Senior Vice President, Real Time Payments Technology Solutions

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 Vice President, Real Time Payments Technology 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 Payment Networks Technology division comprises of several market-facing programs that drive Transaction Switching, Clearing, Settlement and Integration into Value Added Services. These programs together power Mastercard’s core business across the globe. The Senior Vice President, Real Time Payments Solutions will be responsible for driving Technical Solutions for Account-to-Account Real Time Payments. This role will work in a highly collaborative fashion with Product Owners and Engineering delivery teams during the intake, ideation, prioritization, solution design, sizing, and delivery packaging phase of the initiatives. This role will proactively engage, collaborate, develop Solutions, and prioritize initiatives with peers from the Product Organizations and the Regions to ensure the successful execution of Product and regional roadmaps in support of the corporate strategy. This role will manage an organization consisting of client solutioning experts, platform architects, program management function. This role will have a direct influence on Engineering delivery and may require providing oversight into engineering delivery. Role: - Strategic technical leader who brings considerable experience as an engineer or product manager designing highly scalable payment solutions using a broad range of technologies. - Collaborates with business/product owners across the organization to develop solutions, prioritize and deliver on new services to address market, customer, and product needs. - Provide technical platform product management thought leadership for the organization, setting the vision and direction for the design of assigned products, platforms, and applications. - Responsible for driving value-based product demand prioritization by streamlining processes during product development lifecycle (ideation, market opportunity assessment, solution design, estimation, prioritization for engineering delivery, delivery planning, program/delivery management etc.) - Makes trade-off decision on multiple products in the portfolio, prioritizing the most critical long-term project requests driving revenue, creating, or maintaining competitive advantages. - Manage escalations from executives across the organization assess the alternative to resolve (path to green), builds a plan for resolution and gains consensus with stakeholders. - Brings continuous improvement mindset by implementing streamlined processes (using AI where possible) to reduce churn and improve collaborative culture across Product, Engineering, and other stakeholders. - Develops a culture of ingenuity, creativity, and collaboration, acts as a role model for others in challenging the status quo to encourage ... (truncated, view full listing at source)