Principle Product Manager - Technical
Overview:
Mastercard is a world leading payments and technology company with the aspiration to help reshape the digital economy so everyone can realize their ambitions. Technology is our product, and we pride ourselves in using the latest technologies to create secure, customer centric experiences. The Role 1/ Set the product vision Understand the business strategy and develop technical approaches to match it, maximizing scalability and business impact Leverage best practices and capabilities for onboarding within Mastercard and bring in new capabilities where required Continuously raise the bar on the capabilities and impact of the Mastercard Transaction Stream platform 2/ Bring the vision to life Develop and maintain logical architectures of the current and future states, and design interim phases for the platform to support iterative delivery Develop technical architectures along with engineering leaders, detailing how the Mastercard Transaction Stream platform will interact with other Mastercard systems Lead the creation and maintenance of the product backlog, elaborating epics into features and stories, prioritizing work, and identifying and mitigating risks 3/ Oversee delivery of new features Lead development of testing, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes for releases Develop product health measurements and feedback mechanisms to measure success and inform development prioritization Guide the engineering teams to work through blockers and key technical tradeoffs to maintain development velocity and deliver impact 4/ Oversee Environment Stability Play a role of Release Manager, MUST ensure the stable stage environment is established by working with other application teams to plan the code drops with a shift in mindset and implementation of deployment validation to ensure environment stability. Ensure proper Alerts & Monitoring in place to let the appropriate application team know about the instability & environment. Establish a forum to have a scrum of scrum across all applications within Payment Network and outside of Payment Network that interact with Mastercard Transaction Stream. All about you Strong track record of successful delivery of product features from design, development, deployment, and customer integration with experience launching high-quality products in the payments industry. Understands and can explain the business context and the associated Customer and end-user pain points as well as the use cases, bringing this to life for scrum teams. Experience with Lean product management principles and practices that can deliver high quality technology products/services in a high growth environment where priorities shift rapidly. Experience in agile delivery methodologies (scrum, Kanban, etc.), CI/CD and modern DevOps based PDLC and SDLC. Proficient at grooming user stories, features, and epics, setting entrance/exit criteria and prioritizing a product backlog. Constantly learning, seeking out technical knowledge and educating the entire organization about trends, technologies, and approaches Takes the time to fully learn the functionality, architecture, dependencies, and runtime properties of the systems supporting the products. Provide directions junior PMTs Highly structured and organized with the ability to plan work to maximize the teams productivity and effectiveness.