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.

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.

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