Lead 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 Lead Technical Program Manager 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. The Account Management Services team develops new capabilities for Mastercard and its customers. We protect cardholders and card issuers and help them manage their daily spending patterns. To enable us to uphold the high standard of these applications we are looking for out-of-the-box thinkers to play a critical role in the upkeep and continual health of these products. The Technical Program Manager is an important member of our software development teams here at Mastercard. The T-PM works closely with our engineering teams and other stakeholders across the company to organize and track ongoing projects and activities, providing timely update with data and milestones, facilitating technical meetings with all groups. Proactively manages all dependencies, ensuring we meet the delivery. Role You will own the end-to-end delivery of engineering projects Responsible for planning, execution, and delivery, from inception to completion, for an existing technology product or program Proactively manages the end-to-end delivery of engineering work though the engineering team and all dependent organizations Reports on progress, ensuring dependencies are covered Operates between teams and architectures overseeing the gaps between teams, processes, and systems, while removing all blocking issues leading to a successful delivery Plan and manage a group of related technology projects or activities in a coordinated way from inception through successful delivery Deep understanding of the design approaches and technologies utilized in your area Focus on the customer experience, the build and delivery processes and the problems to be solved Work across multiple scrum teams (may be cross-cutting across products, scrum teams, and/or technologies or work may be vertically focused on a single product or feature set) Align dependent organizations and remove/mitigate all blocking issues Deep understanding of the business and technical requirements for the solutions being built 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 Recognize complex designs and propose simplified solutions by working with software design engineers, principals and TPMs Help customers and the engineering teams make trade-off decisions by considering all of the data including business goals, technical platform strategy, customer experience and maintainability. You identify blocking issues and manage their resolution. Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels Write documentation as required Partner with industry vendors that provide technology or user experience design components that support our architecture and work with vendor ... (truncated, view full listing at source)