Director, Software Engineering

Mastercard
Dublin
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 12+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Influence","Problem-solving"]

Lead Quality Engineering across Mastercard’s CNPF products and platforms, building and guiding a global team of quality engineers. Define and execute QE strategy across full-stack applications, data systems, and infrastructure (including AI/ML), drive test automation, embed quality early in the lifecycle, and own release quality gates while ensuring security, scalability, and performance to deliver measurable business value.

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Director, Software Engineering

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Job Summary

Lead Quality Engineering across Mastercard’s CNPF products and platforms, building and guiding a global team of quality engineers. Define and execute QE strategy across full-stack applications, data systems, and infrastructure (including AI/ML), drive test automation, embed quality early in the lifecycle, and own release quality gates while ensuring security, scalability, and performance to deliver measurable business value.
Location: Dublin
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Develop and execute short- and mid-term strategic plans for Quality Engineering across the organization.
  • •Lead the design and delivery of complex testing solutions across full-stack applications, data systems, and infrastructure.
  • •Drive test automation strategy—define what to automate, at what layer, with what tooling.
  • •Embed quality earlier in the lifecycle (shift-left) and extend into production (shift-right).
  • •Own release quality gates and define ship-or-hold criteria, plus drive root cause analysis on production incidents and escaped defects.

Key Requirements

  • •12+ years of software engineering experience, with 7+ years focused on Quality Engineering at increasing levels of scope and leadership;
  • •5+ years managing engineering teams, including managers of managers;
  • •Demonstrated expertise across full-stack application quality (API, UI, microservices) and data/ML system quality (pipelines, models, data platforms);
  • •Track record of defining and executing QE strategy at scale and transforming how an organization approaches quality;
  • •Experience in financial services, payments, or other highly regulated technology environments
Experience:12+ yearsPaymentsFinancial servicesFintech
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipInfluenceProblem-solving
Tech Stack:APIsMicroservicesData pipelinesAIMachine learningSecurityScalability

Company Brief

Mastercard
Mastercard is a global payments and technology company that processes transactions, provides fraud prevention and data services, and builds payment infrastructure for consumers, businesses, merchants and governments across 200+ countries.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Purchase, New York, United States
Founded: 1966
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