Director, AI-Driven Platform Engineering (Dublin)

Mastercard Inc.; Dublin; On-site; EUR 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard Inc. in Dublin seeks a Director of Software Engineering to lead the CDM platform teams responsible for secure, scalable consumer identity, consent, preference, and engagement capabilities across Mastercard’s ecosystem.

You will drive AI-enabled PDLC/SDLC practices, modern delivery discipline, and a flexible organization that scales across priorities with quality, resilience, and security. Strong leadership and architectural depth are essential in this global, matrixed environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading software engineering teams that build and operate mission-critical, scalable platforms.
• Strong technical depth across software design, architecture, APIs, distributed systems, data platforms, cloud-native engineering, testing, and secure development.
• Experience improving engineering maturity through automation, CI/CD, observability, incident learning, vulnerability management, and developer productivity practices.
• Hands-on familiarity with AI-enabled engineering practices across PDLC/SDLC activities.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams that design, build, test, release, and operate scalable, secure, and resilient CDM platform capabilities.
• Set technical direction, guide architecture decisions, and translate product priorities into clear engineering outcomes.
• Raise the quality bar across design, code quality, testing, performance, secure development, release readiness, and production support.

Skills

Leadership

Software architecture

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

CI/CD

Observability

Security practices

AI in engineering

Stakeholder comms

Job description

Mastercard Inc. in Dublin seeks a Director of Software Engineering to lead the CDM platform teams responsible for secure, scalable consumer identity, consent, preference, and engagement capabilities across Mastercard’s ecosystem.

You will drive AI-enabled PDLC/SDLC practices, modern delivery discipline, and a flexible organization that scales across priorities with quality, resilience, and security. Strong leadership and architectural depth are essential in this global, matrixed environment.