Location: Plano, TX
Work arrangement: On-site
Work type: Full-time
Compensation: $209,500 – $239,100/yr
Location: Plano, TX
The Global Payment Network (GPN) Technology organization manages critical payments infrastructure to facilitate high-throughput, secure global transaction processing. The Technical Program Management (TPM) teams are vital to GPN's success. These teams leverage deep technical acumen and systems thinking to drive the architectural alignment, technical strategy, and execution of the organization's objectives and key results. They improve scalability and system resilience within the GPN engineering lifecycle, with a focus on ownership of complex technical dependencies, cross-functional engineering roadmaps, and the robust delivery of global financial infrastructure.
What You'll Do:
As a Director of Technical Program Management (TPM), you will lead programs that deliver on critical business goals and build large scale products and platforms that will help customers have incredible experiences. In addition to the technical program, you will also work to pave the way for an expanding TPM discipline within the team, by leveraging your industry knowledge and experience to teach the organization what a great TPM can achieve.
Contribute to the organization's TPM / Delivery strategy: establish operating mechanisms, maturity models, and tooling that scale across portfolios
Drive development of and alignment on program roadmap anchored in business objectives, definition of done, technical solutions, and sequencing of dependencies
Lead cross-platform technical investment planning and ensure architectural alignment toward long-term platform convergence and reuse
Serve as an executive-level escalation point for program risks, influencing technology leaders to make data-driven tradeoffs between speed, cost and resiliency
Ensure definition of measurable outcomes of platform success (availability, scalability, cost efficiency, developer velocity) and ensure delivery accountability across multiple engineering teams
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in a technical field
At least 7 years of experience managing technical programs
Preferred Qualifications:
7+ years of experience designing and building solutions using distributed computing or service oriented architecture (SOA)
3+ years of experience in building distributed systems and highly available services using cloud computing services / architecture, preferably using AWS
3+ years experience building highly scalable products and platforms
3+ years of experience with Agile delivery
3+ years experience delivering large and complex programs where you contribute to the business or technical vision, collaborate with large cross-functional teams, secure commitments on deliverables and unblock teams to land business impact
Experience in building systems and solutions within a highly regulated environment
MBA or Master's Degree in a related technical field (Computer Science, Software Engineering)
PMP, Lean, Agile, or Six Sigma certification
3+ years of people management experience or influencing organization as an IC
Experience driving platform standardization across multiple product portfolios or lines of business
Track record of building TPM maturity (operating models, career frameworks, metrics) at scale within engineering organizations
Exceptional communication and influence skills, capable of engaging deeply with technical teams while translating implications into compelling business narratives that persuade senior leadership
At this time, a large national consumer bank will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position.
Compensation: $209,500 – $239,100/yr