'Lead Product Manager - Technical

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

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 Data & Analytics team is looking for a Lead Product Manager Technical in cloud data platform space (Databricks and Snowflake) to drive our mission to unlock potential of data assets by consistently innovating, eliminating friction in how users access data from its repositories, generate insights and deliver those to end consumer. The Mastercard Data platforms are used to build AI products, deliver insights and reporting capabilities to a wide group of users across the organization in order to support business decisioning and growth drivers of various products/solutions. This position will manage stakeholders of new / existing products, define and maintain product roadmaps, and work with engineering teams to drive those roadmaps. The role will be central interface between data platform teams and product delivery.
Ideal candidates will answer yes to all the following questions:
• Have you worked in an agile development team?
• Do you understand the standard SDLC process?
• Do you have exposure to Data Warehouse, Cloud Data platforms (Databricks / Snowflake), data analytics, data mart and data security
• Do you have sound analytical skills?
• Do you have sound understanding of Product principles?
• Are you passionate about using technology to deliver quality solutions providing superior customer experience?
• Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment and have the ability to learn new skills and applications quickly?
Role
• Work with business teams to understand their business / product requirement
• Contribute with functional and technical knowledge towards design and development of high quality, secure, scalable software solutions based on technical requirements specifications and design artefacts within expected time and budget
• Define and describe the details behind the business requirements, specifications, and user experience as defined in the Product Roadmap so that there are always prioritized and “SDE ready” features and user stories.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (e.g. Project Management – Technical, Software Development) to design, develop and deliver new Products that drive incremental revenues for Mastercard.
• Understands business context and market dynamics including Regulatory, Legal, Competitive and Technology landscapes.
• Drive product operations of the program that includes usage pattern, unit cost trends, departmental adoption and more.
• Drive institutionalized knowledge through the use of consistent product documentation
• Optimizing the approach by being experts in their domain and providing insight into tradeoffs and what will ultimately be built.
• Provide technology leadership to other leaders in big data and cloud data platform space.
• Stay abreast of Analytics technology trends and industry best practices to hone and maintain your talent
• Participate in architectural discussions, iteration planning, and feature sizing meetings
• Provide support during System and User Acceptance Testing
• Adhere to Agile processes and participate actively in agile ceremonies
All About You
• Minimum 12 years of experience in IT in the area of Requirement management, Business analysis, Data warehousing, OnPrem / Cloud data platforms
• Understanding of IT systems and/or products and supporting cloud data platforms, BI reporting, ETL solutions and other analytics solutions.
• Understanding of Agile processes.
• Strong SQL programming skills
• Hands on in one or more analytics tools like Tableau, Looker, Power BI and other similar.
• Good understanding of Big data technologies and concepts - on premise and cloud.
• In depth practical experience on cloud technology stack - Databricks, Snowflake, AWS and/or Azure.
• Practical understanding of Product management and Product development principles.
• Strong product mindset.
• Good understanding of Advanced analytics like predictive and prescriptive analytics
• Exposure to Python, Scala, Spark, Cloud services and other related tools / technologies will be a plus
• Strong RDBMS understanding.
• Understanding of Exadata/Oracle/Netezza/SQL server or any other relational databases
• Have product build out mindset and prior experience in supporting technology teams building products
• Exposure and understanding of complete SDLC
• Good communication skill is mandatory

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.