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Lead 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 Lead Technical Program Manager Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships, and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. The Digital Solutions Engineering team is responsible for Mastercard’s electronic payment system as well as ensures payments are convenient and secure. The products are primarily focused on authentication, tokenization, fraud prevention, and risk mitigation across all payment channels as well as all stakeholders, issuers, acquirers, merchants, processors, and consumers. The key objectives of the solutions are to prove identity, reduce abandonments, reduce fraud, increase approval rates, and secure the payments ecosystem. We are hiring a Lead Technical Program Manager (TPM) as part of the Authentication Solutions platform. The core Authentication Solutions (3DS and Passkey based) teams use a mix of technologies as we work to revolutionize our technology offerings. Job Overview: Technical Program Managers at Mastercard collaborate to define the how and when of our strategic delivery goals. This role plays a pivotal role in driving complex, cross-functional projects and maintain alignment of our goals to organizational objectives. The responsibility of this teammate is to ensure technical solutions are delivered on time and meet the desired outcomes. We are seeking a Technical Program Manager to drive progress, manage complex projects, and ensure optimal delivery. This role requires a strategic thinker who excels in decision-making, problem decomposition, and effective communication, while maintaining a strong grasp of business context and technical details. Key Responsibilities: · Accelerate project progress by making crisp, timely decisions and clearing blockers. · Navigate difficult situations to find viable paths forward and decompose problems into manageable units from ideation to execution. · Organize work for optimal delivery, negotiating priorities, facilitating progress, and raising issues to management as needed. · Maintain TPM artifacts, track SDLC milestones, and manage dependency target dates actively. · Secure shared understanding and buy-in for solutions, clearly describing their impact on Mastercard and its customers. · Use communication as a preventive control, ensuring meetings are effective, consensus is built, and decisions are well-documented. · Optimize approaches, demonstrate improvements using data, and drive continuous improvements through retrospectives, staff meetings, and status updates. · Proficiently manage scrum delivery, understand business context, customer use cases, and the functionality, architecture, and dependencies of involved systems. · Represent team services t