Lead Technical Product Manager

Lead Product Manager- Technical - Java & Microservices

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 Product Manager- Technical - Java & MicroservicesWho is Mastercard?
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.

Technology at Mastercard
We work on state-of-the-art multi-rail Payment Systems - Authorization, Clearing, and Settlement. These are based on niche Event Driven Platforms, Cloud native Java micro services, and based on Domain Driven Design.

The Mastercard Payment Networks team is looking for a Lead Technical Product Manager to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. Our solutions are built on the Digital Network Architecture, around the Cloud Native principles and in a Scaled Agile Framework. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.

The Role
• Work as a Lead Technical Product Owner in a Scaled Agile Environment
• Create/Author Epics, Features and stories for change initiatives in Payments and Card domain with clear Acceptance criteria and Feature-Definition-Of-Readiness for Development
• Carry out thorough functional and business analysis of high-level business needs and elaborate progressively. Ensure Risk analysis and What-if scenarios.
• Conceptualize detailed solutions for Real Time Online and Batch Systems
• Collaborate and Coordinate with various groups in MasterCard across locations to ensure success of the projects
• Create & present business/data-related metrics/reports for leadership
• Clarify and answer various functional questions that teams might have with respect to the Features/Stories, such that the teams are able to carry out the development as per expectations
• Leverage AI to the best possible extent for productivity and quality while ensuring adherence to the Mastercard standards and policies

All About You
• A very strong understanding and experience on the Payments and Cards business – Authorization/Clearing
• Ability to analyze, conceptualize and create cutting edge business solutions related to Payments and Cards domain
• Extensive experience in the development of Real Time Online and Batch application features
• Extensive experience in authoring features and stories on new project development in an Agile environment
• Result Oriented Professional
• Strong communication, coordination and stakeholder management skills involving Business Owners, Development Teams etc. across locations
• Ability to guide and mentor teams related to business domain knowledge
• Strong understanding, inclination and experience of working in an Agile (SaFe) environment.

All staff at Mastercard are expected to demonstrate 'Mastercard Way' cultural values every day - own it, simplify it, sense of urgency, thoughtful risk-taking, unlock potential, and be inclusive – with a relentless focus on our customers.

What we create today will define tomorrow. Revolutionary technologies that reshape the digital economy to be more connected and inclusive than ever before. Safer, faster, more sustainable.
And we need the best people to do it. Technologists who are energized by the challenges of a truly global network. With the talent and vision to create the critical systems and products that power global commerce and connect people everywhere to the vital goods and services they need every day.

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.

Experience Level

Senior Level