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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, Software EngineeringOverviewDecision Stream is Mastercard's next-generation AI-native decisioning platform, designed to power intelligent, real-time decisions across fraud, authentication, payments, and risk. Built with a startup mindset and enterprise-scale ambition, the platform combines innovation, speed, and engineering excellence to redefine decisioning across Mastercard's global ecosystem.\nWe are seeking a visionary and hands-on VP of Software Engineering to help build and scale the platform. This leader will partner closely with Product, Architecture, AI, and Platform Engineering teams to drive technology strategy, architecture, engineering execution, and organizational growth.\nWhat You'll Do\nLead Through Technical Excellence\nServe as a senior technology leader and role model for engineering teams.\nDrive architecture, design, and technology decisions across distributed systems, streaming, AI, and cloud-native platforms.\nEngage deeply with engineers, architects, and product leaders to solve complex technical challenges.\nInfluence engineering standards, software quality, and operational excellence.\nBuild and Scale the Platform\nHelp shape and deliver a highly scalable, resilient, and secure decisioning platform operating at Mastercard scale.\nBalance long-term platform vision with day-to-day execution.\nDrive simplicity, reliability, performance, and continuous innovation.\nBuild High-Performing Teams\nRecruit, mentor, and develop exceptional engineering talent.\nFoster a culture of ownership, technical curiosity, accountability, and collaboration.\nBuild strong technical leadership across engineering teams.\nDeliver Business Outcomes\nPartner closely with Product and business stakeholders to align engineering investments with customer and business value.\nDrive execution from concept through production adoption.\nEstablish operational rhythms, engineering metrics, and continuous improvement practices.\nQualifications\nRequired\nProven experience leading software engineering teams building large-scale distributed platforms.\nStrong hands-on technical background in cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, data platforms, and event-driven systems.\nDemonstrated ability to influence architecture and engage deeply in technical design discussions.\nTrack record delivering highly available, resilient, and mission-critical systems at scale.\nStrong collaboration, communication, and leadership skills.\nPreferred\nExperience with AI/ML platforms and intelligent decisioning systems.\nExperience with technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Kubernetes, and modern cloud platforms.\nBackground in payments, fraud, risk, or financial services.\nExperience building new platforms, products, or transformational technology initiatives.\nLeadership Expectations\nOperate as a builder, innovator, and servant leader.\nCombine strategic thinking with hands-on technical engagement.\nDemonstrate curiosity, ownership, and a bias for action.\nLead through technical credibility, coaching, and execution excellence.\nInspire teams to solve hard problems and deliver meaningful business outcomes.\n\"Expected to regularly engage in architecture reviews, design discussions, technology trade-off decisions, and critical problem-solving, while helping define the long-term technology vision for Decision Stream.\"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. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: 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, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. 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