Manager, Platform Engineering - Big Data & Cloud

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title And Summary

Manager, Platform Engineering - Big Data Engineering

Overview

The Manager, Platform Engineering leads a team responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable, secure, and resilient platform infrastructure. This role combines hands-on technical leadership across Mastercard’s Big Data Engineering team with people management responsibilities, enabling teams to deliver high-quality solutions aligned to enterprise priorities.

This leader will drive adoption of modern engineering practices, including infrastructure as code, container platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and microservices architectures, while fostering a high-performing, collaborative team environment.

Role

Platform & Cloud Engineering Leadership

• Lead the design and delivery of cloud infrastructure solutions that meet scalability, resilience, security, and cost efficiency requirements
• Oversee the development and operation of container platforms and orchestration environments (e.g., Kubernetes)
• Ensure platform capabilities support evolving application performance and business needs

• Establish and mature CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows to enable efficient, high-quality software delivery
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure consistent, automated infrastructure provisioning and management
• Champion automation, reducing manual processes and increasing reliability and speed

• Guide teams in building and operating distributed systems and microservices architectures
• Ensure systems are designed for fault tolerance, scalability, and performance
• Oversee monitoring, observability, and operational health across platform services

• Provide technical direction across software programming practices and frameworks
• Ensure engineering solutions meet standards for performance, maintainability, and reliability
• Partner with application teams to align platform capabilities with development needs

• Oversee management of operating systems and core IT infrastructure components (compute, storage, networking)
• Ensure platform environments are stable, performant, and aligned with enterprise standards

• Build and develop a high-performing, inclusive engineering team
• Provide coaching, feedback, and growth opportunities for team members
• Support hiring and talent development aligned to future capability needs

• Delivers Results:
  Drives accountability and execution against business objectives
• Navigates Complexity:
  Leads teams through ambiguity and cross-functional dependencies
• Drives Change:
  Promotes new technologies, tools, and ways of working
• Fosters Enterprise Mindset:
  Connects team output to broader organizational impact
• Shapes Strategy (Developing):
  Contributes to platform and technology strategy through insights and innovation

• Experience leading high performing engineering teams with a customer-focused mindset.…