Spearheading AI Foundations & Agents — Senior TPM

Mastercard Inc.; Dublin; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard Inc. in Dublin seeks a Lead Technical Program Manager for AI Foundations & Agents to drive platform enablement and cross‑functional delivery.

You will partner with engineering, product, and architecture leaders to set rhythm, optimize release processes, and align roadmaps with execution plans. You will guide agile ceremonies, track metrics, manage risks, and ensure reliable deployments of agentic AI capabilities across B&MI.

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing software engineering programs in Agile environments.
• Proven ability to drive delivery across multiple stakeholders and dependent teams.
• Experience managing releases, dependencies, risks, and execution planning.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle practices and modern engineering organizations.
• Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and improving team delivery processes.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to identify operational inefficiencies and implement improvements.
• Experience using program management and delivery tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or equivalent platforms.

Responsibilities

• Drive planning, execution, and tracking of engineering initiatives from concept through production deployment.
• Coordinate releases across multiple stakeholders and dependent teams.
• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, execution reviews, retrospective activities, and program increment planning activities as appropriate.
• Identify delivery risks, dependencies, and blockers, and proactively drive resolution.
• Establish mechanisms that improve delivery predictability, transparency, and accountability.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to align roadmap objectives with execution plans.
• Monitor team health, capacity, throughput, and delivery metrics.
• Support operational readiness activities, including release coordination and adoption planning.
• Create clear communication channels for leadership updates, program reporting, and stakeholder engagement.
• Continuously improve team efficiency through process optimization, automation opportunities, and better ways of working.
• Serve as a central point of coordination across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Security, and platform teams.
• Communicate program status, risks, decisions, and milestones to stakeholders.
• Ensure alignment across teams contributing to shared AI platforms and services.

Skills

Program management

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Jira

Azure DevOps

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

Mastercard Inc. in Dublin seeks a Lead Technical Program Manager for AI Foundations & Agents to drive platform enablement and cross‑functional delivery.

You will partner with engineering, product, and architecture leaders to set rhythm, optimize release processes, and align roadmaps with execution plans. You will guide agile ceremonies, track metrics, manage risks, and ensure reliable deployments of agentic AI capabilities across B&MI.