Lead Technical Program Manager

Mastercard
CA - Ontario - Toronto
May 11, 2025

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

Lead Technical Program ManagerLead Technical Program Manager

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry.
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.

Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience.
We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution.

The Technical Program Management team is looking for a Lead, Technical Program Manager to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving.
The ideal candidate is passionate about working with the customer experience journey, global technology engineering teams, is highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.
Role
• Plan, execute, and deliver projects from inception to completion related to a known technology, product, or program.
Describes and maintains the integrated plan that accounts for internal/external dependencies, differing delivery approaches, numerous constraints, and contingency for unplanned delays.
• Secures resources, scopes efforts, outlines priorities and establishes delivery milestones.
• Proactively manage the end-to-end delivery of engineering work through the organization and all dependent organizations, reporting out progress, ensuring dependencies are covered, overseeing the gaps between teams, processes, and systems, while removing all blocking issues leading to a successful delivery.
Accelerates progress by driving crisp, timely decisions.
• Looked to as first point of contact for projects.
Can communicate with confidence to senior leaders.
Is the source of truth for status.
Transforms raw thoughts into clear and concise communications.
Provides right information and associated data about the state of the project to the right audience at the right time.
Runs effective meetings.
• Has experience in and understands industry technologies.
Understands their program, product, or technology domain.
Sufficient depth/credibility to be effective with teams they work with.
Can competently represent team's services to stakeholders and other teams.
May need to bring developers or SMEs to meetings to talk details.
• Program strategy defined.
Delivers independently but will occasionally seek direction from peers/managers.
• Nurtures good working relationships with engineers, managers, and peers.
• Optimizes previously defined approaches for a team or limited area.
Can demonstrate improvements using data.
Utilizes department mechanisms (i.e.
retrospectives, staff meetings, status meetings) to describe and drive continuous improvements.

All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should:

• Understand the business context and the associated customer use cases.
• Understand your team's technologies and are able to evaluate system designs and architecture as you participate in solution discussions.
• Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them.
• Verbal and written communication is clear and concise.
• Improve team processes that accelerate delivery, drive innovation, lower costs, and improve quality.
• Proficient with scrum delivery.
• Some exposure or understanding of API development and microservices architecture
• Be skilled at explaining technical problems succinctly and clearly
• Be a strong, confident, and exacting writer and speaker, able to communicate your vision and roadmap effectively to a wide variety of stakeholders
• Always look for potential solutions to solve problems
Corporate Security Responsibility
• SecuritySolutionsMastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal 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.
We hire the most qualified candidate for the role.
In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact *** 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.

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