Lead, Software Engineer

Mastercard is hiring a Lead Software Engineer in its Advisors & Transformation group to accelerate the transformation of consulting through AI and technology. The role leads hands-on development and delivery of secure, scalable AI platform capabilities, integrations, workflows, and reusable services, while providing technical direction and supporting adoption of AI-enabled solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead hands on development of AI, agentic systems and support of scalable, reusable AI platform capabilities
• Help integrate large language models, AI services, agent frameworks, workflow engines, knowledge bases, and orchestration platforms
• Turn target-state architecture and product priorities into clear technical designs, delivery plans, and working solutions
• Provide day-to-day technical direction to junior engineers and vendors teams, reviewing code while maintaining accountability for delivery quality
• Build and integrate APIs, services, event-driven workflows, data pipelines, agent workflows, and user-facing platform capabilities
• Partner with product, business, architecture, and engineering teams to refine requirements, identify dependencies, and deliver incremental value
• Support migration of existing components toward the future-state architecture while maintaining operational continuity
• Contribute to AI frameworks and agent workflows
• Identify technical risks early, challenge assumptions constructively, and recommend pragmatic trade-offs across build, buy, partner, and reuse options
• Mentor junior engineers, help strengthen engineering practices, and promote a culture of quality, collaboration, inclusion, and continuous learning
• Ensure solutions align with Mastercard technology standards and expectations for architecture, security, privacy, compliance, reliability, and scale