Lead Technical Program Manager, Cross Border Payments

Our Purpose

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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Lead Technical Program Manager, Cross Border Payments

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.

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 Applications 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.

The Mastercard® Cross Border platform and services enable secure, near real-time payment transfers to and from billions of card, bank and digital accounts globally. Program Participants (banks, businesses, digital players and more) can modernize the way they send money cross-border, making funds available to recipients almost instantly. Mastercard Cross Border is proven to increase user spend and engagement, strengthening core business performance.

Do you like to be part of a team that is creating and executing strategic initiatives centered around digital payments?

Do you look forward to developing and engaging with high performant diverse teams around the globe?

Would you like to be part of a highly visible, strategically important global engineering organization?

The Role:

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 independently represent team's services. • Keeps abreast of evolving technology landscape. Can ask the right questions to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of designs (scalability, latency, security, performance, data integrity, etc.) • Works with ambiguity and with limited guidance. The business outcome, program, and/or product strategy is defined, but nothing else is. Able to get the inertia out and the epic in motion or able to get the entropy out and start the agile ceremonies for a calm and predictable delivery pattern • Transform raw thoughts into clear and concise communications/instructions to the teams through backlog grooming. Can communicate with confidence 3+ levels up using transparent backlog. • May work directly with external to the organization or external to Mastercard technology providers that support our implementation plans and backlogs roadmaps identifying opportunities to be faster, better and cheaper. • Understands the needs of the engineers and technical operations teams who have to build, maintain, and operate the services and technical assets • Regularly review metrics and proactively seek out new and improved data/mechanisms for visibility ensuring your program stays aligned with organization objectives • Plays active role in mentoring and recruiting others

All About You and What you need to bring: • Expert with agile deliver using Lean Product management, Lean Management and DevOps practices. • Run and manage agile process - grooming, planning, prioritization and retrospectives. • Anticipate bottlenecks, risk and dependencies. Adequately using agile practice to unblock, ROAM Risks and eliminate dependencies to create flow of work. • Determine if success metrics are in place and if not, you work to define them • Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them • Continuously assess product development life cycle and software development lifecycle to improve concurrent project delivery. • Streamline and/or eliminate excess process in any area of the architecture, production operations environment, or business area where the same efforts (or issues) are repeated year-over-year • Experienced in agile and modern SDLC practices (Scrum/Kanban/Continuous Delivery/DevOps/Quality engineering) and the delivery situations they are used for • Has skills to conduct product demos and co-ordinate with product owners to drive product acceptance signoffs • Have software engineering or product management experience and background

In the US, Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 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, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.