Manager - Product Management-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

Manager - Product Management-Technical

Overview:
Mastercard is a technology company in the Global Payments Industry. We operate the world’s fastest payments processing network, connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories. Mastercard products and solutions make everyday commerce activities – such as shopping, travelling, running a business and managing finances – easier, more secure and more efficient for everyone.
Enterprise Data Accessibility (EDA) program of Data & Analytics department under Services Org, looking for Manager in Software Engineering to lead, mentor and coach software engineering teams to build, enhance and deliver internal or market-facing Product, and Platforms. Someone who combines deep technical experience with great people management skills and can help elevate our teams and our approach to engineering.
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Lead Product Manager - Technical to drive innovation and execution within the Enterprise Data Accessibility – Data Serving & Conveyance Engineering team. This role will be responsible for shaping the product strategy, defining the roadmap, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver scalable data solutions. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, experience with data platforms, and a passion for enabling enterprise-wide data accessibility.
Responsibilities:
• Define and execute the product strategy and roadmap for data accessibility, serving, and conveyance solutions.
• Collaborate with engineering, data science, and business teams to develop scalable and high-performance data products.
• Work closely with internal clients to understand data access needs and translate them into technical requirements.
• Support the POs to define user stories that capture the functional requirements identified to meet the agreed solution and take responsibility for accepting user stories on build completion on behalf of the PMT team.
• Drive the development of APIs, microservices architecture, Hybrid multi-cloud data pipelines, BI solutions, SQL and Big Data technologies to enhance data availability and usability.
• Ensure compliance with data governance, security, and privacy regulations.
• Leverage AI/ML and advanced analytics to improve data accessibility and decision-making processes.
• Monitor product performance, gather feedback, and iterate to improve product effectiveness.
• Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies to drive continuous innovation within the data domain.
All about you
The ideal candidate for this position should:
- Demonstrate the ability to complete technical systems analysis and solutioning.
- Solid business analysis skills and knowledge are essential, i.e. the ability to take high level requirements and drill these down into detailed functional requirements under your own initiative
- Demonstrate the ability to collaboratively design solutions that both enhance the product offering, and work within the design principles.
- Comfortable working at a detailed level with interface specifications & doing related data mappings to and from APIs, data pipeline and other data serving and conveyance solutions
- Solid documentation skills, with the ability to define, review and evaluate requirements and identify technical/functional solutions.
- Ability to work collaboratively with development and business stakeholders within an Agile team.
- Able to communicate effectively with both business & technical audiences.
- Payments experience is a plus but not essential.
- Empowerment and accountability, demonstrating independent thinking and a collaboration mindset
- Committed to deliver on time and to quality.
- Willingness to learn and get stuck in.

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.