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, easy, 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
Lead AI Engineer
Overview

As a Lead AI Engineer within Mastercard's AI Center of Excellence, you will provide technical leadership for the design, architecture, and delivery of enterprise AI and Agentic AI solutions that support Mastercard's strategic initiatives. You will lead multidisciplinary engineering teams in building scalable, secure, and production-ready AI platforms and applications while driving engineering excellence, innovation, and adoption of AI across the organization

You will own the technical vision for AI engineering initiatives,



establish enterprise standards and best practices, and collaborate closely with product, architecture, security, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to deliver high-impact AI capabilities at scale

Key Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise AI, machine learning, and Generative AI platforms and applications
- Drive the E2E delivery of production AI solutions, from solution architecture and engineering through deployment, monitoring, optimization, and lifecycle management
- Define enterprise AI engineering standards, reference architectures, reusable frameworks, and best practices for scalable AI development
- Lead the design and implementation of cloud-native AI platforms leveraging microservices, Kubernetes, APIs, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems
- Establish and evolve MLOps and AgenticOps capabilities, including automated CI/CD pipelin

📌 Lead AI Engineer (Pune)
🏢 Mastercard
📍 Pune