Principal Technical Program Manager

Mastercard

Fresher Pune Full Time Work from office
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Posted : today
Actively hiring

Job description

Mastercard is a global leader, empowering economies and individuals across 200+ countries. We are dedicated to building a sustainable economy where prosperity is accessible to all. Our work involves supporting diverse digital payment options, ensuring secure, simple, smart, and accessible transactions.

We leverage cutting-edge technology, strategic partnerships, and extensive networks to deliver unique products and services that help individuals, businesses, and governments achieve their full potential. Our Networks Exchange platform is undergoing a significant modernization to become a next-generation, highly scalable, resilient, and configurable offering for our growing customer base. This transformation will drive faster innovation, enhance reliability, and improve operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end execution of complex outcomes, from initial concept through successful delivery of services, domains, or cross-enterprise initiatives.

Collaborate effectively with multiple scrum and delivery teams to refine working methodologies, identify potential risks, and implement mitigation strategies.

Facilitate productive retrospectives, develop actionable plans for team-level improvements, and coordinate with other Technical Program Managers to align and implement program-wide changes.

Proactively identify system efficiencies and process enhancements across the program, recommending strategic improvements to program leadership.

Clearly define scope, timelines, dependencies, ownership, action items, risks, and mitigation plans. Regularly report progress to teams and senior leadership, potentially representing entire program segments.

Qualifications

Demonstrate a strong history of operating autonomously across multiple teams, showcasing critical thinking and thought leadership.

Possess proven experience in building and delivering large-scale enterprise technical or engineering programs and products from inception, effectively articulating their impact through metrics.

Showcase a track record of breaking down complex problems, organizing work, planning sprints, and successfully delivering technical programs using agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban.

Assist customers and engineering teams in making informed trade-off decisions by analyzing business goals, technical platform strategy, customer experience, and maintainability. Identify and manage the resolution of blocking issues.

Exhibit a consistent ability to make data-driven decisions and apply continuous improvement methodologies across teams.

Proven experience in building strong relationships, partnering with, and influencing dependent teams while earning respect across the organization.

Expertise in Payments is essential. Experience with IaaS, PaaS, CI/CD, SQL databases, microservices APIs, and distributed systems operations within a DevOps model is highly advantageous.

Possess robust technical program delivery experience.

Be a self-motivated, intellectually curious, and ownership-driven leader who proactively identifies opportunities, challenges assumptions, and drives end-to-end outcomes. Embrace a builder's mindset, taking initiative to solve complex business and technical problems.

Essential Skills

technical program managementagile deliverypaymentsscrumkanbanCI/CDmicroservices APIsdistributed systems operationsinformation securitystakeholder managementcross-functional team leadershipprocess improvementrisk managementdata-driven decision makingcontinuous improvementDevOpsenterprise architecturemetrics reportingchange management

Highlights

  • Actively hiring

More Details

RolePrincipal Technical Program Manager
IndustryFinancial Services
DepartmentProgram Management
Employment TypeFull Time, Work from office

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