Manager, Software Engineering — Connectivity

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 — Connectivity

This role sits within Mastercard's Open Finance Europe – Connectivity team, responsible for building and operating scalable API connectivity to financial institutions across Europe.

As a Manager, Software Engineering, you will lead a team of software engineers responsible for delivering secure, reliable, and scalable connectivity services. You will combine technical leadership with people management, driving engineering execution, fostering a high-performing team, and ensuring the successful delivery of business-critical initiatives.

You will partner closely with Product, Architecture, Security, and business stakeholders to define engineering priorities, deliver new capabilities, improve platform reliability, and scale integrations across multiple European markets.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of software engineers through coaching, performance management, and career development

• Own engineering execution for multiple initiatives, ensuring high-quality delivery from design through development, deployment, and production support

• Drive technical excellence by promoting engineering best practices, architectural standards, code quality, security, testing, and operational excellence

• Collaborate with Product Management to prioritize work, manage delivery commitments, and align engineering efforts with business objectives

• Partner with Architecture, Security, SRE, and Platform Engineering teams to build scalable, resilient, and secure solutions

• Guide system design and technical decision-making while empowering engineers to solve complex technical challenges

• Establish engineering processes that improve delivery predictability, developer productivity, and operational efficiency

• Ensure production stability through effective monitoring, incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement

• Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning across the team

• Drive adoption of automation, CI/CD, observability, and AI-assisted engineering tools to improve engineering velocity and quality

• Support hiring, onboarding, workforce planning, and succession planning to build a strong engineering organization

• Communicate engineering progress, risks, and strategic initiatives to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders

Technology Stack

• C#, .NET 10, Web APIs

• Java/Spring Boot (preferred)

• Azure (App Services, Blob Storage, Key Vault, CI/CD)

• AWS (Microservices, S3, Redis, CI/CD Pipelines)

• PostgreSQL, Flyway

• Generative AI tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.)

All About You

Must Have

• Proven experience leading and managing software engineering teams delivering cloud-native, highly available applications

• Strong technical background in backend engineering, API design, distributed systems, and production operations

• Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams through the full software development lifecycle

• Experience managing engineering delivery, balancing technical debt, platform reliability, and business priorities

• Strong coaching and mentoring skills with a passion for developing engineering talent

• Experience collaborating with Product Management and business stakeholders to translate business objectives into engineering outcomes

• Experience driving engineering best practices, including code quality, testing, security, DevOps, and operational excellence

• Familiarity with banking, payments, or Open Banking (PSD2) ecosystems

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a data-driven approach to decision-making

Nice to Have

• Experience leading teams delivering Open Banking or large-scale financial institution connectivity platforms

• Experience managing geographically distributed engineering teams

• Experience with AI-assisted software development tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.)

• Track record of improving engineering productivity through automation, platform engineering, and DevOps practices

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, cloud governance, and engineering platform modernization

• Experience defining engineering metrics, OKRs, and operational KPIs to drive continuous improvement

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.