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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\nVice President Platform EngineeringOverviewMSBX (Mastercard Secure Build Experience) is driving the next generation of the software engineering experience for more than 11,000 engineers globally. Our mission is to provide a world-class, secure, resilient, and scalable platform ecosystem that enables teams to innovate rapidly while maintaining Mastercard's highest standards for reliability, security, and compliance.\nThe Vice President, Platform Engineering will define and execute enterprise platform engineering strategy across CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, container ecosystems, infrastructure automation, and secure software delivery. This leader will establish engineering standards, modernize enterprise platform capabilities, accelerate cloud-native adoption, and drive measurable improvements in developer productivity, operational excellence, reliability, and security. This role requires strong people leadership, technical depth, strategic vision, and enterprise influence. The successful candidate will build and develop high-performing engineering teams, partner across Security, Architecture & Technology, product, and engineering organizations, and guide platform transformation initiatives across Mastercard.\nRole\nPlatform Strategy & Architecture\nDefine and execute the enterprise platform engineering strategy supporting software delivery, cloud infrastructure, container platforms, infrastructure automation, developer productivity, and secure engineering practices.\nDrive 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.\nEstablish enterprise standards and governance for CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, reusable platform capabilities, cloud-native architectures, and secure-by-default engineering practices.\nAnticipate emerging technology trends and identify opportunities to improve engineering efficiency, quality, reliability, and operational excellence.\nPartner with Architecture & Technology to define platform roadmaps and long-term technology direction.\nCloud, Infrastructure & Platform Engineering\nLead platform modernization initiatives that advance cloud-native engineering capabilities across AWS, Azure, and enterprise infrastructure environments.\nEstablish standards for scalable, resilient, cost-efficient cloud infrastructure and platform services.\nDrive adoption of Infrastructure as Code, policy-as-code, automated governance, and reusable infrastructure patterns.\nDefine enterprise approaches for container platforms, Kubernetes operations, workload orchestration, platform reliability, observability, and capacity management.\nEnsure platform designs support fault tolerance, scalability, distributed systems performance, and operational resilience.\nSoftware Delivery & Engineering Excellence\nAdvance application security within the software delivery lifecycle including SAST, SCA, secret scanning, container security, Infrastructure as Code scanning, and automated compliance controls.\nDefine and automate enterprise CI/CD guardrails that consistently enforce security, compliance, architectural, and operational standards.\nChampion AI-assisted engineering, establishing governance frameworks, adoption strategies, productivity standards, and measurable quality outcomes.\nEstablish software engineering standards covering development practices, code quality, testing, performance engineering, API architectures, and microservices design.\nPromote engineering excellence through reusable platform patterns, automation, standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives.\nReliability, Security & Operations\nEstablish enterprise standards for observability, service reliability, incident readiness, operational excellence, and platform health.\nPartner with Security to identify, analyze, and embed security requirements into platform solutions and engineering workflows.\nDrive secure-by-default platform capabilities that proactively reduce risk and improve developer adoption.\nDefine and monitor platform KPIs, including reliability, security posture, adoption, developer productivity, service availability, and business value realization.\nLeadership & Organizational Development\nBuild, lead, and develop diverse, high-performing teams that deliver innovative platform engineering solutions.\nAttract, hire, coach, mentor, and retain engineering talent while developing future engineering leaders.\nCreate a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, continuous learning, and customer focus.\nLead organizational change initiatives, helping teams navigate platform transformation and evolving ways of working.\nRaise organizational capability through coaching, technical mentorship, and leadership development programs.\nEnterprise Partnership & Influence\nPartner with Product, Security, Architecture & Technology, and Engineering leaders to prioritize investments and maximize enterprise impact.\nRepresent Platform Engineering in enterprise governance forums, engineering communities, and architecture councils.\nInfluence enterprise engineering standards, technology decisions, and strategic platform direction.\nAll About You\nLeadership Experience\n12+ years of progressive engineering experience with 5+ years leading engineering organizations at enterprise scale.\nDemonstrated success building, leading, and developing high-performing engineering teams.\nExperience managing managers and senior technical leaders within complex organizations.\nProven ability to influence executive stakeholders and drive enterprise-wide technology initiatives.\nStrong track record leading large-scale modernization, transformation, and organizational change efforts.\nTechnical Expertise\nDeep expertise in Platform Engineering, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, automation, and enterprise software delivery platforms.\nExtensive experience designing and operating large-scale CI/CD ecosystems, pipeline-as-code frameworks, and software development platforms.\nStrong knowledge of cloud infrastructure engineering across AWS, Azure, or comparable enterprise cloud environments.\nExperience establishing Infrastructure as Code standards using modern automation and configuration management approaches.\nExpertise with Kubernetes, container platforms, workload orchestration, and cloud-native platform operations.\nStrong understanding of distributed systems, microservices architectures, API platforms, observability, resiliency, and performance engineering.\nExperience implementing enterprise security controls and integrating security throughout the software delivery lifecycle.\nAdvanced knowledge of automation tooling, operating systems, platform infrastructure, and developer productivity solutions.\nProficiency with modern programming languages such as Java, C#, Go, Python, or equivalent technologies.\nBusiness & Strategic Capabilities\nAbility to define multi-year platform strategies aligned to business objectives.\nStrong analytical, communication, and executive presentation skills.\nExperience defining metrics, KPIs, and success measures for engineering organizations.\n• Demonstrated ability to balance innovation, operational excellence, security, cost efficiency, and customer outcomes.Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact  and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.\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.\n\nIn line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. 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