Who you are

- Proven experience leading software engineering teams and delivering large-scale enterprise software solutions

- Strong technical background with experience designing distributed, highly available systems

- Demonstrated ability to balance hands-on technical leadership with people management responsibilities

- Experience managing product roadmaps, business priorities, engineering deliverables and technical risks

- Strong communication, collaboration and stakeholder-management skills

- Experience with Agile software development and modern engineering practices

- Passion for mentoring engineers and building high-performing teams

- 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

- Experience operating services in regulated, security-sensitive environments

- Knowledge of cloud platforms, DevOps practices and modern observability tooling

- Bachelor’s in computer science, Engineering or a related discipline

What the job involves

- 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(of 7 people now)

- 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 of 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 achieve 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 robust 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

📌 Manager of Software Engineering (Vancouver)
🏢 Mastercard
📍 Vancouver