Overview

Vice President, Software Engineering Overview

The Transfer Solutions group is responsible for designing, building, and operating the technology that powers Mastercard’s next-generation payment applications—domestic, Cross–Border, and Bill Payments. We are seeking a Vice President, Software Engineering, to join our Dublin team, focusing on building and operating our Cross-Border payments platform, specifically in the Treasury Management domain. We build software that can be deployed on private or public cloud. In this role, you will design and build software that scales to global markets, enabling secure, seamless, always available Cross-Border payments. This is an exciting senior engineering leadership role working with a global team passionate about the solutions we deliver to our customers.

Role

In this role, you will drive collaboration across engineering, product management, enterprise functions, and regional business teams. You will also lead by defining the technical strategy, architecture, design, and execution to deliver an end-to-end Treasury Management solution that scales with business.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership & Execution: Provide technical and domain leadership to align the engineering strategy with the business objectives, delivering on a multi-year roadmap that provides incremental value.
• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, scalable software products that work well in the broader cross-border services ecosystem.
• Champion engineering best practices, with a strong focus on the product development lifecycle, and continuous delivery, while developing a framework that identifies and mitigates technical and delivery risks across programs and initiatives.
• People Leadership & Coaching: Build, mentor, and retain high-performing global engineering teams through career development, coaching, and performance management.
• Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, trust, and continuous learning.
• Set clear goals and expectations and provide regular feedback and development plans.
• Operational Excellence: Own the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle, from requirements through release and support.
• Continuously improve engineering processes, tools, and metrics to optimize team performance and product quality.
• Ensure operational readiness, including incident response, monitoring, and service reliability.
• Collaboration & Communication: Partner with Product, Operations, and Business stakeholders to define scope, priorities, and roadmaps.
• Communicate technical vision and progress to executive leadership and non-technical stakeholders.
• Own the engineering budget, driving efficient financial operations.

Skills

• Product engineering experience that demonstrates thought-leadership and cross-functional influence with a successful track record of enabling business through engineering excellence and technical innovation.
• Experience in leading the initiation and formation of large global projects, including architecting, estimating, planning, implementing, and operating, and building teams across multiple geographies and functions.
• In-depth knowledge of Java, Spring framework, persistence and messaging technologies, and testing methodologies and tools.
• In-depth knowledge of Public Cloud platforms, containers, and container orchestration.
• Good working knowledge of cryptography functions and PKI infrastructure.
• Performance engineering experience to ensure applications are built to scale, run, and perform for varying demands.

All About You

• Experienced technical leader who builds trust, focuses on talent development, inspires the team, and enjoys working with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, work well with ambiguity, competing priorities, and have a high degree of ownership and autonomy.
• Have a passion for continuous learning and enjoy challenging opportunities.
• Experience presenting to executive audiences and driving alignment across diverse stakeholders.
• Drives business outcomes through OKRs with a focus on timely delivery.
• Have strong decision-making skills, significant experience managing budgets, forecasting, and resource planning.

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.