Senior Vice President, Software Engineering - AI & Rules Decision Tooling

at  MasterCard

Our Purpose
We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a
culture of inclusion
for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Title and Summary
Senior Vice President, Software Engineering - AI & Rules Decision Tooling
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
The AI & Decision Product Enablement team enables industry leading AI and decisioning based products for market facing programs with business agility and deliver with resiliency, availability, and global scale. We are looking for a SVP Software Engineering to lead our AI & Rules Decision Tooling internal product team along with other products for the Decision Management Program (DMP). DMP products deliver industry-leading intelligence with business agility at global scale to power over 40 market facing products across the MA network while processing billions of transactions per day, through hundreds of AI models in milliseconds. The ideal candidate is passonate about driving growth in AI and decision based products by building the next generation of AI inferencing & related technology capabilities to grow MA services with a strong focus on our internal customers. The ideal candidate is highly motivated, intellectually curious, a strategic thinker, a strong partner and leader.

Role

• Provide overall ownership of AI & Rules Decision Tooling & other technology products, acting as the highest authority on high-level and complex decisions
• Formally supervise and coach multiple engineering teams to build, enhance, and support multiple applications/services in the delivery of new capabilities
• Provide strategic thinking and leadership across architecture, approaches, and development methodologies to enable resiliency, localization, and new product capabilities.
• Responsible for business execution including objective setting, performance management, recruiting, and coaching
• Partner with key stakeholders to provides strategic thinking and leadership to meet product needs and technical objectives through solutions
• Sets the vision for an environment of ingenuity and creativity and acts as a role model for others in challenging the status quo to encourage innovation
• Benchmark and drive engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance in the areas of ownership

All About You

• IT experience with successful track record in managing medium-to-large scale development organization with demonstrated thought-leadership, cross-functional influence, and partnership
• Has a breadth and depth of technical experience including high volume, low latency critical systems, AI/ML inferencing, business rules engines, and micro-service architecture.
• Has experience in leading and coaching teams to perform software planning and estimation for large scale complex programs
• Has skills to architect cost effective systems to run on-prem and public cloud environments
• Performance engineering experience to ensure applications are built to scale, run, and perform for varying demands.
• Demonstrated innovator and strategic thinker evidenced through solutions to meet both product and technology needs
• Has skills to evaluate practices, metrics, and roles to continually optimize SDLC methodologies and automate processes to improve lead time and quality
• Has an expert understanding of DevOps best practices to guide developers and abstract application development from underlying hosting platforms and infrastructure

Corporate Security Responsibility

Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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

Mastercard is an inclusive equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
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.

Role

• Provide overall ownership of AI & Rules Decision Tooling & other technology products, acting as the highest authority on high-level and complex decisions
• Formally supervise and coach multiple engineering teams to build, enhance, and support multiple applications/services in the delivery of new capabilities
• Provide strategic thinking and leadership across architecture, approaches, and development methodologies to enable resiliency, localization, and new product capabilities.
• Responsible for business execution including objective setting, performance management, recruiting, and coaching
• Partner with key stakeholders to provides strategic thinking and leadership to meet product needs and technical objectives through solutions
• Sets the vision for an environment of ingenuity and creativity and acts as a role model for others in challenging the status quo to encourage innovation
• Benchmark and drive engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance in the areas of ownershi

Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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 guideline

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