Manager, Software Engineering at Mastercard in O'Fallon, MO

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

Manager, Software Engineering

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 Data Governance and Control team is looking for a Software Engineering Manager to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset. (This can change depending on the team you work on. Please revise as necessary.)

Role

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing services team, driving a culture of accountability, growth, and continuous improvement.
• Provide strategic and technical leadership across applications, systems, and development methodologies, including designing scalable, high-quality platform solutions and service-oriented architectures.
• Participate and lead feature planning, scoping, estimation and execution to ensure clear priorities, efficient delivery, and alignment with business objectives.
• Serve as a senior technical resource, mentoring engineers, guiding development best practices, and elevating overall team capability.
• Drive the scaling and automation of data platforms and processes across cloud and on-prem environments, with strong expertise in databases, data warehousing, and Data Cataloging.
• Drive best practices, standards, and process improvements within the team.
• Enforce engineering excellence through code reviews, process improvements, and adoption of innovative technologies to handle rapidly growing data sets.
• Own delivery of assigned initiatives, ensuring quality, timeliness, and alignment with organizational goals.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders including product, architecture, operations, and business teams.
• Manage vendor relationships and SOW engagements while ensuring strong performance management, goal alignment, and delivery accountability across the team.

All About You :

• Proven experience leading, coaching, and scaling high-performing software development teams across multiple locations and levels.
• Professional experience in Data Warehousing, Data Analytics, or Data Cataloging, including experience managing or leading a team with responsibilities for task allocation, mentoring, and performance feedback.
• Strong ability to collaborate across business units, effectively communicating and partnering with stakeholders at all levels within a global organization.
• Skilled at translating business requirements into technical solutions, working closely with product and engineering teams to drive execution.
• Demonstrated success in developing and executing strategic roadmaps aligned to customer needs and business goals.
• Hands-on full-stack engineering experience within agile, production environments.
• Deep expertise in databases, data warehousing, and Informatica.
• Proven ability to design and implement scalable, high-impact solutions to complex technical challenges.
• Experience building modular architectures, including single-responsibility services and API-driven designs.
• Strong background in automating and scaling complex data pipelines and application architectures, with solid knowledge of web and server-side technologies (microservices); experience with modern OOP languages (e.g., Java) is a plus.
• Passion for analytical problem-solving, combined with strong communication skills and experience with CI/CD practices for large-scale production systems.

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Mastercard is a merit-based, 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. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. 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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $140,000 - $231,000 USD