Senior Technical Program Manager Job Listing at Mastercard in O'Fallon, MO (Job ID R-257131)

Description

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 Job Title
Senior Technical Program Manager, Payment Networks
Who is Mastercard?
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.

Overview
The Mastercard Payment Networks organization is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to support the Next Edge Program which is focused on building a comprehensive payments and data network technology that connects customers to Mastercard's Core Payment Networks.

In this role, you will work across multiple engineering and product teams to organize and accelerate delivery, ensuring coordinated execution across all workstreams. You will track and manage engineering projects, release integration, timing, scope, and delivery milestones. You'll also provide ongoing, data-driven updates on the state of delivery and proactively manage dependencies to ensure all outputs are production ready at launch.

Responsibilities
• Assist in planning, execution, and delivery of projects from inception to completion, ensuring alignment with strategic and business objectives.
• Partner closely with Engineering Management to define, own, and execute the product and technical roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and delivery timelines.
• Track and report on key project milestones and serve as the first point of contact for project status, providing timely, accurate, and audience-appropriate updates to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Own new project intake and backlog management; assist in new project development; and drive backlog prioritization and alignment with program leadership.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including daily standups, iteration planning, retrospectives, and backlog grooming for one or more engineering squads.
• Support elaboration and refinement of user stories and technical requirements, ensuring clarity and alignment across cross functional teams.
• Coordinate and lead Program Increment (PI) Planning activities, ensuring alignment of objectives, capacity planning, and dependency management across teams.
• Identify and mitigate risks, manage cross team dependencies, and drive resolution of issues to maintain program momentum.
• Demonstrate a high degree of autonomy and ownership, proactively identifying what needs to be done and driving initiatives forward without needing constant direction.

Experiences
• Proven experience leading software engineering project delivery in a professional development team environment.
• Strong communication skills—both verbal and written—with the ability to build relationships, influence stakeholders, and collaborate across teams.
• Demonstrated success in stakeholder management and cross-functional coordination, especially in fast-paced or matrixed organizations.
• Hands-on experience with Agile project management tools such as JIRA, Rally, or equivalent.
• Comfortable working autonomously, with a proactive mindset and a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies including daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and Program Increment (PI) Planning.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Economics, Physical Sciences, or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience working in a scaled Agile environment (e.g., SAFe) and leading large cross-team planning efforts such as PI Planning.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software development workflows.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams across multiple time zones.
• Ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Track record of delivering high-impact programs in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
Ability to understand and communicate technical components and concepts in software engineering. Mastercard 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 reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com 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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $94,000 - $157,000 USD

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