Manager, Software Engineering

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 Manager, Software Engineering Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. Overview The Data Governance and Control team is looking for a Software Engineering Manager to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset. (This can change depending on the team you work on. Please revise as necessary.) Role • Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing services team, driving a culture of accountability, growth, and continuous improvement. • Provide strategic and technical leadership across applications, systems, and development methodologies, including designing scalable, high-quality platform solutions and service-oriented architectures. • Participate and lead feature planning, scoping, estimation and execution to ensure clear priorities, efficient delivery, and alignment with business objectives. • Serve as a senior technical resource, mentoring engineers, guiding development best practices, and elevating overall team capability. • Drive the scaling and automation of data platforms and processes across cloud and on-prem environments, with strong expertise in databases, data warehousing, and Data Cataloging. • Drive best practices, standards, and process improvements within the team. • Enforce engineering excellence through code reviews, process improvements, and adoption of innovative technologies to handle rapidly growing data sets. • Own delivery of assigned initiatives, ensuring quality, timeliness, and alignment with organizational goals. • Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders including product, architecture, operations, and business teams. • Manage vendor relationships and SOW engagements while ensuring strong performance management, goal alignment, and delivery accountability across the team. All About You : • Proven experience leading, coaching, and scaling high-performing software development teams across multiple locations and levels. • Professional experience in Data Warehousing, Data Analytics, or Data Cataloging, including experience managing or leading a team with responsibilities for task allocation, mentoring, and performance feedback. • Strong ability to collaborate across business units, effectively communicating and partnering with stakeholders at all levels within a global organization. • Skilled at translating business requirements into technical solutions, working closely with product and engineering teams to drive execution. • Demonstrated success in developing and executing strategic roadmaps aligned to customer needs and business goals. • Hands-on full-stack engineering experience within agile, production ... (truncated, view full listing at source)