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Senior Technical Program Manager
Mastercard International Incorporated · 🇺🇸 O'Fallon, Missouri
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 76 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 286 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Mastercard International Incorporated paid sponsored hires in similar roles2 certified filings for “Principal Technical Program Manager” (Computer and Information Systems Managers) in MO: $181k–$181k, median $181k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Mastercard International Incorporated
The US Department of Labor certified 76 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 286 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Senior Technical Program Manager Overview As a Senior Technical Program Manager at Mastercard, you’ll bring your expertise with conceptualizing, coordinating and driving technology projects, and coaching Agile practices in high-performing, self-organizing development teams. We’re building a global B2B, microservices-based platform to help businesses of all sizes streamline how they manage payments when buying or selling products & services. As a global business, the projects you lead for Mastercard will deliver software operating at massive scale requiring a focus on performance, security, and reliability. This role will support our Network Solutions team within Payment Networks, assisting the development team with building out software solutions for Mastercard. Role: • Dive as deep as you want into the tech stack, the integration patterns, the organizational capabilities, and the company wide assets that can be leveraged to provide technical solutions to customer problems. • Contribute to the strategies, design choices, and even the cloud infrastructure necessary to build comprehensive and achievable execution plans to deliver high-profile new features and capabilities for our customers. • Drive the execution of an initiative that may span multiple teams and integrations, reporting meaningful status along the way. • Coach your teams on self-organization and working effectively cross-functionally. • Remove impediments and escalate obstacles for your teams. • Coordinate with the product owner on priorities to maximize business value. • Facilitate team events including grooming, planning, demo and retrospective meetings. All About You: • You operate with independence and autonomy. • You have experience defining and building cloud-native services at scale with a deep understanding of the service’s capabilities and underlying technologies. • You have experience breaking down problems, organizing work, planning sprints, and delivering technical programs using Agile delivery models (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) • You have a track record of data driven decision-making and applying continuous improvement methodologies across teams. • You can debate the delivery strategy with business teams, architects, engineers, and designers. • You can communicate to executives, peers, and staff with impact, eloquence, and authenticity. • You have experience building relationships, partnering with and influencing teams while commanding the respect of the individuals you work with across the organization. • You have in-depth experience in SAFe or Scrum@Scale practices and have worked in large-scale team environments. • You thrive in an Agile environment focused on continuous improvement. • You are passionate about the art of delivering the highest quality software to customers and doing the right thing. • Broad understanding of Software Engineering Concepts/Methodologies • Huge plus if you have expertise in Payments, IaaS, PaaS, CI/CD, Microservice APIs, DevOps and Agentic AI Education: •Bachelor's degree in information systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent work experience Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender