Director, Software Engineering - Java
Mastercard · Pune · Posted 2026-07-02
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About the role
The Director, Software Engineering will lead the engineering strategy, delivery, and operational excellence for Mastercard’s Next Generation File Transfer (NGFT) platform—our strategic solution for modernizing file transfer across global products and regions.
This role is accountable for ensuring platform stability, scalability, and regulatory compliance, while enabling the migration from legacy systems and supporting critical business flows such as clearing and settlement.
Responsibilities:
- Major Accountabilities
- Own end-to-end delivery and health of the NGFT platform, including core transfer engine, orchestration, and supporting services.
- Define and execute the engineering strategy and roadmap, balancing platform stability with long-term modernization
- Lead and develop multiple engineering teams and managers across global locations
- Drive operational excellence, including platform observability, incident management, and resiliency improvements.
- Ensure architecture supports scalability, modularity, and high availability across multi-region deployments.
- Partner with Product, TPM, SRE, and business stakeholders to deliver critical platform capabilities and migrations
- Represent engineering in executive forums, communicating risks, progress, and strategic direction
- Establish and enforce engineering best practices across SDLC, testing, and security.
- Leadership & Team Management
- Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization, including managers and senior technical leaders
- Drive a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement
- Coach and mentor leaders to improve engineering quality, delivery predictability, and talent development
Qualifications:
- Extensive experience in software engineering with progressive leadership (managing managers)
- Proven success leading large-scale, mission-critical platforms or infrastructure systems
- Experience in distributed systems, high-availability environments, and regulated industries
- Technical Expertise
- Strong understanding of:
- Distributed and microservices-based architectures
- Event-driven and reactive systems
- File transfer and integration technologies (e.g., HTTP, SFTP)
- Scalability, performance, and resiliency engineering
- Experience driving observability, automation, and reliability engineering practices
- Align global teams to execute against shared platform priorities and timelines
- Leadership Skills
- Strategic mindset with ability to balance long-term vision and short-term execution
- Strong decision-making in high-pressure, ambiguous environments.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including executive engagement
- Ability to influence across cross-functional and geographically distributed teams
Qualifications
- Extensive experience in software engineering with progressive leadership (managing managers)
- Proven success leading large-scale, mission-critical platforms or infrastructure systems
- Experience in distributed systems, high-availability environments, and regulated industries Technical Expertise
- Strong understanding of:
- Distributed and microservices-based architectures
- Event-driven and reactive systems
- File transfer and integration technologies (e.g., HTTP, SFTP)
- Scalability, performance, and resiliency engineering
- Experience driving observability, automation, and reliability engineering practices
- Align global teams to execute against shared platform priorities and timelines Leadership Skills
- Strategic mindset with ability to balance long-term vision and short-term execution
- Strong decision-making in high-pressure, ambiguous environments.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including executive engagement
- Ability to influence across cross-functional and geographically distributed teams
Responsibilities
- Major Accountabilities Own end-to-end delivery and health of the NGFT platform, including core transfer engine, orchestration, and supporting services.
- Define and execute the engineering strategy and roadmap, balancing platform stability with long-term modernization
- Lead and develop multiple engineering teams and managers across global locations
- Drive operational excellence, including platform observability, incident management, and resiliency improvements.
- Ensure architecture supports scalability, modularity, and high availability across multi-region deployments.
- Partner with Product, TPM, SRE, and business stakeholders to deliver critical platform capabilities and migrations
- Represent engineering in executive forums, communicating risks, progress, and strategic direction
- Establish and enforce engineering best practices across SDLC, testing, and security.
- Leadership & Team Management
- Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization, including managers and senior technical leaders
- Drive a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement
- Coach and mentor leaders to improve engineering quality, delivery predictability, and talent development