At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a high-performing team in developing innovative Sanctions Screening solutions using AI and modern tech.
- Company: Join Mastercard, a leader in secure global payment processing and compliance.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, hybrid work model, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Be part of a dynamic environment focused on innovation and collaboration.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in financial security while mentoring the next generation of engineers.
- Qualifications: Proven experience in software engineering leadership and a passion for team development.
The predicted salary is between 135000 - 165000 $ per year.
We are seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to lead the development and evolution of Mastercard’s Sanctions Screening solutions. These solutions help financial institutions assess sanctions risk for payment transactions in real time, supporting regulatory compliance, risk management and secure global payment processing. This role is a hybrid of roughly 70% technical leadership and 30% people management. The successful candidate will remain deeply involved in system solutioning, technical designs, engineering execution and continuous improvement on AI assist software development workflow while also building, mentoring and leading a high-performing engineering team.
Technical Leadership (70%)
- Own the technical direction, architecture and delivery strategy for the Sanctions Service platform, built in Java and C++ primarily.
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable, reliable and secure software solutions meeting the common enterprise standards.
- Drive engineering excellence through design reviews, code quality, operational readiness and best practices.
- Partner with Product, Architecture, Compliance and Operations teams to deliver business-critical capabilities.
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Drive modernization efforts focused on scalability, resilience, cloud readiness and operational efficiency.
- Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex engineering and production challenges.
AI & Agentic Engineering
- Define and execute a strategy for adopting AI-assisted and agentic engineering capabilities across the software development lifecycle.
- Leverage AI tools to improve software delivery, testing, operational support, documentation and developer productivity, focusing on achieving faster iteration on requirements gathering, specification elaboration and concepts validation.
- Identify opportunities to automate engineering workflows and reduce operational overhead.
- Establish guardrails and governance for responsible AI adoption, including security, transparency and human oversight.
- Foster a culture of experimentation and innovation while maintaining strong compliance and risk controls.
People Leadership (30%)
- Lead and develop a high-performing team of software engineers.
- Conduct regular coaching, career development discussions and performance management activities.
- Create an inclusive, accountable and psychologically safe team culture.
- Partner with recruiting to attract, retain and develop top engineering talent.
- Drive planning, prioritization and execution of team roadmaps and delivery commitments.
- Establish clear goals, expectations and ownership across the team.
What Success Looks Like:
- A high-performing engineering team with strong engagement, accountability and technical excellence.
- Predictable delivery of secure, scalable and reliable Sanctions Service capabilities.
- Successful adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices proven by industries that improve productivity and delivery quality.
- Measurable improvements in platform resilience, operational efficiency and customer outcomes.
- Strong alignment across engineering, product, compliance and operational stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to balance hands-on technical leadership with people management responsibilities.
Qualifications:
- Proven experience leading software engineering teams and delivering large-scale enterprise software solutions.
- Experience managing product roadmaps, business priorities, engineering deliverables and technical risks.
- Experience with Agile software development and modern engineering practices.
- Strong technical background with experience designing distributed, highly available systems.
- Passion for mentoring engineers and building high-performing teams.
- Strong communication, collaboration and stakeholder-management skills.
- Experience in payments, financial services, compliance, fraud, sanctions screening or risk management will be a great bonus.
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools, agentic workflows or intelligent automation solutions.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms, DevOps practices and modern observability tooling.
- Experience operating services in regulated, security-sensitive environments.
- Bachelor’s in computer science, Engineering or a related discipline.
Software Engineering Manager in Vancouver employer: Mastercard
Mastercard is an exceptional employer that fosters a dynamic work culture focused on innovation and collaboration. As a Strategic Partnerships Director, you will benefit from extensive professional growth opportunities while working in a vibrant environment that values diversity and inclusion. Located in a hub of technological advancement, Mastercard offers competitive benefits and the chance to make a meaningful impact in the payments ecosystem.
