Our Purpose

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 (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) 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.

Title and Summary

Senior 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.

Decision Management Platform

Be part of the Operations & Technology Fraud Products team developing new capabilities for Mastercard's Decision Management Platform, which serves as the core for multiple business solutions to combat fraud and validate cardholder identity. Our patented Java-based platform processes billions of transactions per month in tens of milliseconds using a multi-tiered, message-oriented approach for high performance and availability.

• Are you interested in helping to build solutions that help recognize and prevent payment fraud?

• Have you ever worked on a highly scalable Decision Management platform?

• Do you consider yourself to be capable of bridging the gap between technology and business?

We are seeking a Talented and motivated Senior Product Manager - Technical to join our engineering team. In this role, you will work with our cross-functional engineering teams, playing a critical role in creating new functionality within our platform.

Role

• Collaborate with technical team and business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions

• Perform analysis of system requirements, elaborate into features, with clear acceptance criteria and story point estimates in a SAFe/Agile methodology format.

• Facilitate scoping sessions and lead review sessions of technical requirements/stories.

• Coordinates with interdependent teams on platform product requirements.

• Produce, own, and manage product documentation ensuring features and associated documentation are clear and easily consumable by other engineering teams

• Contributes to the product portfolio and roadmap, prioritizing the backlog.

• Recommends trade-off decisions on platform product features/depth of features/backlog items

• Uses runtime metrics of their services in market as a feedback loop into the backlog and balances the priorities against new feature requests

• Continuously monitors feature development at the feature level adjusting throughout implementation as needed

All about you

• Bachelor’s degree/master’s in computer science, Engineering, or a related field

• In depth understanding of technology behind products. This includes knowledge of software engineering principles, prior software engineering hands on experience, and architecture understanding.

• Ability to read and write SQL queries to perform data analysis.

• Ability to read and understand java (or similar) based code to drive better development outcomes.

• Experience with REST based web services; JSON, XML.

• Proficient in technical requirements gathering and documentation and grooming user stories, setting entrance/exit criteria and prioritizing a platform product backlog.

• High-energy, detail-oriented, and proactive with the ability to function under pressure in a collaborative (Agile) environment.

• High degree of initiative and self-motivation with a willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities.

• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, communicates with Architects, Product Managers and other stakeholders with ease.

• Experience employing agile/SAFe methodologies and ceremonies and product road mapping skills and OKR’s

• Experience of Observability tools and message and data driven analysis/development an advantage.

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.