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Mastercard
Lead Technical Program Manager (Business Experimentation & Optimization Program Management Office)
Skills
DatabricksData AnalysisJiraConfluenceWorkday
2 months ago
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Important information
Contract type:
Permanent
Location:
Ireland
Work mode:
Onsite
Published on:
19 August 2026
What they need
- The Business Experimentation & Optimization (BE&O) Program Management Office is seeking a Program Manager to help drive high-impact engineering initiatives across modernization, cloud transformation, data delivery, and analytics platform evolution
- This role will partner closely with engineering, product, data, infrastructure, security, business operations, and external partner teams to coordinate execution across complex, cross-functional programs
- The ideal candidate is a strong communicator, structured problem solver, and execution-focused program leader who can bring clarity, accountability, and momentum to initiatives with many moving parts and critical dependencies
- Lead program planning, coordination, and execution across high-priority BE&O engineering efforts, including modernization, platform migration, and data delivery initiatives
- Partner with engineering leads, product managers, technical leads, BizOps, shared services, and partner teams to define scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and delivery plans
- Drive operating rhythms, including status updates, stakeholder reviews, dependency tracking, escalation follow-up, and leadership communications
- Manage cross-team communication to ensure teams remain aligned on priorities, timelines, blockers, ownership, and decision points
- Track risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and decisions across complex programs; ensure mitigation plans and owners are documented and actively managed
- Support modernization workstreams focused on scalable analytics capabilities, cloud-first infrastructure, Databricks and data platform integration, customer data ingestion, and future-state architecture delivery
- Coordinate across infrastructure, security, data, cloud, and enterprise platform teams to unblock delivery and ensure readiness for development, testing, deployment, and production launch
- Prepare executive-ready materials, project updates, roadmaps, dependency views, lessons learned, and decision documents for leadership and partner forums
- Identify opportunities to improve program management practices, delivery transparency, intake processes, and cross-team collaboration across the PMO
- Promote disciplined execution while helping teams adapt to changing priorities, technical constraints, and evolving business needs
- What Success Looks Like:
- Critical BE&O modernization and data delivery programs have clear plans, visible ownership, and well-managed dependencies
- Stakeholders understand progress, risks, blockers, and decisions needed without requiring ad hoc follow-up
- Cross-functional teams are aligned on priorities and able to move faster through disciplined coordination and timely escalation
- Leadership has concise, accurate, and actionable visibility into program health, delivery confidence, and areas needing support
- The PMO operating model becomes more consistent, transparent, and effective across engineering initiatives- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to maintain accurate program plans, status reports, risk logs, and action trackers
- Strong understanding of software delivery, cloud modernization, data platforms, infrastructure dependencies, and enterprise technology delivery processes
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical details into clear, actionable updates for business, product, engineering, and leadership audiences
- Demonstrated experience managing complex technology programs or technical projects with multiple workstreams, dependencies, and stakeholder groups
- Experience partnering with engineering, product, data, security, operations, and shared services teams to deliver large-scale initiatives
- Proven ability to manage ambiguity, drive alignment, and move teams toward decisions and outcomes in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to influence without direct authority and build trusted working relationships across distributed teams
- They are comfortable navigating complex technical environments, driving accountability across teams, and creating clear communication structures that help leadership and delivery teams stay aligned
- The ideal candidate is a proactive program leader who thrives at the intersection of engineering execution, stakeholder communication, and operational discipline
- Experience working in a program management office or centralized governance function supporting multiple engineering teams
- Comfort creating executive-facing materials, roadmap views, dependency maps, and stakeholder communications
- Experience with Agile delivery practices, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Teams, and program reporting tools
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, Databricks, data lakehouse concepts, API-driven architectures, and scalable data ingestion patterns
- Experience supporting analytics, experimentation, data delivery, or platform modernization programs- End Date: August 26, 2026
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