Director of Software Engineering

Join Mastercard as the Director of Software Engineering for Consumer Data Management (CDM). In this role, you will lead engineering teams responsible for building, modernizing, and operating CDM platform capabilities. You will set technical direction, guide architecture decisions, and translate product priorities into clear engineering outcomes. Additionally, you will drive modern PDLC/SDLC practices, build a flexible engineering organization, and represent CDM engineering within the Dublin office.

Sound judgment balancing modernization, feature delivery, technical debt, operational risk, resilience, cost, and regulatory expectations

About Mastercard

Build a flexible, fungible engineering organization with clear ownership, strong technical practices, and the ability to shift capacity across priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams responsible for building, modernizing, and operating Consumer Data Management (CDM) platform capabilities.
• Drive modern Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices across planning, design, build, test, deploy, operate, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to develop high-performing, diverse, and flexible engineering teams in a global, matrixed environment
• Clear communicator who can explain technology strategy, delivery progress, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs to senior leaders and engineering teams
• Hands-on familiarity with AI-enabled engineering practices across PDLC/SDLC activities

Requirements

• Strong technical depth across software design, architecture, APIs, distributed systems, data platforms, cloud-native engineering, testing, and secure development
• Ability to represent the team credibly within the Dublin office and across Mastercard’s global engineering community
• Experience improving engineering maturity through automation, CI/CD, observability, incident learning, vulnerability management, and developer productivity practices
• Strong understanding of quality gates, secure development, test automation, code review, release readiness, and production support

Benefits

• Experience leading software engineering teams that build and operate mission-critical, scalable platforms
• Track record of coaching engineers and managers, building succession depth, raising standards, and creating an inclusive culture of ownership