Vice President, Software Engineering-R-246242

MasterCard; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Vice President of Software Engineering to lead their innovative AI and decisioning product team. This role is pivotal in driving intelligent decision-making across a vast ecosystem, ensuring the delivery of high-quality software platforms that process billions of transactions daily. The ideal candidate will possess a strong leadership presence, with a proven track record in managing large engineering teams and developing complex distributed systems. Join a forward-thinking company where your contributions will significantly impact the future of digital payments and empower people globally.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading large engineering teams (50+ engineers).
• Expertise in building complex high-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Rules Decision Tooling platform for intelligent decisioning.
• Set technical vision and strategy, aligning with business objectives.
• Champion innovation and ensure engineering excellence.

Skills

Leadership

Relationship Management

Agile Development

Distributed Systems

Real-time Data Stream Solutions

Engineering Excellence

Coaching and Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's Degree (preferred)

Tools

Agile Methodologies

SDLC Methodologies

Job description

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 AI & Decision Product Enablement team enables industry-leading AI and decisioning-based products for market-facing programs with business agility and delivers with resiliency, availability, and global scale. We are looking for a Vice President of Software Engineering to lead our Rules Decision Tooling internal product team along with other products for the Decision Management Program (DMP). DMP products deliver industry-leading intelligence with business agility at global scale to power over 40 market-facing products across the MA network while processing billions of transactions per day. The ideal candidate is highly motivated, intellectually curious, a strategic thinker, a strong partner, and leader.

Role

1. Lead and scale the Rules Decision Tooling platform—a critical enabler for intelligent, real-time decisioning across Mastercard’s ecosystem.
2. Set the technical vision and execution strategy, aligning closely with business and product stakeholders.
3. Responsible for business execution including objective setting, performance management, recruiting, and coaching.
4. Own all aspects of delivery, from roadmap definition and execution to performance management, hiring, and coaching of engineering talent.
5. Champion innovation, encourage a culture of experimentation.
6. Collaborate with product leaders and enterprise architects to drive alignment between technology capabilities and strategic business objectives.
7. Ensure engineering excellence across your organization by setting standards for code quality, architecture, reliability, and operational efficiency.
8. Define and implement metrics to monitor platform scalability, resiliency, and engineering productivity.

All About You

1. Professional presence, excellent relationship management skills, self-motivated and effectively works with others at all levels of the organization including senior leaders, executive management, and external clients.
2. Drive for Results: built a strong and capable organization to deliver on commitments.
3. Have been responsible for complex high-scale distributed systems, decision engines, and working with or building real-time data stream solutions.
4. Experienced building supportable platforms serving multiple users (e.g., end customers, internal business operations, technical management).
5. Are a respected technologist and proven leadership development coach, as evidenced by the high quality of their recruiting efforts and direct reports.
6. Have led an engineering organization of at least 50 engineers within a successful technology company.
7. Have a proven ability to lead, inspire and engage a large team of highly professional and technical engineering professionals to greater levels of collaboration, development, and performance.
8. Have a track record of establishing engineering rigor and rapidly delivering world-class consumer software platforms and applications.
9. Expertise with large-scale distributed systems and platforms.
10. Are adept with lightweight processes and Agile development.
11. Have skills to evaluate practices, metrics, and roles to continually optimize SDLC methodologies and automate processes to improve lead time and quality.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come 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;
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

Pay Ranges

Vancouver, Canada: $200,000 - $320,000 CAD