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**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 Software Engineering
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
- The Decision Management program enables intelligent decision-based products through streaming analytics with the ability to govern these decisions and manage their outcomes with business agility.
- This program leverages business rules & AI engines, a streaming big data cluster, an in-memory data grids, APIs, & UIs to deliver real time decisions at global scale
We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager/Engineering Lead to join our DMP team for the Decision Operations product in Dublin office.
- Are you a people manager and technical programmer with experience working on high performance applications?
- Do you want to be part of a team which helps prevent fraud on every Mastercard transaction in this world?
Role
- Technically lead a development team to code scalable, reliable, maintainable, and secure Java decision operations applications
- Plan, design and develop technical solutions and alternatives to meet business requirements in adherence with MasterCard standards, engineering principles, processes, and best practices
- Provide strong people leadership and technical guidance to team - lead with a technical vision prioritizing business value
- Lead by example with hands-on approaches that demonstrate engineering excellence.
- Work closely with director, product manager, technical leads and architects to align on objectives and architecture guidelines
- Ensure successful delivery of software capabilities adhering to SAFe Agile processes and ceremonies
- Take ownership of complex problems and production incidents with dependencies across services and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive timely resolution.
- Possess the aptitude to quickly learn and contribute to our complex platform
- Perform code reviews to ensure best practices
- Foster a blameless postmortems culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement corrective and preventive measures.
- Establish effective partnerships and relationships across multiple organizations
- Encourage knowledge sharing and collaboration within your Guild/Program to drive the reuse of patterns, libraries, and best practices, enhancing overall productivity.
All About You
- Proven track record of delivering results with available resources and developing a high performing development team
- A strong technical leader who can effectively communicate your vision and roadmap to a wide variety of stakeholders and successfully engage your development team
- Proficient programming skills with a deep understanding of Java, SQL, Linux, Spring Framework
- Experience working with highly scalable, reliable, maintainable, performant and secure applications
- Solid expertise in unit testing and familiarity with mocking frameworks like JUnit, Mockito
- Capability to identify and analyze user requirements, clarify requirements with the team, and provide high level solution and estimates.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- Desirable skills - experience working with Kafka, Redis, Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus
Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position must:
- Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
- Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.
**Corporate Security Responsibility**
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
+ Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
+ Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
+ Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
+ Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

**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, Software Engineering
Job Title
Manager, Software Development Engineering (Commercial Solutions)
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
The Mastercard Commercial Solutions team in Dublin have an exciting opportunity for a Manager of Software Development to help further grow our organization by enabling teams to enhance and modernize our Commercial business-to-business (B2B) digital payments services. This position will be key to growing a global B2B technology platform, operating at-scale, requiring focus on performance, security, and reliability.
Role
As Manager, Software Development Engineering you will manage scrum teams building commercial Java-based, distributed, highly available applications.
- Take a product initiative from requirements to production
- Lead and guide an agile teams of scrum masters, business analysts, developers and testers to deliver software that meets business objectives
- Oversee effective development and delivery of software solutions
- Collaborate with the Product Owners, Business/Tech Operations, and other stakeholders
- Drive positive change within systems/process to optimally deliver on commitments
- Drive agile best practices amongst the teams
- Drive your team's capability and performance through coaching, mentoring, performance feedback and career development
- Communication of status/progress to product teams/customers/senior management
- Contribute to the knowledge of the software development guild
All About You
- Experience with managing development teams in a multi-team environment, and experience with remote management
- Experience with applying Scrum or SAFe Agile in a product development environment where high levels of performance, reliability and security are essential
- Great communicator with proven experience in collaborating with business stakeholders
- Payments and fintech experience will be an advantage when it comes to compliance requirements such as PCI DSS
- Experience with the following technologies is a distinct advantage:
- Java/Spring/Hibernate
- RESTful APIs
- RDBMS such as Oracle and Postgres
**Corporate Security Responsibility**
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
+ Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
+ Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
+ Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
+ Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

**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, Software Engineering
Overview
Mastercard Developers ( is the primary API platform for Mastercard partners to access a diverse range of payment, data, loyalty, and security APIs. The team is responsible for delivering an experience that ensures developers can quickly find the right API, assess its technical capabilities and integrate it into new and innovative solutions. Mastercard Developers is looking for a technical engineering manager to lead and grow our engineering team while remaining hands-on with code and architecture.
- Would you enjoy leading and growing a team of engineers in an evolving Enterprise environment?
- Do you have a strong background in developing and delivering high volume web services?
- Are you passionate about building high-performing teams that deliver exceptional, scalable software?
- Are you excited about the technical challenges of API platform design and architecture?
- Do you want to be part of one of the most exciting global initiatives in Mastercard right now?
Role
- Lead and manage a team of 4-8 engineers while remaining technically hands-on
- Drive planning, design and implementation of technical solutions for global customers (internal and external)
- Recruit, mentor, and develop engineering talent; conduct performance reviews and career development
- Continually ideate, scope, develop, deliver, test and iterate features for the constantly evolving and growing Mastercard Developers
- Ensure appropriate levels of automation are adopted (build, deploy, configure, validate, monitor)
- Liaise with other global technology, data, operations teams to execute
- Act as subject matter expert for Mastercard Developers API Platform and services to support customer integrations
- Foster team collaboration, remove blockers, and maintain high engineering standards
All About You
- 8+ years of backend development experience with 3+ years of technical team leadership
- Very strong Java and object-oriented design and development skills with active coding capability
- Knowledge of Kotlin is a plus as it is one of our primary language for backend services
- Strong fundamentals of Spring Boot, microservices and SQL based database (Oracle and PostgreSQL)
- Proven track record in API based products and team management
- You care about both technical architecture/design AND developing people - ensuring solutions are flexibly designed while growing engineering talent
- Experienced working in an Agile environment with a global team that makes frequent production releases
- Experience managing engineers in a hands-on capacity, balancing individual contribution with team leadership
- Background in Dev/Ops a distinct advantage
- Background in automation a distinct advantage
- Experience in designing and delivering APIs and security models an advantage
- You strive to create highly intuitive and responsive products while building high-performing teams
**Corporate Security Responsibility**
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
+ Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
+ Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
+ Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
+ Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

**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**
Director, Software Engineering
Overview
The Transfer Solutions group is responsible for designing, building, and operating the technology that powers Mastercard's next-generation payment applications-domestic, Cross-Border, and Bill Payments.
We are seeking a Director, Software Engineering, to join our Dublin team, focusing on building and operating our Cross-Border payments platform, specifically in the Treasury Management domain. We build software that can be deployed on private or public cloud. In this role, you will design and build software that scales to global markets, enabling secure, seamless, and always available cross-border payments. This is an exciting engineering leadership role working with a global team passionate about the solutions we deliver to our customers.
Role
In this role, you will drive collaboration across engineering, product management, enterprise functions, and regional business teams. You will also lead by defining the technical strategy, architecture, design, and execution to achieve outcomes iteratively.
As a Director of Software Engineering, you will:
Strategic Leadership & Execution
- Define and drive the engineering strategy in alignment with company objectives.
- Lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, scalable software products on time and within budget
- Champion engineering best practices, including DevOps, CI/CD, and agile methodologies.
Identify and mitigate technical and delivery risks across programs and initiatives.
People Leadership & Coaching
- Build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering teams through career development, coaching, and performance management.
- Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous learning.
- Set clear goals and expectations and provide regular feedback and development plans.
Operational Excellence
- Own the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle, from requirements through release and support.
- Continuously improve engineering processes, tools, and metrics to optimize team performance and product quality.
- Ensure operational readiness, including incident response, monitoring, and service reliability.
Collaboration & Communication
- Partner with Product, Operations, and Business stakeholders to define scope, priorities, and roadmaps.
- Communicate technical vision and progress to executive leadership and non-technical stakeholders.
- Represent engineering in strategic planning and budgeting discussions.
Skills
Experience building and operating scalable global platforms with high throughput with 5 9's availability.
In-depth knowledge of Java, Spring framework, persistence and messaging technologies, and testing methodologies and tools.
In-depth knowledge of Public Cloud platforms, containers, and container orchestration.
Good working knowledge of cryptography functions and PKI infrastructure.
All About You
Hands-on technical leader who consistently demonstrates leadership, builds trust, focuses on talent development and inspires the team.
Must be high-energy, detail-oriented and proactive with the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment.
Have a passion for continuous learning and enjoy challenging opportunities.
Exceptional leadership skills with the ability to inspire and influence across all levels of the organization.
Experience presenting to executive audiences and driving alignment across diverse stakeholders.
Drives outcomes through strong commitment to timely delivery of key objectives.
Have strong decision-making skills, lead retrospection and continually improve as a result.
Strong grasp of software operations, including monitoring, incident management, and performance tuning.
Experience managing budgets, forecasting, and resource planning.
**Corporate Security Responsibility**
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
+ Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
+ Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
+ Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
+ Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

**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, Software Engineering
Job Description Summary
Manager, Software Engineering - Small & Medium Enterprise Engineering
Mastercard is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to drive innovation and build cutting-edge solutions within the Small & Medium Enterprise (SME) Engineering group. In this pivotal leadership role, you will shape technical strategies, guide engineering teams, and deliver scalable, high-performing software solutions that empower small and medium-sized businesses worldwide.
As a Manager, Software Engineering, you will play a crucial role in Mastercard's mission to create value, grow together, and move fast by fostering a culture of decency, inclusion, and innovation. You will leverage Mastercard's robust technology ecosystem to develop APIs, cloud-native solutions, and distributed systems that redefine the SME landscap
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Design and develop scalable, resilient, and secure software solutions aligned with Mastercard's standards and best practices.
- Drive architectural decisions, adopting design patterns that optimize performance, maintainability, and cost-effectiveness.
- Lead Proof of Concepts (PoCs) to assess emerging technologies and recommend strategic directions.
- Champion API-first development, ensuring seamless integration within Mastercard's ecosystem.
Innovation & Strategy
- Identify growth opportunities within the SME space by leveraging Mastercard's technology portfolio.
- Spearhead enterprise-wide initiatives, ensuring successful execution of complex, multi-program projects.
Collaboration & Cross-functional Engagement
- Partner with business and product teams to define technical roadmaps and align engineering efforts with Mastercard's SME strategy.
- Engage with security and compliance teams to ensure adherence to Mastercard's regulatory and security frameworks.
- Work closely with global engineering and operations teams to deliver solutions that meet performance and scalability requirements.
Mentorship & Engineering Excellence
- Lead and mentor software engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
- Conduct code reviews, technical deep-dives, and troubleshooting sessions to uphold engineering quality.
- Establish documentation and knowledge-sharing frameworks to streamline development practices.
Required Skills & Experience
Core Technical Expertise
- Programming: Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, and object-oriented design principles.
- Experience in React, Node.js, or full-stack development.
- Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures
- API Development: Hands-on experience with RESTful API design, SDK development, and API
security best practices.
- Cloud & DevOps: Strong expertise in Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Microservices & Distributed Systems: Deep understanding of domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, and high-resilience distributed systems.
- Containerization & Orchestration: Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and service mesh technologies.
- Databases: Expertise in PostgreSQL, NoSQL databases, and optimizing data performance at scale.
- Security & Compliance: Knowledge of vulnerability management, authentication mechanisms, and regulatory compliance.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Proven ability to lead Agile teams, drive sprint planning, and resolve technical blockers.
- Exceptional problem-solving and debugging skills, with experience in root cause analysis (RCA) and performance optimization.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, capable of influencing stakeholders and articulating technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Mentorship mindset, fostering a collaborative engineering culture through coaching and best practice adoption.
- People management experience essential
Nice to Have
- Contribution to technical blogs, public speaking, or thought leadership initiatives.
**Corporate Security Responsibility**
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
+ Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
+ Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
+ Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
+ Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

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Director, Software Engineering

Location: Vilnius, Lithuania (Hybrid/ Office) OR Ireland

Position Summary

Bentley Systems is seeking an exceptional candidate to become a valued member of our leadership team as Director, Software Engineering for its Synchro product suite. As a key member of the leadership team, the Director, Software Engineering will be responsible for leading a team of 35, fostering software engineering excellence across the Synchro portfolio to ensure that our product visions are fulfilled with exceptional quality and operational excellence delivering the best in class solutions to Bentley's users and partners.

The Director, Software Engineering will have experience in bringing AI enriched products and services to market with strong technical understanding of the fundamentals of machine learning and operating and managing AI based cloud services.

Responsibilities:

Leads a cross-functional, multi-product engineering team that focuses on software development, quality assurance testing, and performance engineering with a DevOps mentality.

Owns the overall technical vision and execution strategy for the teams, being accountable for the timely delivery of high-quality, and consistent product solutions to market.

Heavily engage with Product Management & Business stakeholders at all levels to execute product roadmaps and meet company objectives.

Experience of translating business strategy and operating models; can apply gap analysis techniques to create long-term technical strategy.

Integrate and deliver an AI centric roadmap to enhance and modernise our existing customer experiences.

Democratise AI development within the engineering team, through training, mentoring and leading by example.

Create and maintain technical roadmap and architectural development models for the organization.

Can effectively mentor the team on our guiding principles and standards; while leading technical change and transformation.

Responsible for progressively building people, processes and technologies that are scalable, resilient, and "future-proof".

Foster "Extreme Ownership" for work done by the engineering organization through build-measure-learn feedback loops and real-time KPI's.

Define, implement, monitor, and report relevant performance indicators of Define standard processes along the user and product lifecycles; run some of these processes directly, e.g. product launch.

Partner with HR on long-term workforce planning, location strategy, talent and succession management, role/comp standardization, training, and change management.

Oversee all aspects of people management for the Synchro engineering team, including recruitment, skill development, compensation planning, performance feedback, and performance management.

Qualifications:

At least 10+ years of professional experience in software development

At least 5 years leading large commercial product development teams of 20+ people

Experience in delivering both Software-as-a-Service and Managed-as-a-Service solutions

Experience in driving execution across large, cross-functional and global organizations

Fluency in Agile, DevOps, Build-Measure-Learn and modern software development lifecycle methods with a passion for organizing teams and driving for productivity

An understanding of engineering and construction workflows and the technology landscape used to deliver infrastructure projects would be highly advantageous

Business Acumen and technical competence to approach technology issues from a business perspective along with a natural grasp of how to design, build, code and run cloud platforms that support business objectives.

Change management - Know how to apply architecture patterns like the Strangler pattern to decompose legacy apps

Continuous deployment methodologies such as DevOps and DevSecOps

Experience in developing Windows Desktop client applications

Experience in bringing AI focused products and services to market.

Proficient with following programming languages - Typescript, C#, C++, Python

An exciting career as an integral part of a world-leading software company providing solutions for architecture, engineering, and construction - watch thisshort documentary about how we got our start.

An attractive salary and benefits package.

A commitment to inclusion, belonging and colleague wellbeing through global initiatives and resource groups.

A company committed to making a real difference by advancing the world's infrastructure for better quality of life, where your contributions help build a more sustainable, connected, and resilient world. Discover our latest user successstories for an insight into our global impact.

Please note if you are employed full-time, the salary for this position ranges from 6,800 EUR gross (before taxes-Lithuania) depending on knowledge and experience.

Please submit resume in English.

About Bentley Systems

Around the world, infrastructure professionals rely on software from Bentley Systems to help them design, build, and operate better and more resilient infrastructure for transportation, water, energy, cities, and more. Founded in 1984 by engineers for engineers, Bentley is the partner of choice for engineering firms and owner-operators worldwide, with software that spans engineering disciplines, industry sectors, and all phases of the infrastructure lifecycle. Through our digital twin solutions, we help infrastructure professionals unlock the value of their data to transform project delivery and asset performance.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Bentley is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers for employment all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, religion/belief, national origin, caste, age, or any other characteristic protected by local law or unrelated to job qualifications.

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If you are passionate about building and scaling foundational systems under real-world operational pressure, and you are excited about leading global, high-performing teams through the challenges of real-time threat detection at scale, driving technical innovation, and fostering operational and organisational resilience, we would love to meet you.

About the Team
Cyber threats are becoming more sophisticated, frequent, and damaging, challenging organisations to stay ahead of attackers in an increasingly complex digital landscape. Detection and Response is one of the fastest-evolving and most critical areas within cybersecurity, where real-time threat detection, rapid investigation, and automated response are essential to reducing risk and minimizing impact.

This role offers the opportunity to lead mission-critical engineering teams focused on the technical heart of Rapid7's Detection and Response platform: Log Search (our proprietary search and indexing system), the network sensor engineering team, and our Site Reliability Engineering function for Detection & Response.

About the Role

Success in this role will require deep technical expertise in high-scale distributed systems, search technologies, networking, observability, and cloud-native reliability practices, combined with proven leadership experience in scaling teams, aligning engineering and product strategy, and driving operational and cultural excellence across a complex organisation.

As a Director, Software Engineering, Detection & Response, your primary responsibility will be to lead the strategic vision, development, and execution of scalable security detection and incident response systems, ensuring the protection of organisational assets while fostering a high-performing engineering team. Specifically, your focus will be to:

• Develop and maintain technical execution plans aligned to roadmap goals, driving high standards for delivery quality, resilience, and performance.

• Lead engineering teams responsible for Log Search (Rapid7's proprietary search and indexing technology), network sensor engineering, and site reliability operations.

• Drive technical excellence in search architecture, distributed systems, networking, observability, and operational tooling.

• Partner closely with Product Management, UX, and Customer Success to align engineering priorities with customer needs and product vision.

• Ensure scalable, cloud-native development, testing, and deployment processes that support the platform's growth and resilience.

• Invest in the growth and development of technical leadership within the team, building a strong, thriving engineering culture.

• Engage with customers and internal stakeholders to gather feedback, remove friction, and drive improvements across the platform.

• Champion operational excellence initiatives including system health, availability, disaster recovery, and incident management practices.

• Collaborate cross-functionally to improve product quality, customer experience, and engineering scalability.

The skills and qualities you'll bring include:

• 8+ years of engineering leadership experience, including experience managing complex platform technologies at scale.

• Strong computer science fundamentals, particularly in areas such as high performance data processing, search, storage, data indexing, distributed systems, network protocols, telemetry, and cloud architecture.

• Experience building and operating complex backend systems, large-scale data stores, network telemetry pipelines, or reliability engineering frameworks.

• Track record of growing and leading high-performing, geographically distributed technical teams across multiple disciplines.

• Ability to work cross-functionally and influence Product, Support, Customer Success, and Strategy teams to drive alignment around customer outcomes.

• History of engaging directly with customers and translating feedback into product and operational improvements.

• Proven ability to deliver high-quality, scalable platforms in fast-paced, continuous deployment environments.

• Strong facility for recognising emerging trends in cloud security and detection and response, and evolving technical strategies to match.

• Prior experience leading projects featuring high performance computing, search technologies, network data ingestion, or SRE teams strongly preferred.

• Track record of retaining, developing, motivating, and mentoring highly effective technical teams.

• Deep commitment to operational excellence, system resilience, and proactive improvement initiatives.

• Ability to drive clarity, quality, and innovation across diverse engineering teams.

• Embody our core values to foster a culture of excellence that drives meaningful impact and collective success.

We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. That's because these teams reflect a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don't be shy - apply today.

About Rapid7

At Rapid7, our vision is to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by harnessing our collective expertise and passion to challenge what's possible and drive extraordinary impact. We're building a dynamic and collaborative workplace where new ideas are welcome.

Protecting 11,000+ customers against bad actors and threats means we're continuing to push the envelope - just like we've been doing for the past 20 years. If you're ready to solve some of the toughest challenges in cybersecurity, we're ready to help you take command of your career. Join us.

Overview

Quest's Software Center for Advanced AI Architecture in Cork, Ireland is seeking experienced engineers ready to take ownership of critical AI infrastructure and deployment systems. As the central hub for AI innovation across Quest's entire SaaS platform ecosystem, it will shape the future of enterprise AI solutions that serve millions of users worldwide.

Ready to drive your own AI engineering projects while making a direct impact on production systems? As part of our Software Center for Advanced AI Architecture, you'll independently design and implement scalable AI solutions using cutting-edge deployment technologies and cloud-native architecture. You'll have the opportunity to own complete system components, collaborate closely with data scientists to productionize models, and mentor junior engineers while continuing to expand your technical expertise. If you're looking to move beyond implementing others' designs to architecting your own AI solutions, this is where you make that transition.

As an AI Engineering Director you will lead a team of Software Engineers and Data Scientists to design, develop, and deploy cutting-edge AI solutions across industries. Drive innovation, ensure high-quality development practices, and align AI initiatives with business goals.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of developers focused on AI solutions.
• Oversee project planning, execution, and delivery.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify AI integration opportunities.
• Maintain strong knowledge of AI technologies and trends.
• Ensure adherence to agile methodologies and software development best practices.
• Manage budgets, timelines, and risk mitigation.
• Collaborate with product managers and executives to shape technical vision.
• Represent the organization at industry events and conferences.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
• Ensure compliance with ethical AI practices and data governance.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of software development experience, with 3+ years in a leadership role.
• Proven experience with AI/ML technologies and real-world implementations. Deep expertise in AI/ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, LLMs).
• Strong communication, leadership, and team-building skills.
• Experience in agile environments and managing multiple concurrent projects.
• Strong architectural and strategic thinking.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and AI model deployment.
• Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure is preferred, AWS, GCP)

Company Description

At Quest, we create and manage the software that makes the benefits of new technology real. Companies turn to us to manage, modernize and secure their business, from on-prem to in-cloud, from the heart of the network to the vulnerable endpoints. From complex challenges like Active Directory management and Office 365 migration, to database and systems management, to redefining security, and hundreds of needs in between, we help you conquer your next challenge now.

We're not the company that makes big promises. We're the company that fulfills them.

We're Quest: Where Next Meets Now.

Why work with us!

• Life at Quest means collaborating with dedicated professionals with a passion for technology.
• When we see something that could be improved, we get to work inventing the solution.
• Our people demonstrate our winning culture through positive and meaningful relationship.
• We invest in our people and offer a series of programs that enables them to pursue a career that fulfills their potential.
• Our team members' health and wellness is our priority as well as rewarding them for their hard work.

Quest is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

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