Senior Technical Program Manager-1

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-1

Overview

At Mastercard, our industry expertise is enhanced by our commitment to being a force for good in the world. We do well by doing good. Our core values of trust, partnership, agility and thoughtful risk taking are displayed in everything we do. Our culture of collaboration and inclusion makes our company the place where the best people choose to be. Come join us!

The Payment Networks Switching Solutions team is seeking a team member with experience driving large cross-functional strategic initiatives supporting Market and Internal facing programs. In this role the Switching Solutions TPM will be engaging with product and development teams from packaging to production deployment and will act as the single accountable person driving delivery of each project.

ROLE

We are looking for experienced Technical Program Management professionals to join our team and help us build towards the future. Our Technical Program Managers (TPM) conceptualize, rationalize, and drive multiple simultaneous projects to deliver engineering work across the portfolio. You will contribute to the strategies and design choices necessary to build comprehensive believable and achievable execution plans to deliver high-profile new features and capabilities for our customers.

Job Description

• Plan, execute, and deliver projects from inception to completion related to a known technology, product, or program.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and have the technical credibility to drive constructive discussions with the engineering teams.
• Drive clarity into technical implementation by driving design discussion with the team.
• Provide business context to engineers as required and competently represent your team's systems to others both inside and outside the organization.
• Build and maintain integrated project schedules that account for internal/external dependencies, differing delivery approaches, numerous constraints, and adequately factor in contingency for unplanned delays.
• Negotiate features and associated priority and help the team and their customers reach consensus.
• Collaborate with engineering managers to secure resources, scope efforts, set priorities and establish delivery milestones.
• Figure out the sequencing of the work so that engineering execution can be optimized.
• Identify blocking issues and manage their resolution.
• Ensure Control teams from Legal, InfoSec, etc. participate in the application’s development and deployment efforts as required.
• Manage project communications and run effective meetings.
• Clearly articulate scope, timelines, dependencies, owners, actions, risks, and mitigations.
  
  
  

Requirements

Position requires a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Engineering, Computer Science, or related and five (5) years of experience in job offered or as a Project Manager, IT Manager, Software Development Engineer, or related.

Qualifying experience must include at least one (1) year with each of the following:

• Confluence
• Jira
• Scrum
  
  
  

Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience.

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.