MasterCard
Senior Vice President, Software Engineering, Mastercard Checkout Services
MasterCard, Tampa, Florida, us, 33646
Our Purpose
We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Title and Summary
Senior Vice President, Software Engineering, Mastercard Checkout Services
Overview
Mastercard Checkout Services (MACS) is a global standard issued by the EMVCo designed to power digital checkout experience that deliver the security, convenience, and control currently offered to consumers in the physical world. Mastercard’s implementation of MACS, built off of EMVCo’s secure remote checkout specifications, enhances guest checkout to offer greater security, convenience and choice for consumers, together with our partners. As Mastercard continues to scale MACS, our goal is to enable great digital payment experiences whenever and wherever consumers shop.
The Senior Vice President, Software Development Engineer provides senior leadership to Mastercard global development teams focusing on development of MACS. This role will oversee the development, management, and continuous improvement of critical, high-impact applications that are central to our strategic goals. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in digital commerce platform engineering, strong leadership capabilities, and a deep understanding of scalable application development. Experience with artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is a significant plus.
Role
• Oversee the design, development, and deployment of the digital commerce platform, ensuring it meets performance, scalability, and reliability standards.
• Ensure the application’s architecture is robust, scalable, and aligns with best practices and industry standards.
• Build and run highly scalable platform components that support our digital commerce platform and the product and customers that leverage the technology.
• Define the structures and operating mechanisms to run your organization while shifting to a data driven and continuous learning culture across your organization
• Inspect the delivery plans and execution metrics using your own tech depth and delivery experience to assess risks and continuously raising the bar
• Define and build your own scorecard to continuously monitor engineering metrics
• Provide visionary leadership to foster innovation and drive the evolution of the digital commerce platform
• Lead, mentor, and manage a diverse team of engineers, architects, and technical managers.
• Build and cultivate strong internal customer relationships to establish engagement models for your team, ensure delivery of quality products in alignment with expectations. Identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with the application and its underlying infrastructure.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory, security, and privacy standards.
• Handle escalations
• Communicate with savviness in dealing with big issuers and someone who understands the cultural variances across different countries. Act as the primary liaison with executive leadership to communicate progress, challenges, and strategic direction.
All About You
• Minimum of 15 years of experience in digital commerce platform engineering or software development, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role.
• Proven track record of successfully managing and scaling high-profile, mission-critical applications at leading technology or financial companies.
• Lead large technical global organizations of 250+ in premium technology organization
• Has the executive presence to work with senior leaders within Mastercard and with our customers, the largest global banks and fintechs in the world
• Establish and maintain strong governance practices to ensure accountability, transparency, and alignment with organizational policies.
• Deep experience in working in services and cloud based technical stack
• Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving abilities and transformation experience highly desirable
• Extensive experience in designing and developing consumer facing eCommerce and Mobile Commerce products is a must have
• Experience managing multiple functional areas within technology such as technical architecture, software development, system testing, and production support.
• Exceptional leadership and team-building skills with the ability to inspire and motivate a diverse team.
• Understands architecture, trade-offs and how to build platforms
• Deep experience in everything automation – QA, deployment, everything
• Experience with software development methodologies, particularly with Agile methodologies. Also, experience in large scale agile development
• Experienced in building mobile applications, Java EE, Spring framework, different JS frameworks such as Vue or Node
• Real world experience of CI/CD, QA automation and in Chef / Puppet deployment environments
• Has great intuition for execution and seeing problems ahead of time
• Experience building highly skilled technology teams and working with vendors
• Experience in the payments domain desirable
• Takes on ownership and accountability
• Takes pride in the products they build
• Move with urgency
• Be action oriented
• Empowers technologists to make decisions
• Believes in continuous improvement and holds a very high bar
#AI3
Mastercard is an 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. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com 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 based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. 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 new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 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, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.
We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Title and Summary
Senior Vice President, Software Engineering, Mastercard Checkout Services
Overview
Mastercard Checkout Services (MACS) is a global standard issued by the EMVCo designed to power digital checkout experience that deliver the security, convenience, and control currently offered to consumers in the physical world. Mastercard’s implementation of MACS, built off of EMVCo’s secure remote checkout specifications, enhances guest checkout to offer greater security, convenience and choice for consumers, together with our partners. As Mastercard continues to scale MACS, our goal is to enable great digital payment experiences whenever and wherever consumers shop.
The Senior Vice President, Software Development Engineer provides senior leadership to Mastercard global development teams focusing on development of MACS. This role will oversee the development, management, and continuous improvement of critical, high-impact applications that are central to our strategic goals. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in digital commerce platform engineering, strong leadership capabilities, and a deep understanding of scalable application development. Experience with artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is a significant plus.
Role
• Oversee the design, development, and deployment of the digital commerce platform, ensuring it meets performance, scalability, and reliability standards.
• Ensure the application’s architecture is robust, scalable, and aligns with best practices and industry standards.
• Build and run highly scalable platform components that support our digital commerce platform and the product and customers that leverage the technology.
• Define the structures and operating mechanisms to run your organization while shifting to a data driven and continuous learning culture across your organization
• Inspect the delivery plans and execution metrics using your own tech depth and delivery experience to assess risks and continuously raising the bar
• Define and build your own scorecard to continuously monitor engineering metrics
• Provide visionary leadership to foster innovation and drive the evolution of the digital commerce platform
• Lead, mentor, and manage a diverse team of engineers, architects, and technical managers.
• Build and cultivate strong internal customer relationships to establish engagement models for your team, ensure delivery of quality products in alignment with expectations. Identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with the application and its underlying infrastructure.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory, security, and privacy standards.
• Handle escalations
• Communicate with savviness in dealing with big issuers and someone who understands the cultural variances across different countries. Act as the primary liaison with executive leadership to communicate progress, challenges, and strategic direction.
All About You
• Minimum of 15 years of experience in digital commerce platform engineering or software development, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role.
• Proven track record of successfully managing and scaling high-profile, mission-critical applications at leading technology or financial companies.
• Lead large technical global organizations of 250+ in premium technology organization
• Has the executive presence to work with senior leaders within Mastercard and with our customers, the largest global banks and fintechs in the world
• Establish and maintain strong governance practices to ensure accountability, transparency, and alignment with organizational policies.
• Deep experience in working in services and cloud based technical stack
• Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving abilities and transformation experience highly desirable
• Extensive experience in designing and developing consumer facing eCommerce and Mobile Commerce products is a must have
• Experience managing multiple functional areas within technology such as technical architecture, software development, system testing, and production support.
• Exceptional leadership and team-building skills with the ability to inspire and motivate a diverse team.
• Understands architecture, trade-offs and how to build platforms
• Deep experience in everything automation – QA, deployment, everything
• Experience with software development methodologies, particularly with Agile methodologies. Also, experience in large scale agile development
• Experienced in building mobile applications, Java EE, Spring framework, different JS frameworks such as Vue or Node
• Real world experience of CI/CD, QA automation and in Chef / Puppet deployment environments
• Has great intuition for execution and seeing problems ahead of time
• Experience building highly skilled technology teams and working with vendors
• Experience in the payments domain desirable
• Takes on ownership and accountability
• Takes pride in the products they build
• Move with urgency
• Be action oriented
• Empowers technologists to make decisions
• Believes in continuous improvement and holds a very high bar
#AI3
Mastercard is an 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. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com 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 based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. 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 new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 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, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.