Senior Technical Program Manager

Mastercard • O'fallon, MO

3d • $96,000 - $163,000

About The Position

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 Overview The Payment Enablement team is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager who can lead the planning and organization of an agile team. The ideal candidate is a proficient agile scrum master and project manager that takes ownership of the effectiveness of their squad and delivery of their projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent.
• Relevant experience as a scrum master, project manager, or related field.
• Experience working on enterprise level projects and managing software projects with advanced knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Proficient at building and maintaining strong business relationships.
• Proficient with MS Office tools.
• Proficient with project tracking tools such as JIRA.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Aha! Is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates scrum ceremonies for an agile team; i.e. daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint reviews, backlog grooming, retrospective, and demos.
• Provides agile coaching, helping the team self-organize, enforce team agreements, and employ best practices and processes.
• Recognizes discordant views and takes part in constructive dialog to resolve them
• Tracks and manages manifest definitions, release integration, timing, scope and delivery.
• Provides ongoing updates (with data) on the state of delivery.
• Proactively manages dependencies, ensuring all outputs are production ready at launch.
• Understands the business context and the associated customer use case.
• Understands team's technologies and able to evaluate system designs and architecture as they participate in solution discussions
• Improves team processes that accelerate delivery, drive innovation, lower costs, and improve quality
• Looked to as the first point of contact for team's projects.
• Experienced in and understands industry technologies.
• Understands their program, product, or Technology domain to sufficient depth/credibility to be effective with teams they work with.
• Can competently represent team’s services to stakeholders and other teams.

Benefits

• 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 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; and many more.
• Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level