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

Senior Technical Program Manager

All About Us
MasterCard is a technology company in the global payments business. We connect consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses worldwide and enable them to use secure and convenient electronic forms of payment.

Join the industry’s most passionate, motivated & engaged global team - Our employees are encouraged to drive innovation every day in support of a more connected world – A World Beyond Cash.

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Overview

• Been the victim of credit card fraud and thought, “Vengeance!” Yeah, we get it.
• Want to feel your spine tingle by thwarting credit card fraudsters across the globe?
• Interested in creating “That’s the stuff!” software for combating scammers?

The Transaction Security team develops new products for Mastercard's fraud prevention platform. We protect cardholders / card issuers and aim to eradicate credit card fraud. Our industry-leading bastion of defense processes billions of transactions per month with execution times literally 10X faster than you can blink. The Software Engineer will play a critical role in creating new product functionality within this platform including world-class backend and consumer-facing features.

Role

• Act as Technical Program Manager for managing new product development
• Act as Scrum Master / SAFe agilest and drive all ceremonies
• Guide, mentor & coach the team(s) on Agile Scrum, SaFe and XP principles
• Remove impediments with the right sense of urgency, or guide teams in doing so
• Build a trusting and safe environment for the team where problems are discussed without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem solving
• Coordinate with various groups in MasterCard across locations to ensure success of the projects
• Being keenly aware of what is being delivered by the team and why, and the big program picture
• Maintain, Radiate and Present project related information, & metrics for leadership review
• Coordinate initiatives for automation, defect metrics and overall quality initiatives
• Recommend strategic direction, continuous improvements and policy changes.
• Advance operational and business concerns or issues relative to future business programs, projects, or enhancements that may affect consistent delivery of quality services.
• Lead Project/Program management activities around cost, schedule, quality etc.

All About You

• A very strong understanding and experience on SaFe Agile with certifications
• Experience playing the Agile Scrum Master role for at least 3 years for new project software development teams formally and visibly applying Scrum principles and practices
• Good skills - facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvements, empowerment, and transparency
• Knowledge and practice of numerous patterns and techniques e.g. Burndown techniques, retrospective formats, defect handling etc..
• Result Oriented Professional
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills involving Business Owners, Development Teams etc. Ability to guide teams.
• Coordination and organization skills and the ability to work with multiple stakeholders and vendors across locations to ensure success of the project.
• Strong understanding, inclination and experience towards Lean methodology in general

• Strong understanding of project/program management techniques around cost, schedule, quality etc

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.