Vice President, Platform 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 Vice President, Platform 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. Role Summary At Mastercard, the pace of change across technology, AI, and the nature of work requires that we constantly push the boundaries for the technologies in building and operating infrastructure and applications globally. The Vice President, Platform Engineering is a critical technology and engineering leadership role within Operations Automation Program responsible for advancing our infrastructure and platform automation strategy through innovation and effective problem-solving. This role focuses designing, building, and maintaining automation frameworks, platform services, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capabilities that power large scale, hybrid infrastructure environments. The ideal candidate brings deep experience with Terraform, Chef or Ansible, strong DevOps engineering skills, and a passion for leading innovative teams and building scalable systems. Operations Automation program supports Mastercard’s global infrastructure footprint by building and maintain automation platforms, automating infrastructure, services, and application delivery with efficient tools and processes. Key Responsibilities •Lead team of automation engineers driving the execution of Mastercard’s infrastructure automation strategy across cloud & on premises and provide technical leadership over multiple operating areas that impact data, network, communication and computing platform technologies to ensure optimal performance •Translate organizational vision and champions new and innovative strategic changes across Mastercard technology environments •Identifies process gaps and inefficiencies within Technology Operations, innovate and develops roadmaps solutions to address complex technical issues and improve efficiencies in existing platforms and drives that change in infrastructure •Lead and guides design teams through complex builds to solidify platform capabilities and introduce innovative concepts •Design, build, and maintain Infrastructure as as Code solutions using Terraform or Ansible to automate provisioning across cloud and on prem environments. •Develop reusable modules, playbooks, and automation libraries that standardize infrastructure deployment patterns. •Engineer and enhance platform services, including CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, artifact repositories, automated orchestration and configuration management systems. •Implement automated testing, validation, and security scanning for IaC and platform components. •Build and maintain self-service automation workflows, enabling application and infrastructure teams to consume services through APIs, catalogs, or pipelines. •Integrate automation with cloud platforms, virtualization systems, network/security appliances, and ente ... (truncated, view full listing at source)