Vice President of Engineering - Connectivity Platforms Services

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 of Engineering - Connectivity Platforms Services

Vice President of Engineering – Connectivity Platforms Services

Overview

The Platform Services group is responsible for designing, building, and operating the technology that powers Mastercard's market-facing and core technology platforms. This includes foundational services such as the API Gateway, Event Gateway, and File Transfer Services.

We are seeking a Vice President, Software Engineering to join our Pune team, focusing on building and operating our Next Generation File Transfer platform. This platform supports secure, seamless data transfers across Mastercard's global infrastructure—including Mastercard's next-generation switch—and is designed for deployment on both private and public cloud environments.

This is an exciting senior engineering leadership role within a globally distributed team, passionate about delivering resilient, scalable solutions to our customers.

Role

In This Role, You Will

• Drive collaboration across engineering, product management, enterprise functions, and regional business teams.
• Define the technical strategy, architecture, design, and execution for delivering an end-to-end Treasury Management solution that scales with business needs.
• Lead engineering teams with a strong focus on nonfunctional requirements—including reliability, performance, scalability, and security.
• Champion an operational mindset, ensuring systems are robust, observable, and maintainable.
• Drive change management initiatives across engineering and cross-functional teams, balancing innovation with risk mitigation.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards, governance models, and operational excellence practices.
• Mentor and develop engineering leaders, fostering a culture of accountability, resilience, and continuous improvement.
• Manage relationships with external vendors and technology partners, ensuring alignment with Mastercard's engineering standards, delivery timelines, and strategic goals.

Technology Expertise

Ideal Candidate Profile

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 :

Skills Required

Java, Infrastructure Automation