Mastercard

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

Senior Technical Program Manager

Who is Mastercard?

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better business results.

Technology at Mastercard

What we create today will define tomorrow. Revolutionary technologies that reshape the digital economy to be more connected and inclusive than ever before. Safer, faster, more sustainable.

And we need the best people to do it. Technologists who are energized by the challenges of a truly global network. With the talent and vision to create the critical systems and products that power global commerce and connect people everywhere to the vital goods and services they need every day.

Working at Mastercard means being part of a unique culture. Inclusive and diverse, a rich collaboration of ideas and perspectives. A place that celebrates your strengths, values your experiences, and offers you the flexibility to shape a career across disciplines and continents. And the opportunity to work alongside experts and leaders at every level of the business, improving what exists, and inventing what’s next.

About the role

This position is a member of the STRM - Security Threat and Response Management .

Plan and manage a group of related technology projects, initiatives and activities in a coordinated way from inception through successful delivery with deep understanding of the business and technical requirements for the solutions being built and understand the needs of the engineers and technical operations teams who have to build, maintain, and operate the system for the life of the system.

All staff at Mastercard are expected to demonstrate 'Mastercard Way' cultural values every day - own it, simplify it, sense of urgency, thoughtful risk-taking, unlock potential, and be inclusive – with a relentless focus on our customers. As a Lead Technical Program Manager at Mastercard, you are expected to perform the following general responsibilities:

• Align dependent organizations and other stakeholders as required to remove/mitigate all blocking issues.
• Conceptualize, rationalize, and drive execution of features to deliver engineering work across the portfolio in our scrum execution model
• Management and execution against delivery plans and commitments
• Operates in an Agile/Scrum environment, working across delivery squads, release roadmaps, associated OKRs, and collaboration with members of the product team
• Organizes and accelerates a group of related technology projects or activities across multiple teams, aligning dependent organizations
• Recognizes complexity and creates predictable delivery paths for large and/or complex efforts. Measurably improves, streamlines, and/or eliminates excess processes
• Works with multiple scrum/delivery teams to build/improve ways of working and identify and mitigate risks or issues that may impact the plan
• Conducts meaningful retrospectives; processes and recommends actions for the team to take, along with communicating pain points outside the team’s control to leadership
• Clearly articulate scope, timelines, dependencies, owners, and actions. Report progress to teams and senior leadership in regular cadence
• Understands the business strategy and design approaches within product, program, or domain with depth to be credible and influential with teams they work with
• Looked to as first point of contact for your team or area and the source of truth for status, providing the correct information and associated data about the state of the project to the right audience at the right time

All about you

• Help business and the engineering teams make trade-off decisions by considering all of the data including business objectives, technical platform strategy
• Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels
• Demonstrated ability to operate with independence and autonomy
• Prior experience defining and building technical products as a platform at scale with a deep understanding of those platforms' capabilities and underlying technologies
• Coordination and organization skills and the ability to work with multiple stakeholders and vendors across locations to ensure success of the project.
• Technical capability to effectively solve software engineering challenges, communicate with engineers, scope technical programs, and identify technical risks.
• Proven track record of data driven decision-making and applying continuous improvement methodologies across teams
• Enjoys diving deep to understand platforms' capabilities and underlying technologies
• Expertise in cyber security, third party software management is huge plus along with expertise in CI/CD, databases, microservices APIs, and distributed systems.
• Experience operating in an agile delivery model, including but not limited to sprints, releases, managing dependencies, roadmaps, and backlog prioritization.

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.