Senior Technical Program Manager

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?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview:

The Transfer Solutions team was created to establish Mastercard as the frontrunner in the fast-evolving real-time payments space, and to position Mastercard to be able to incubate the development of new payment flows. The team is responsible for designing, building, and operating the technology that powers Mastercard’s next generation payment applications – Domestic, Cross Border and Bill Payments.

Mastercard seeks to define a world beyond cash. To accelerate this mission, we are committed to building & scaling products & applications that transform payments of any type. Real time payment technology is central to this strategy.

The Role:

What’s it all about and what we expect you to do day to day?

· Exhibits the behaviours of Lean Management and help multiple teams embrace agile process of Scrum, Kanban and Extreme Programming.

· Support multiple teams with implementation of agile rules - rules of scrum, build in quality and limiting work in progress.

· Trained as a team facilitator and is continuously engaged in challenging the old norms of development to improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity.

· Enable cadence and Synchronization across multiple teams so the individual team’s backlogs and solutions are understood, resolved, and integrated.

· Close collaboration with the product management to keep the backlog healthy, groomed and purged.

· Organizes and accelerates a group of related product engineering backlog items or activities across multiple teams, aligning dependent organizations. Identify and remove blockers and always find the path forward in challenging situations

· Creates mechanisms to effectively report out and control execution. Recognizes complexity and creates predictable delivery paths for large and/or complex efforts. Measurably improves, streamlines, and/or eliminates excess processes. Utilizes cross organizational mechanisms to describe and drive continuous improvements.

· Drives execution of an outcome from inception through successful delivery through the full stack of the services / domains, or, an outcome that spans multiple teams and integrations across the enterprise.

· Looked to as first point of contact for your team or area. and Maintains the backlogs as transparent source of truth for status providing the right information and associated data visually about the state backlog of

the project to the right all the audience at the right all times. Maintains backlogs as always on information radiators on batch size and flow of work.

· Understands the business strategy and design approaches within product, program or domain with depth to be credible and effective with teams they work with. Can competently and independently represent team’s services.

· Keeps abreast of evolving technology landscape. Can ask the right questions to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of designs (scalability, latency, security, performance, data integrity, etc.)

· Works with ambiguity and with limited guidance. The business outcome, program, and/or product strategy is defined, but nothing else is. Able to get the inertia out and the epic in motion or able to get the entropy out and start the agile ceremonies for a calm and predictable delivery pattern

· Transform raw thoughts into clear and concise communications/instructions to the teams through backlog grooming. Can communicate with confidence 3+ levels up using transparent backlog.

· May work directly with external to the organization or external to Mastercard technology providers that support our implementation plans and backlogs roadmaps identifying opportunities to be faster, better and cheaper.

· Understands the needs of the engineers and technical operations teams who have to build, maintain, and operate the services and technical assets

· Regularly review metrics and proactively seek out new and improved data/mechanisms for visibility ensuring your program stays aligned with organization objectives

· Plays active role in mentoring and recruiting others

All About You and What you need to bring:

· Expert with agile deliver using Lean Product management, Lean Management and DevOps practices.

· Run and manage agile process – grooming, planning, prioritization and retrospectives.

· Anticipate bottlenecks, risk and dependencies. Adequately using agile practice to unblock, ROAM Risks and eliminate dependencies to create flow of work.

· Determine if success metrics are in place and if not, you work to define them

· Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them

· Continuously assess product development life cycle and software development lifecycle to improve concurrent project delivery.

· Streamline and/or eliminate excess process in any area of the architecture, production operations environment, or business area where the same efforts (or issues) are repeated year-over-year

· Experienced in agile and modern SDLC practices (Scrum/Kanban/Continuous Delivery/DevOps/Quality engineering) and the delivery situations they are used for

· Has skills to conduct product demos and co-ordinate with product owners to drive product acceptance signoffs

· Have software engineering or product management experience and background

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.