Manager, Software Engineering | Data & AI Platform

Overview

Lead a growing Pune-based software engineering team in Data Foundations, part of Business & Market Insights, which builds and runs shared data capabilities for Mastercard's analytics products. The first priority is reliable ingestion of customer and third-party data while moving established pipelines from manual effort to cloud automation.

What you'll do

• Partner with product management to understand users, shape scope and priorities, and share accountability for outcomes.
• Manage and develop engineers: set goals, give regular feedback, run performance reviews, and help attract and grow talent as the team expands.
• Own the team's technical direction, reviewing designs, pipeline plans and code, and spend 40-50% of your time hands-on where it counts most.
• Own execution across new development and production support, reducing operational load by automating, improving or retiring pipelines.
• Set and uphold standards for testing, release, data quality and security, with clear owners, monitoring and service-level objectives for production services.
• Lead major incidents through to root cause.
• Plan capacity across employees and contractors, hold vendors to clear deliverables, and work with business operations on customer onboarding.
• Communicate progress, risks and decisions to senior leaders.
• Help the team use AI tools where they genuinely improve speed or quality.

What you'll need

• Experience managing engineers, including performance management and career development.
• Strong product judgement and a record of shaping what is built, not just delivering it.
• Experience running and improving production data pipelines, including moving legacy workloads to the cloud.
• Recent hands-on experience with Databricks and AWS or comparable cloud data platforms.
• Good knowledge of batch processing, data quality and data governance.
• Clear communication across global technical and senior audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience exchanging data with external customers or partners, including secure transfer and access control.
• Experience with SQL Server, Hadoop or other platforms being migrated.
• Experience in payments, financial services or a regulated data environment.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.
• Corporate security responsibility: abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices; ensure confidentiality and integrity of information accessed; report any suspected information security violation or breach; complete all periodic mandatory security trainings.