# Vice President Platform Engineering

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: O'Fallon, Missouri
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $200,000 - $330,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard is seeking a Vice President of Platform Engineering to lead the development of a world-class platform ecosystem for over 11,000 engineers globally. The successful candidate will define and execute the enterprise platform engineering strategy across CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, container ecosystems, infrastructure automation, and secure software delivery.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Define and execute the enterprise platform engineering strategy supporting software delivery, cloud infrastructure, container platforms, infrastructure automation, developer productivity, and secure engineering practices.

- Drive the enterprise strategy for pipeline-as-code workflows, build runner/agent architectures, and software delivery platforms, ensuring they are scalable, resilient, secure, and aligned with Security and Architecture & Technology standards.

- Establish enterprise standards and governance for CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, reusable platform capabilities, cloud-native architectures, and secure-by-default engineering practices.

- Anticipate emerging technology trends and identify opportunities to improve engineering efficiency, quality, reliability, and operational excellence.

- Partner with Architecture & Technology to define platform roadmaps and long-term technology direction.

**Requirements:**

- 12+ years of progressive engineering experience with 5+ years leading engineering organizations at enterprise scale.

- Demonstrated success building, leading, and developing high-performing engineering teams.

- Experience managing managers and senior technical leaders within complex organizations.

- Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and drive enterprise-wide technology initiatives.

- Strong track record leading large-scale modernization, transformation, and organizational change efforts.

**Benefits:**

- Competitive base salary

- Annual bonus or commissions

- 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

- 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
- Platform Engineering
- DevOps
- cloud infrastructure
- automation
- enterprise software delivery platforms
- Kubernetes
- container platforms
- workload orchestration
- cloud-native platform operations
- distributed systems
- microservices architectures
- API platforms
- observability
- resiliency
- performance engineering

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