, architecture, and delivery strategy for the Sanctions Service platform, built in Java and C++ primarily.

- Lead the design and implementation of scalable, reliable, and secure software solutions meeting enterprise standards.

- Drive engineering excellence through design reviews, code quality, operational readiness, and best practices.

- Partner with Product, Architecture, Compliance, and Operations teams to deliver business-critical capabilities.

- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.

- Drive modernization efforts focused on scalability, resilience, cloud readiness, and operational efficiency.

- Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex engineering and production challenges.

**AI & Agentic Engineering**

- Define and execute a strategy for adopting AI-assisted and agentic engineering capabilities across the software development lifecycle.

- Leverage AI tools to improve software delivery, testing, operational support, documentation, and developer productivity.

- Identify opportunities to automate engineering workflows and reduce operational overhead.

- Establish guardrails and governance for responsible AI adoption, including security, transparency, and human oversight.

- Foster a culture of experimentation and innovation while maintaining strong compliance and risk controls.

**People Leadership (30%)**

- Lead and develop a high-performing team of software engineers.

- Conduct regular coaching, career development discussions, and performance management activities.

- Create an inclusive, accountable, and psychologically safe team culture.

- Partner with recruiting to attract, retain, and develop top engineering talent.

- Drive planning, prioritization, and execution of team roadmaps and delivery commitments.

- Establish clear goals, expectations, and ownership across the team.

**Qualifications Required**

- Proven experience leading software engineering teams and delivering large-scale enterprise software solutions.

- Strong technical background with experience designing distributed, highly available systems.

- Demonstrated ability to balance hands-on technical leadership with people management responsibilities.

- Experience managing product roadmaps, business priorities, engineering deliverables, and technical risks.

- Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills.

- Experience with Agile software development and modern engineering practices.

- Passion for mentoring engineers and building high-performing teams.

**Preferred**

- Experience in payments, financial services, compliance, fraud, sanctions screening, or risk management.

- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools, agentic workflows, or intelligent automation solutions.

- Experience operating services in regulated, security-sensitive environments.

- Knowledge of cloud platforms, DevOps practices, and modern observability tooling.

- Bachelor’s in computer science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

**What Success Looks Like**

- A high-performing engineering team with strong engagement, accountability, and technical excellence.

- Predictable delivery of secure, scalable, and reliable Sanctions Service capabilities.

- Successful adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices.

- Measurable improvements in platform resilience, operational efficiency, and customer outcomes.

- Strong alignment across engineering, product, compliance, and operational stakeholders.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- C++
- Agile software development
- cloud platforms
- DevOps practices
- modern observability tooling

### Nice to have
- payments
- financial services
- compliance
- fraud
- sanctions screening
- risk management
- AI-assisted development tools
- agentic workflows
- intelligent automation solutions

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