Director, Software Engineering - Java

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. 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.

Title and Summary

The Director, Software Engineering will lead the engineering strategy, delivery, and operational excellence for Mastercard’s Next Generation File Transfer (NGFT) platform-our strategic solution for modernizing file transfer across global products and regions.

This role is accountable for ensuring platform stability, scalability, and regulatory compliance, while enabling the migration from legacy systems and supporting critical business flows such as clearing and settlement.

Role

Major Accountabilities

Own end-to-end delivery and health of the NGFT platform, including core transfer engine, orchestration, and supporting services.

Define and execute the engineering strategy and roadmap, balancing platform stability with long-term modernization

Lead and develop multiple engineering teams and managers across global locations

Drive operational excellence, including platform observability, incident management, and resiliency improvements.

Ensure architecture supports scalability, modularity, and high availability across multi-region deployments.

Partner with Product, TPM, SRE, and business stakeholders to deliver critical platform capabilities and migrations

Represent engineering in executive forums, communicating risks, progress, and strategic direction

Establish and enforce engineering best practices across SDLC, testing, and security.

Leadership & Team Management

Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization, including managers and senior technical leaders

Drive a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement

Coach and mentor leaders to improve engineering quality, delivery predictability, and talent development

All About You

Experience

Extensive experience in software engineering with progressive leadership (managing managers)

Proven success leading large-scale, mission-critical platforms or infrastructure systems

Experience in distributed systems, high-availability environments, and regulated industries

Technical Expertise

Strong understanding of:

Distributed and microservices-based architectures

Event-driven and reactive systems

File transfer and integration technologies (e.g., HTTP, SFTP)

Scalability, performance, and resiliency engineering

Experience driving observability, automation, and reliability engineering practices

Align global teams to execute against shared platform priorities and timelines

Leadership Skills

Strategic mindset with ability to balance long-term vision and short-term execution

Strong decision-making in high-pressure, ambiguous environments.

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including executive engagement

Ability to influence across cross-functional and geographically distributed teams

Corporate Security Responsibility

All 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:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.