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Job Description

- Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories

worldwide. Together with our customers, were 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

Overview

The Mastercard Transaction Services (MTS) Compliance Platform Engineering team is

responsible for designing, building, and operating shared compliance capabilities for

Mastercards regulated payment flows. We build reusable services and integration

patterns that standardize controls, improve operability and reduce duplicated

integrations across products.

We are looking for a technically strong engineering leader with deep experience in

platform architecture, distributed systems, APIs, event-driven systems, and control

automation, who can build scalable, resilient, and auditable compliance capabilities for

regulated payment flows.

Role

As a Director of Software Engineering, you will:

Drive business outcomes with the right technology solutions

- Lead the platform strategy, architecture & design for shared compliance capabilities,

ensuring scalable, reusable solutions that enable business growth and regulatory

adherence.

- Drive cross-functional delivery execution to achieve business outcomes. Establish plans,

manage dependencies and risks, and ensure release readiness for production adoption

across consuming teams.

- Track delivery progress through clear milestones, metrics, and stakeholder updates to

ensure commitments are met.





- Plan and optimize team capacity and resourcing allocation, balancing investment

trade-offs to ensure focus on highest-value roadmap priorities.

- Partner with product, compliance and other engineering teams to shape requirements,

define scope, and drive reuse across products and payment flows.

- Apply payments compliance domain knowledge - including AML, sanctions screening,

transaction monitoring, and control testing concepts - to guide platform design and

translate regulatory needs into scalable engineering solutions.

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Drive a culture of engineering excellence

- Drive engineering excellence across the SDLC, ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery

with strong focus on reliability, scalability, and time-to-market, underpinned by

observability, resilience, and effective incident response.

- Ensure all solutions meet enterprise standards for security, resilience, scalability,

maintainability, and auditability, with clear accountability for service ownership and

lifecycle management.

- Establish and track engineering KPIs (e.g., availability, latency, deployment frequency,

MTTR), using data to drive continuous improvement and operational maturity.

- Evaluate, adopt, and scale new technologies (including AI) through targeted proofs of

concept to strengthen controls, enhance compliance outcomes, and accelerate business

delivery.

- Foster strong cross-functional engineering alignment, driving reuse of platforms,





consistency of standards, and effective collaboration across engineering, product, risk,

and operations teams.

- Embed a culture of continuous improvement and learning, leveraging retrospectives,

automation, and feedback loops to systematically improve quality, resilience, and

efficiency.

All About You

- Experience building and operating highly scalable, secure, and resilient platforms.
- Strong background in software development, ideally using Java and related software

development frameworks.

- Strong understanding of modern delivery practices, including Agile, DevOps and SRE.
- Solid stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to

explain complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences.

- Hands-on technical leader who consistently demonstrates leadership, builds trust,

inspires teams and is comfortable moving between strategy and technical depth.

- Proven people leader who develops talent, manages performance, and builds inclusive,

high-performing teams with a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes

with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person

working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

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.

📌 Director Software Engineering (Maharashtra)
🏢 Mastercard
📍 Maharashtra