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Mastercard · 2 days ago

Senior Technical Program Manager

O'Fallon, MO

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$96K/yr - $163K/yr

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will interact with various teams to deliver complex projects, define roadmap deliverables, and manage program execution while ensuring a focus on customer experience.

FinanceFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyPayments

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Plan, execute, and deliver projects from inception to completion related to a known technology, product, or program. Describe and maintain the integrated plan that accounts for internal/external dependencies, differing delivery approaches, numerous constraints, and contingencies for unplanned delays

Secure resources, scope efforts, outline priorities and establish delivery milestones. Nurture good working relationships with engineers, managers, and peers

Proactively manage the end-to-end delivery of engineering work through the organization and all dependent organizations, reporting out progress, ensuring dependencies are covered, overseeing the gaps between teams, processes, and systems, while removing all blocking issues leading to a successful delivery. Accelerate progress by driving crisp, timely decisions

Be the first point of contact for projects. Communicate with confidence 3+ levels up. Be the source of truth for status. Transform raw thoughts into clear and concise communications. Provide right information and associated data about the state of the project to the right audience at the right time. Run effective meetings

Have experience in and understand industry technologies and understand the program, product, or O&T domain. Have sufficient depth/credibility to be effective with teams you work with. Can competently represent team’s services to stakeholders and other teams

Delivers independently but occasionally seek direction from peers/managers. Guide, mentor and coach the team

Optimize previously defined approaches for a team or limited area. Demonstrate improvements using data. Utilize department mechanisms (i.e. retrospectives, staff meetings, status meetings) to describe and drive continuous improvements

Qualification

Technical program deliveryAgile delivery modelsCloud-native softwareData-driven decision-makingSoftware development lifecycleContinuous improvement methodologiesCoachingEntrepreneurial mindsetInfluencing skillsCommunication skillsRelationship buildingProblem-solving skillsMentoringDetail-oriented

Required

Intermediate technical program delivery or project management experience including time developing and testing software

Experience leading development and testing efforts or time spent in software development and testing

Demonstrated experience breaking down problems, organizing work, planning sprints, and delivering technical programs in agile delivery models using the Software Development Life Cycle

Demonstrated ability to operate with independence and autonomy

Proven track record of data-driven decision-making and applying continuous improvement methodologies across teams

Demonstrated experience building relationships, partnering with and influencing dependent teams while commanding the respect of the individuals you work with across the organization

Ability to debate the delivery strategy with business teams, architects, engineers, and designers

Ability to communicate to executives, peers, and staff with impact, eloquence, and authenticity

Experience working on programs to define and build cloud-native software products as a platform at scale

Desire to dive deep to understand the platforms' capabilities and underlying technologies

Bachelor degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology or related discipline preferred, or equivalent work experience

Preferred

Completed Certifications (Agile, PMI, ITIL, DevOps, cloud computing, Java, etc.) preferred, or equivalent work experience

Expertise in Payments, IaaS, PaaS, serverless technology, CI/CD, NoSQL databases, microservices APIs, and distributed systems operations in a DevOps model

Knowledge of work management tools a plus (Jira, Rally)

Benefits

Insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)

Flexible spending account and health savings account

Paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)

80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time

25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire

10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays

401k with a best-in-class company match

Deferred compensation for eligible roles

Fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities

Eligibility for tuition reimbursement

Company

Mastercard

Glassdoor4.2

Mastercard is a financial network that processes payments between banks and cardholders.

Founded in 1966

Purchase, New York, USA

10001+ employees

http://www.mastercard.com

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