Director, Software Engineering - Java

Mastercard; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Director of Software Engineering - Java to lead NGFT platform strategy, delivery, and operational excellence across regions. You will ensure stability, scalability and regulatory compliance while migrating from legacy systems to support critical business flows like clearing and settlement.

You will guide multiple engineering teams, drive observability, incident response, and architectural modernization, while collaborating with Product, SRE, TPM, and executives to align

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in software engineering with progressive leadership (managing managers).
• Proven success leading large-scale, mission-critical platforms or infrastructure systems.
• Experience in distributed systems, high-availability environments, and regulated industries.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery and health of the NGFT platform, including core transfer engine and orchestration.
• Define and execute the engineering strategy and roadmap, balancing stability with modernization.
• Lead multiple engineering teams and managers across global locations.
• Drive observability, incident management, and resiliency improvements.
• Ensure architecture supports scalability, modularity, and high availability across multi-region deployments.
• Partner with Product, TPM, SRE, and business stakeholders to deliver platform capabilities.
• Represent engineering in executive forums, communicating risks and progress.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices across SDLC, testing, and security.

Skills

Distributed systems

Microservices

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Executive communication

Tools

Observability tooling

CI/CD pipelines

Security practices

Incident management

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

Director, Software Engineering - Java

Overview

The Director, Software Engineering will lead the engineering strategy, delivery, and operational excellence for Mastercard’s Next Generation File Transfer (NGFT) platform—our strategic solution for modernizing file transfer across global products and regions. This role is accountable for ensuring platform stability, scalability, and regulatory compliance, while enabling the migration from legacy systems and supporting critical business flows such as clearing and settlement.

Major Accountabilities

• Own end-to-end delivery and health of the NGFT platform, including core transfer engine, orchestration, and supporting services.
• Define and execute the engineering strategy and roadmap, balancing platform stability with long-term modernization.
• Lead and develop multiple engineering teams and managers across global locations.
• Drive operational excellence, including platform observability, incident management, and resiliency improvements.
• Ensure architecture supports scalability, modularity, and high availability across multi-region deployments.
• Partner with Product, TPM, SRE, and business stakeholders to deliver critical platform capabilities and migrations.
• Represent engineering in executive forums, communicating risks, progress, and strategic direction.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices across SDLC, testing, and security.

Leadership & Team Management

• Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization, including managers and senior technical leaders.
• Drive a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Coach and mentor leaders to improve engineering quality, delivery predictability, and talent development.

Experience

• Extensive experience in software engineering with progressive leadership (managing managers).
• Proven success leading large-scale, mission‑critical platforms or infrastructure systems.
• Experience in distributed systems, high‑availability environments, and regulated industries.

Technical Expertise

• Distributed and microservices-based architectures.
• Event-driven and reactive systems.
• File transfer and integration technologies (e.g., HTTP, SFTP).
• Scalability, performance, and resiliency engineering.
• Experience driving observability, automation, and reliability engineering practices.
• Align global teams to execute against shared platform priorities and timelines.

Leadership Skills

• Strategic mindset with ability to balance long-term vision and short-term execution.
• Strong decision-making in high-pressure, ambiguous environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including executive engagement.
• Ability to influence across cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.

Corporate Security Responsibility

• 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.