Master Card - Senior Technical Program Manager - Agile/Scrum (6-7 yrs)

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 :

Role : Senior, Technical Program Manager.

Overview :

The Avanti Command Center is looking for a Senior, Technical Program Manager to help lead end to end planning and executing on delivery of initiatives for Avanti in-scope programs for both on-premises and cloud deployments.

This role is in support of a strategic technology initiative to drive support for localized deployments to meet regulatory and customer on-soil requirements.

Role :

- Successfully deliver major projects and complex assignments with broad scope and long-term business implications.

- Our TPMs conceptualize, rationalize, and drive multiple simultaneous projects to deliver engineering work across the portfolio in our scrum execution model.

- You will contribute to the strategies and design choices to build comprehensive believable and achievable execution plans to deliver new features and capabilities for our customers.

- You may drive the execution of a feature through the full stack or may drive a project which spans multiple teams and integrations, reporting meaningful status along the way.

- You may be working with senior leadership directly to track and report multiple streams of work simultaneously.

All About You :

- Excellent communication skills, Ability to communicate clearly with executive leadership.

- Excellent skills to multi task and track several projects simultaneously.

- Experience running Scrum of Scrums.

- Well versed in multiple Agile workflow tools, specifically with JIRA.

- Manages scrum team(s) that will build, operate and maintain software to meet business needs.

- Obsessed with results, and effectively communicate the objectives and how success will be measured to the team members.

- Develop and drive metrics for team delivery through in-house and vendor (SaaS) based tools.

- Act as Scrum Master / SAFe agilist and drive all ceremonies.

- Implement Scaled Agile Framework and / or other Agile methodologies.

- Enjoys diving deep to understand platform capabilities and underlying technologies.

- Proven track record of data driven decision-making and applying continuous improvement methodologies across teams.

- Can debate the delivery strategy with business teams, architects, engineers, and designers.

- Can communicate to executives, peers, and staff with impact, eloquence, and authenticity.

- Guide, mentor & coach the team(s) on Agile Scrum, SaFe and TDD 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 cross functional teams within MasterCard across locations to ensure project success.

- 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.

- Own collection and reporting of platform metrics.

Qualifications :

- Bachelor's / Master's degree in Computer Sciences or related field preferred.

- Knowledge of multiple software development concepts and Methodologies.

- Detail-oriented, proactive and able to function under pressure in an independent environment along with a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results.

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.