Vice President, 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 Vice President, Software Engineering Consumer Data Management (CDM) is a strategic enterprise platform that manages consumer identity, consent, and engagement across Mastercard’s ecosystem. As Mastercard advances toward a modern, AI- and data-centric architecture, CDM enables trusted, compliant, and scalable consumer experiences. We are seeking a Vice President, Engineering to lead the technology strategy, engineering execution, and operational readiness of CDM across identity, consent lifecycle management, and consumer engagement services. This leader will be accountable for building and scaling secure, resilient, compliant, and reusable platform capabilities that enable Mastercard teams to activate consumer data responsibly and deliver personalized, trusted experiences across channels. Role Engineering Strategy & Platform Modernization • Define and execute the CDM engineering strategy, evolving identity, consent, consumer data, and engagement services from point solutions into a cohesive, scalable, reusable enterprise platform. • Establish architectural direction, engineering standards, and platform guardrails that improve scalability, reliability, security, developer experience, speed of delivery, and reuse. • Partner with product, architecture, data, security, privacy, and regional stakeholders to translate business priorities into executable engineering roadmaps with KPIs tied to adoption, resilience, quality, cost efficiency, and platform value. Architecture, Delivery & Operational Excellence • Own end-to-end engineering execution across CDM services, including design, development, testing, release management, production readiness, and ongoing operational support. • Ensure CDM platforms are architected and operated for high availability, performance, observability, disaster recovery, security, privacy, regulatory compliance, and SLA commitments. • Strengthen engineering practices across API design, distributed systems, event-driven architecture, data governance, automation, CI/CD, quality engineering, incident management, and vulnerability planning/remediation. • Lead technical engagement with internal platform consumers, regional teams, enterprise architecture, risk, compliance, and third-party providers to manage dependencies, adoption, service quality, and reliable delivery.