Vice President, Software Engineering

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
Vice President, Software Engineering
Overview
The Platform Services group is responsible for designing, building, and operating the technology that powers Mastercard's market-facing and core technology platforms. This includes foundational services such as the API Gateway, Event Gateway, and File Transfer Services.
We are seeking a Vice President, Software Engineering to join our St. Louis team, focusing on building and operating our Global File Transfer platform. This platform supports secure, seamless data transfers across Mastercard's global infrastructure-including Mastercard's next-generation switch.
This is an exciting senior engineering leadership role within a globally distributed team, passionate about delivering resilient, scalable solutions to our customers.
Role
In this role, you will:• Drive collaboration across engineering, product management, enterprise functions, and regional business teams.• Define the technical strategy, architecture, design, and execution for delivering an end-to-end File Transfer Management solution that scales with business needs.• Lead engineering teams with a strong focus on nonfunctional requirements-including reliability, performance, scalability, and security.• Champion an operational mindset, ensuring systems are robust, observable, and maintainable.• Drive change management initiatives across engineering and cross-functional teams, balancing innovation with risk mitigation.• Establish and enforce engineering standards, governance models, and operational excellence practices.• Mentor and develop engineering leaders, fostering a culture of accountability, resilience, and continuous improvement.• Manage relationships with external vendors and technology partners, ensuring alignment with Mastercard's engineering standards, delivery timelines, and strategic goals.
All About You
Technology Expertise• Experience working across distributed and mainframe technology stacks• Deep experience with Java and event-driven architectures..• Strong understanding of platform observability, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.• Experience with Java, Shell Scripting, SQL • Mainframe technologies including COBOL and advantage
Ideal Candidate Profile• Proven experience leading large-scale engineering organizations with a focus on platform operations.• Deep understanding of nonfunctional engineering disciplines and how they impact business outcomes.• Demonstrated success in change management, especially in environments undergoing transformation or consolidation.• Strong communicator and systems thinker, able to influence across technical and non-technical audiences.• Experience managing vendor relationships, including contract negotiation, performance oversight, and integration with internal teams.• We value thoughtful execution over rapid iteration, and platform integrity over short-term gains.
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 [email protected] 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.
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.

In 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. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.
Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $212,000 - $339,000 USD