VP of AI-Native Decisioning Platform

Mastercard; Purchase (NY); On-site; USD 220,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Vice President of Software Engineering for Decision Stream Engineering Co-Founder. You will lead the engineering vision, drive platform evolution, and build a high-performance, distributed systems organization capable of handling real-time decisioning at global scale.

You will collaborate with Product, Architecture, Foundry, and AI teams to align engineering investments with customer outcomes, delivering measurable results while maintaining security and reliability

Qualifications

• Engineering leadership experience required.
• Proven track record building and scaling large distributed platforms.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native architecture, microservices, and event-driven systems.
• Demonstrated success leading engineering organizations through transformation and growth.
• Experience delivering high-availability platforms at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering vision for Decision Stream and set priorities.
• Drive platform evolution, architecture decisions, and investment strategy.
• Build and scale world-class engineering teams across disciplines.
• Partner with Product Co-Founder to align investments with outcomes.
• Drive execution from MVP to scaled adoption and establish metrics.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

Microservices

Data-driven decisions

Executive communication

Product collaboration

AI/ML platforms

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Job description

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Vice President of Software Engineering for Decision Stream Engineering Co-Founder. You will lead the engineering vision, drive platform evolution, and build a high-performance, distributed systems organization capable of handling real-time decisioning at global scale.

You will collaborate with Product, Architecture, Foundry, and AI teams to align engineering investments with customer outcomes, delivering measurable results while maintaining security and reliability