42 Software Engineering jobs in Ireland

**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
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 Settlement Program provides vital systems and services to the Mastercard Treasury and Finance team in support of global payments/customer funds movement, treasury operations, liquidity, foreign exchange, risk management and capital management. We are directly responsible for moving billions of dollars each day between our customers. We are an agile development organization with teams located in both St. Louis, Missouri, Dublin, Ireland and Pune, India.
Role:
Overview
- Responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions
- Defines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices
Responsibilities
- Formally supervise and coach 2+ teams of engineers to build, enhance, and support multiple applications/services in the delivery of internal or market-facing Products, Platforms, or Product bundles
- Work with business/product owners to develop and deliver on new services to introduce new products and bundles
- Ensure objectives and development plans are established at the start of the year and reviewed continuously throughout the year
- Recruit and hire the right talent, always bringing in someone better than at least half the individuals in the role
- Continuously engage and improve teams' performance by conducting recurring 1-1 meetings, knowing your people, managing career development, and understanding who is at risk
- Provide and facilitate timely feedback, coaching in the moment, and mentoring for staff at all levels
- Emulate and drive Mastercard Way behaviors through their behavior, recognitions, coaching, and employee engagement
- Manage and optimize budgets, forecasting, and cost allocation while delivering on business needs in the area of ownership
- Provide strategic thinking and leadership related to a wide range of applications and systems, or software-development methodologies
- Benchmark and drive engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance in the areas of ownership
- Proactively share and seek knowledge within their Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns/libraries/practices and enhance productivity
About You:
- IT experience with successful track record in managing small scale development organization (2+ teams) with demonstrated thought-leadership, cross-functional influence, and partnership
- Progressively grown career with proven design and development experiences in multiple languages, secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT), and vulnerability management.
- Has skills in building applications using open frameworks to achieve reuse and reduce development times (e.g., Spring Boot, Steeltoe, Angular, DXP, others)
- Understands internals of operating systems (Windows, Linux) to deliver interoperable and performant code
- Able to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors
- Has skills to document and coach team on the development practices and coding guidelines (e.g., branching, peer reviews, library use, logging, scanning rules, test-driven development, error handling)
- Understands use cases for advanced design patterns (e.g., service-to-worker, MVC, API gateway, intercepting filter, dependency injection, lazy loading, all from the gang of four) to implement efficient code
- Has skills to undertake a technical review of code across applications and their dependencies to look for anti-patterns and promote continuous refactoring
- Understands and elaborates technical debt and operational issues to drive prioritization discussions with stakeholders to improve the run experience
- Understands system architecture to plan for platform and infrastructure capacity (e.g., database, compute, network, storage) and drives the dependency prioritization to reduce the delivery lead time
- Has skills to understand customer journeys and ensure a good customer experience by continuously reducing mean time to mitigate (MTTM) for incidents and ensuring high availability (99.95% as a starting point)
- Has skills to simplify deployment and eliminate software and infrastructure snowflakes using standardized platforms, ephemeral instances, and automation
- Has skills to orchestrate release workflows and pipelines and apply standardized pipelines via APIs to achieve CI and CD using industry-standard tools (e.g., Jenkins, Bamboo, AWS/Azure pipelines, XL Release, others)
- Able to configure rules and build automation for code with vulnerability scanning and software composition analysis using standard tools (e.g., Sonar, Checkmarx, Nexus, JFrog XRay, Veracode, others)
- Has skills to define, organize, and report on test runs for major, minor, and hotfix releases (including unit, component level, system level, customer journeys, past customer issues, and regulatory controls)
- Has skills to conduct various performance tests (e.g., load, spike, breakpoint, endurance) to understand application/service limits and behaviors
**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.

About the Business:
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions provides customers with solutions and decision tools that combine public and industry specific content with advanced technology and analytics to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency. We use the power of data and advanced analytics to help our customers make better, timelier decisions. By bringing clarity to information, we ultimately help make communities safer, insurance rates more accurate , commerce more transparent, business decisions easier and processes more efficient.
About our Team:
By joining us you will have the opportunity to share ownership in solving this problem end to end. You will be connecting and importing different data sources, extracting more value from existing data sources, and delivering insight to our customers in a high resilience and time sensitive manner 24/7. We process thousands of data transactions per second from terabytes of data that have a direct impact on the revenue of our customers, which require creative solutions to ensure reliable and scalable systems geared for future growth.
About the Role:
What we are looking for is someone with sound technical knowledge to help guide and grow a team of software -, DevOps- engineers, and quality assurance specialists while ensuring quality products are delivered on time .
This position serves as a subject matter expert for a specific team of Software Engineers. In addition to writing code on complex systems and applications, this position provides direction on project plans, schedules, and methodologies. The position has direct reports.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the initial point of escalation for software development issues within specific area of responsibility. - Interface with other technical personnel or team members to finalize requirements. - Write and review portions of detailed specifications for the development of system components of moderate complexity. - Work closely with other development team members to understand moderately complex product requirements and translate them into software designs. - Successfully implement development processes, coding best practices, and code reviews. - Operate in various development environments (Agile, Waterfall, etc.) while collaborating with key stakeholders. - Design and work with complex data models. - Carry out management responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies, procedures, and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; and addressing complaints and resolving problems.
Requirements:
- Ability to design and work with complex data models. - Strong Proficiency in Java/J2EE development language, Design Patterns
- Experience to Spring Framework
- Strong Proficiency on working in AWS
- Strong Proficiency with up to date security tools, secure design patterns and advocate for SSDLC
- Familiarity with BDD methodology
- Ability to write and review portions of detailed specifications for the development of complex system components. - Strong organization/project planning, time management, and change management skills. - Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
Working for you:
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer: ● Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days ● Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits ● Wellbeing programs ● Life assurance ● Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme ● Save As You Earn share option scheme ● Travel Season ticket loan ● Electric Vehicle Scheme ● Optional Dental Insurance ● Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave ● Employee Assistance Programme ● Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children ● RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you ● Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer ● Access to extensive learning and development resources ● Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work
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RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.
Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions.
Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.

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.

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build asustainableeconomy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactionssecure, 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.

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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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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.

Come join us. For more information, visit us on the web at Quest Careers Where next meets now. Join Quest.

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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**
Director of Software Engineering
Job Overview: Position with extensive understanding and knowledge of software operations with solid knowledge of required services. Provides management direction and recommends strategic directions based on established policy. Leads and manages staff and assures staffing, training and objective setting. Recommends policy changes and implementations. Interacts with developers and requestors to identify scope of project.
Role
Software requirements management. -Project planning and control -Ensure approved staffing levels are maintained, departmental and staff education, training and cross training needs are met. -Ensure that staff has skills and behaviors to perform tasks fully through effective communication of goals, objectives, performance and as necessary improvement plans. -Ensure development, review and implementation of policy changes based on approved recommendations with minimal customer or staff interruption. -Review and approve the development or revision of operational processes and procedures. -Recommend annual cost center budget and ensure appropriate expenditures within that approved budget. -Recommend strategic direction and policy changes. -Advance operational and business concerns or issues relative to future business programs, projects, or enhancements that may affect consistent delivery of quality services.
Education: Bachelor's Degree in related functional area or equivalent work experience with exposure to management theories and concepts.
All About You
Budget and financial management experience.
Years experience with software solutions delivery -Experience preparing & delivering executive level presentations to business and technology audiences. -Experience mentoring and developing resources in a high performance culture. Skills/ Abilities: -Ability to translate highly complex technical matters into easily digestible and actionable plans. -Advanced knowledge of business or function. -Requires the ability to lead and manage senior technical individual contributor and management staffs with the ability to foster open communications across various organizational levels. Requires skills to motivate direct and indirect reports to deliver superior results. -Requires the skills to provide functional and directional guidance to staff and recommend policy or strategic direction changes to management. -Requires the ability to interact across multiple organizational levels and assume a lead role and set direction for large or complex projects.
**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.

Optum is a global organisation that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start **Caring. Connecting. Growing together.**
In healthcare, evolution doesn't just happen. It takes innovation, imagination, and a passion for solving problems in new and better ways. And innovation is taking place at a lightning-fast pace every day at Optum.
As the fastest growing part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, we're expanding our team in Ireland and creating excellent opportunities for those who want greater purpose and more impact in their work. We'll provide the investment, support, and resources to advance your career. You'll provide the talent, ambition, and drive.
The Director of Software Engineering is a key leadership role within the Optum Product Engineering leadership team. As a director you will set technology strategy for your managers and influence the direction of our products and teams. We are looking for a collaborative self-starter who can take ownership and passionately drive results. In addition to having impact on a great team, you'll also discover the career opportunities you'd expect from an Industry Leader.
**Schedule:** Full-time position with standard working hours of Monday - Friday, standard business hours.
_Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin_ _or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model._
**Primary Responsibilities:**
+ Driving technology strategy and tracking MBO's for multiple software engineering teams
+ Building high performing teams and leaders that can deliver high-quality software and business value
+ Champions the usage of modern agile tools, processes, best practices, modernization, training, etc
+ Driving a strong and professional engineering culture at the leadership and team level
+ Partners with product management to build roadmaps that will achieve business success including the measurement of success
+ Managing the budget and forecasts at the group level
+ Influencing leaders, partners and dependency teams to drive success
+ Stay abreast of leading-edge technologies in the industry, evaluating emerging software technologies and evangelizing their adoption
_You will be rewarded and recognised for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role, as well as providing development for other roles you may be interested in._
**Required Qualifications:**
+ Professional **engineering leadership experience in a commercial product development environment**
+ **Experience leading teams directly (ability to apply process, design, engineering principles, and tools to solve technical or market challenges) and through coaching/mentoring of engineers**
+ **Experience delivering software and services on Public and/or Private Cloud platforms (Azure preferred)**
+ **Experience setting technology strategy for managers and projects to drive measurable outcomes**
+ **Proven track record being wholly accountable to customer-facing applications and their SLA's/SLO's**
+ **Understanding of production infrastructure and application maintenance**
**Preferred Qualifications:**
+ **Experience in cloud cost management and optimization**
+ **Knowledge of Optum businesses, critical enterprise platforms, and their related analytic needs is beneficial**
**Soft Skills:**
+ I **nterpersonal skills, passion around facilitation, empowerment and servant leadership**
**Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.**
_All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy._
_At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalised groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission._
_Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2025 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved._
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