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:
We are looking for an Lead Product Manager - Technical to join a to drive our strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about technology, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset. the PVS Identity Solutions team.
Role
• Provide technical leadership for new major initiatives
• Deliver innovative, cost-effective solutions which align to enterprise standards
• Be an integrated part of an Agile engineering team, working interactively with software engineer leads, architects, testing engineers, from the beginning of the development cycle
• Help ensure functionality delivered in each release is fully tested end to end
• Manage multiple priorities and tasks in a dynamic work environment.
• Identifies issues that will keep the platform features from delivering on time and/or with the desired requirements and communicates to leadership
• Works with internal teams and customer service to identify, classify, and prioritize feature-level customer issues
• Coordinates internal forums to collect and identify feature-level development opportunities
• Owns and manages product documentation; enables self-service support and/or works to reduce overhead
• Identifies feature risks from business and customer feedback and in-depth analysis of operational performance; shares with senior leadership
•Digests business customer requirements (user stories, use cases) and platform requirements for a platform feature set
• Determines release goals for the platform and prioritizes assigned features according to business and platform value, adjusting throughout implementation as needed
• Reviews product demo with the development team against acceptance criteria for the feature set
All About You
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent work experience with hands on technical and quality engineering skills
• Excellent technical acumen, strong organizational and problem-solving skills with great attention to detail, critical thinking, solid communication, and proven leadership skills
• Solid leadership and mentoring skills with the ability to drive change
• Knowledge Java, SQLs, APIs (REST/SOAP), code reviews, scanning tools and configuration, and branching techniques
• Experience with application monitoring tools such as Dynatrace and Splunk
• Experience with Chaos, software security, and crypto testing practices
Experience with DevOps practices (continuous integration and delivery, and tools such as Jenkins)
Nice to have knowledge or prior experience with any of the following
• Orchestration with Apache Nifi, Apache Airflow
• Understanding about Microservices architecture.
• Take the time to fully learn the functionality, architecture, dependencies, and runtime properties of the systems supporting your platform products. This includes the business requirements and associated use cases, Mastercard customer's experience, Mastercard's back office systems, the technical stack (application/service architecture), interfaces and associated data flows, dependent applications/services, runtime operations (i.e. trouble management/associated support strategies), and maintenance.
• Understands and can explain the business context and the associated customer use cases
• Proficient at grooming user stories, setting entrance/exit criteria and prioritizing a platform product backlog
• Understands the technologies supporting the platform product and are able to hold your own in debates with other PM-Ts, TPMs, SDEs, and SPMs
• Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them
• Verbal and written communication is clear and concise
• Improve team processes that accelerate delivery, drive innovation, lower costs, and improve quality
Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

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.