# Lead Technical Program Manager

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: O'Fallon, Missouri
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $122,000 - $207,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard is seeking a Lead Technical Program Manager (TPM) as part of the Authentication Solutions platform.

The Digital Solutions Engineering team is responsible for Mastercard's electronic payment system, ensuring payments are convenient and secure.

The key objectives of the solutions are to prove identity, reduce abandonments, reduce fraud, increase approval rates, and secure the payments ecosystem.

As a Technical Program Manager at Mastercard, you will collaborate to define the how and when of strategic delivery goals.

Key Responsibilities:

- Accelerate project progress by making crisp, timely decisions and clearing blockers.

- Navigate difficult situations to find viable paths forward and decompose problems into manageable units.

- Organize work for optimal delivery, negotiating priorities, facilitating progress, and raising issues to management as needed.

- Maintain TPM artifacts, track SDLC milestones, and manage dependency target dates actively.

- Secure shared understanding and buy-in for solutions, clearly describing their impact on Mastercard and its customers.

- Use communication as a preventive control, ensuring meetings are effective, consensus is built, and decisions are well-documented.

- Optimize approaches, demonstrate improvements using data, and drive continuous improvements.

- Proficiently manage scrum delivery, understand business context, customer use cases, and the functionality, architecture, and dependencies of involved systems.

- Represent team services to stakeholders and external partners, bringing developers or SMEs to meetings as necessary.

- Actively manage dependencies, influence vendors and partners, and ensure alignment with program goals.

- Deliver independently while occasionally seeking direction from peers and managers.

The successful candidate will have:

- Proven experience in technical program management, with a strong ability to make timely decisions and manage complex projects.

- Proficiency in scrum delivery and a track record of optimizing processes and demonstrating improvements with data.

- Deep understanding of business context, customer use cases, system functionality, and industry technologies.

- Excellent communication skills with the ability to lead effective meetings, build consensus, and clearly articulate decisions.

- Experience in managing dependencies, influencing external partners, and representing team services to stakeholders.

In terms of compensation, Mastercard offers a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role.

For full-time employees, benefits generally include: insurance, flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves, 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.

## Skills

### Required
- technical program management
- scrum delivery
- communication
- problem decomposition
- data analysis

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