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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.\nTitle and Summary\nDirector, Software EngineeringWho is Mastercard?Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.\nOur decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.\nOverview\nPayments Network Technology is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead engineering teams delivering secure, reliable, and scalable payment-network capabilities. The role combines people leadership, technology direction, delivery accountability, and cross-functional partnership.\nRoles and Responsibilities\nLead and develop multiple engineering teams, including managers and senior technical leaders.\nSet engineering direction aligned with product priorities, architecture standards, resiliency, security, and operational objectives.\nOwn delivery outcomes across a portfolio of services, balancing customer commitments, technical investment, risk, and capacity.\nBuild an inclusive, accountable engineering culture through hiring, coaching, succession planning, and career development.\nPartner with Product Management, Architecture, Operations, Security, and dependent programs to resolve priorities and delivery risks.\nEstablish measurable standards for quality, automation, release readiness, reliability, and continuous improvement.\nCommunicate portfolio status, risks, trade-offs, and decisions to senior leadership.\nEssential Skills\nExperience leading managers and multiple software engineering teams.\nExperience with large-scale, highly available platforms and modern software engineering practices.\nWorking knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, cloud-native delivery, CI/CD, and observability.\nAbility to translate business strategy into executable engineering plans and organizational priorities.\nBachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\nAll About You\nExperience working in Agile delivery environments and across the software development lifecycle.\nClear communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.\nAbility to work with globally distributed product, engineering, architecture, operations, and business teams.\nExperience managing two or more software development teams.\nProven experience leading complex technology solutions from concept through design, delivery, and production adoption.\nExperience building resilient, operable solutions, with operational readiness considered from the start of development.\nPeople-management experience covering performance management, conflict resolution, coaching, and career development planning.\n• Payments or financial-services domain knowledge is preferred.\nCorporate Security Responsibility\nAll activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:\nAbide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;\n\nEnsure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;\n\nReport any suspected information security violation or breach, and\n\nComplete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4338,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cards & Card Issuing","Payment Processing & Gateways"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T18:17:25Z"}],"liveness":{"score":80,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.888,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":11,"expected_fill_days":20,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-26T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/mastercard-director-software-engineering-9","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/mastercard-director-software-engineering-9.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-27T01:16:28Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1139,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3861,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-28T00:00:00Z"}}}