Technical Program Manager II

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

Technical Program Manager II

The Service Delivery team was created to establish Mastercard as the leader in the fast-evolving real-time payments space. The team is responsible for ensuring interoperability between Mastercard’s diverse applications and business architecture. Providing the path for standardized, reliable, secure, and efficient Infrastructure Services.
Our Vision in Service Delivery to enable rapid deployment or architecturally compliant applications and infrastructure.

The Role:

What’s it all about and what we expect you to do day to day?

· Exhibits the behaviors Program 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.

· 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 2+ 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 basic 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 Product management, Scrum Management and SAFe practices.

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