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 DevOps & Automation - 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 Distributed Systems & Microservices - 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 Software Engineering & Technical Enablement - 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 Infrastructure & Operating Systems - Oversee management of operating systems and core IT infrastructure components (compute, storage, networking) - Ensure platform environments are stable, performant, and aligned with enterprise standards

People Leadership & Enterprise Mindset This role includes direct people leadership with developing proficiency in leadership capabilities: Team Leadership - 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 Enterprise Leadership Behaviors - 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

All About You Required

Qualifications - Experience leading high performing engineering teams with a customer-focused mindset. Attracts, grows, and develops exceptional, future-ready talent in a platform, cloud, or DevOps environment - Strong expertise across Big Data platforms and technologies such as Hadoop, Cloudera, etc. - Experience managing or operating distributed systems and microservices architectures - Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Go) - Strong understanding of operating systems and enterprise IT infrastructure - Experience integrating security requirements into platform engineering practices

Preferred

Qualifications - Experience in enterprise-scale or regulated environments - Experience optimizing cloud cost, performance, and scalability