Jobs in Thunder Bay, Canada

Technical Program Managers (TPMs) play a critical role at Marqeta in leading large-scale 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.

Marqeta’s 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 Data Platform in this division you are responsible for driving and reporting on a portfolio of transformational programs delivering outcomes that modernize and uplift all of Marqeta’s 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.

We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely anywhere within Toronto Vancouver or the United States. Wed love for you to join us!

• Provide excellent technical program management driving a portfolio of technical programs and projects to deliver and evolve Marqeta’s online services
• Oversee the engineering work to evolve our constellation of data platform services keeping them secure compliant reliable scalable and cost-efficient
• 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 executive-ready reporting
• Manage risks schedules and blockers, facilitating problem-solving 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

• 3 years of experience in large-scale data services including technologies such as Airflow Snowflake Kafka and Change Data capture platforms
• 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 cloud-based services technologies
• Understanding of modern SSDLC (Secure Software Development Life Cycle) practices including security vulnerability categories and remediation described in the OWASP top 10 and elsewhere
• Knowledge of fundamental modern practices for ongoing delivery of high-availability 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 cross-functional projects
• Pragmatic problem-solver resourceful and action-oriented
• Change agent with a focus on progress over perfection

• Experience in electronic payments and accounting systems
• 2 years of software engineering experience or equivalent training
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a STEM degree
• AI / ML experience / expertise
• Jira expertise
• Project management (PMP) certification
• Experience in high-growth companies

• Paul Klemond Senior Director Technical Program Management

• Application Submission
• Recruiter video call
• Hiring manager video call
• Virtual Onsite consisting of 4-5 45 min calls
• Offer!

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 new-hire base salary range for this position reflected in CAD is : 104200 - 130200.

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 publicly-traded company
• Monthly stipend to support our remote work model
• Annual development dollars to support our people growth and development
• Family-forming benefits and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave

Required Experience :

Key Skills

Project Management Methodology,Project / Program Management,Program Management,Management Experience,Microsoft Powerpoint,Project Management,Microsoft Project,Budgeting,DoD Experience,Leadership Experience,Supervising Experience,Contracts

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1