Lead Technical Project Manager (Innovation Consulting)

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 Project Manager (Innovation Consulting) Overview Advisors & Consulting Services (A&CS) is Mastercard’s global consulting and execution arm within Services, focused on helping clients solve complex business challenges and realize measurable value from Mastercard’s data, products, and platforms. A&CS partners closely with customers across industries, geographies, and stages of maturity to deliver strategy, insights, and hands on execution that drives growth, efficiency, and customer success. Deploy is a core execution capability within A&CS, focused on the technical and operational delivery of Mastercard solutions for clients. Deploy teams work closely with Product, Digital Labs, and regional Account and Business Development teams to translate strategy and solution design into successful client implementations, ensuring that Mastercard products are deployed efficiently, securely, and at scale. Operating within A&CS’s global delivery model, Deploy supports client engagements by providing hands on technical expertise, implementation leadership, and program execution capabilities. This enables A&CS to move beyond advisory work and act as an execution partner, helping clients accelerate time to value and achieve sustainable outcomes from their Mastercard investments. Deploy Europe (EUR) is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager, based in Ireland, to support the delivery of a complex, technology-led client engagement. This role is responsible for driving end-to-end project execution—coordinating cross-functional teams, managing timelines, dependencies, and risks, and acting as the primary day-to-day delivery lead for the client. Working closely with technical architects, engineers, product teams, and client stakeholders, the Technical Project Manager will ensure delivery is structured, transparent, and outcome-driven, with a strong focus on quality, governance, and predictable execution in a client-facing environment. Role: • Manage the end-to-end delivery of multiple technical projects simultaneously, ensuring timelines, scope, quality, and budget are actively controlled across all engagements • Act as the primary day-to-day delivery lead for client stakeholders, maintaining clear communication, expectations, and confidence throughout the project lifecycle • Plan and manage integrated delivery schedules, dependencies, and milestones across parallel workstreams and teams • Coordinate cross-functional teams including Solutions Architects, engineers, product specialists, vendors, and client delivery teams • Drive technical delivery governance, including status reporting, RAID management, action tracking, and escalation where required • Lead regular project ceremonies and forums (weekly delivery calls, checkpoints, SteerCo inputs, and readiness reviews) • Ensure delivery readiness by supporting scope definition, resourcing plans, onboarding of team members, and transition from pre-engagement into delivery • Proactively identify and mitigate delivery risks and constraints, balancing client priorities with technical and operational realities • Track and manage commercial and contractual considerations, including effort burn, change control, and alignment to agreed statements of work • Maintain a strong focus on quality, predictability, and outcomes, ensuring deliverables meet agreed acceptance criteria • Partner closely with internal stakeholders to ensure delivery aligns with Deploy standards, bes ... (truncated, view full listing at source)