Principal Technical Program Management

Principal Technical Program Management

The AI&DPE Program includes Decision Management Platform (DMP), BEARs, and AI Decisioning Foundations. This role will lead programs and initiatives supporting an internal product suite that enables intelligent decisions for market-facing products. The platform delivers industry-leading capabilities by applying complex business logic across the payment journey, leveraging supercomputing, AI technologies, streaming data platforms, high-speed in-memory caching, APIs, and UIs to enable real-time, scalable decisioning.
The Principal, Technical Program Manager will primarily own and drive DMP’s large-scale infrastructure initiatives working closely with our internal and external program’s spanning multiple Mastercard business units (Security Solutions, Product & Engineering, Data & Services, Mastercard Technology), ensuring dependencies are aligned, risks are actively managed, and delivery outcomes are achieved with high quality and predictability. This role will operate across engineering, architecture, and operations teams, ensuring platforms are scalable, resilient, and release-ready.
They will play a key role in implementing strategies to optimize delivery efficiency, execution rigor, and operational readiness. While maintaining a primary focus on end-to-end infrastructure delivery (procurement, build, integration, and release), this role will flex across PMO governance, release coordination, and customer success initiatives, adapting to evolving program and business needs.

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact View email address on decentrajobs.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;


• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;


• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and


• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

O'Fallon, Missouri: $152,000 - $258,000 USD