Senior Technical Program Manager
Senior Technical Program Manager
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Job Description
Technical Program Managers (TPMs) play a critical role at Marqeta in leading largescale initiatives across our product and technology organizations. TPMs structure and oversee programs from inception to launch and ongoing delivery ensuring better workflows and more effective communication. They work closely with executives and key company stakeholders to drive critical programs and activities across the company.
Marqetas Technology and AI division provides common online services infrastructure engineering pipelines observability cybersecurity compliance data platforms and analytics artificial intelligence and more thousands of live service instances on two continents processing hundreds of millions of transactions moving billions of dollars on behalf of hundreds of millions of cardholders. As a Senior Technical Program Manager in this division you are responsible for driving and reporting on a portfolio of transformational programs delivering outcomes that modernize and uplift all of Marqetas online services. You will drive and own process data and technology transformations across agile engineering functions and collaborate/partner with other organizations within Marqeta. You will partner with leadership teams to drive strategy in addition to helping to plan organize and work with teams to execute the vision for our key initiatives.
The Impact Youll Have
- Provide excellent technical program management driving a portfolio of technical programs and projects to deliver and evolve Marqetas online services
- Particular impacts in one or more of the following areas:
- Data & AI/ML: overseeing the engineering work to evolve our constellation of data platform services keeping them secure compliant reliable scalable and costefficient.
- Disaster Recovery: driving dozens of engineering teams to make our services resilient and rapidly recoverable following the highest risk scenarios
- Incident Management: ensuring we learn the most from every outage or incident and use that learning to improve and prevent future outages including tracking and reporting on followup remediation work
- Infrastructure: accelerating the modernization of Marqetas services shared compute infrastructure engineering pipelines observability & monitoring data center evolution and more
- Develop and leverage strong partnerships for transformation while remaining agile to respond to changing business needs
- Proactively work with key stakeholders to identify the highest priority Initiatives
- Define and execute communication plans to report each program across multiple stakeholders in Marqeta including executiveready reporting
- Manage risks schedules and blockers facilitating problemsolving for the team
- Validate assumptions define success metrics and use data to drive strategic improvements
- Suggest improvements to TPM standards to enhance PMO service quality
- Use scrum and agile practices to boost initiative delivery across engineering teams
Who You Are
- 5 years experience managing technical programs or projects involving the engineering delivery and operations of online services
- Proficient in agile software development practices
- Familiarity with modern cloudbased services technologies
- Understanding of modern SSDLC (Secure Software Development Life Cycle) practices including OWASP top 10 defense
- Knowledge of fundamental modern practices for ongoing delivery of highavailability online services
- 5 years of technical program management experience
- Strong communicator able to work independently across time zones
- Skilled at navigating ambiguity and seeing the big picture to drive success
- Confident in working with diverse teams including executive sponsors
- Proven track record of delivering complex crossfunctional projects
- Pragmatic problemsolver resourceful and actionoriented
- Change agent with a focus on progress over perfection
- 3 years of experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Data & AI/ML: experience in largescale data services including technologies such as Airflow Snowflake Kafka and Change Data capture platforms;
- Disaster Recovery: experience in fundamental practices including DR planning DR playbooks DR testing and resilience investments
- Incident Management: experience managing the processes for capturing and learning from outages and incidents tracking and reporting followup actions;
- Infrastructure: experience and expertise in SSDLC modern service engineering & CI/CD practices and technologies and ongoing service operation practices;
Nice To Haves
- Experience in electronic payments and accounting systems
- 2 years of software engineering experience or equivalent training
- A Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a STEM degree
- Jira expertise
- Project management (PMP) certification
- Experience in highgrowth companies
Your Manager
- Paul Klemond Senior Director Technical Program Management
Typical Process
- Application Submission
- Recruiter video call
- Hiring manager video call
- Virtual Onsite consisting of 45 45 min calls
- Offer!
Compensation and Benefits (CAN)
Marqeta is a Flex First company which allows you to choose your best working environment whether that be from home or at a company office. To support Flex First we calibrate pay to a competitive value according to working location.
When determining salaries we consider several factors including but not limited to skills prior experience and work location. The newhire base salary range for this position reflected in CAD is:..
We also believe in recognizing the contributions of our people. Thats why we award annual bonuses to eligible employees rewarding both individual performance and the success of the entire company.
Along with monetary compensation Marqeta offers
- Multiple health insurance options
- Flexible time off take what you need
- Retirement savings program with company contribution
- Equity in a publiclytraded company
- Monthly stipend to support our remote work model
- Annual development dollars to support our people growth and development
- Familyforming benefits and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
