5 Technical Leadership jobs in Ireland

**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**
Vice President, Technical Program Management
Overview
- Works across Solution Design, Engineering and Delivery teams to organize and accelerate delivery, ensuring all teams are delivering in a coordinated manner
- Tracks and manages manifest definitions, release integration, timing, scope and delivery
- Provides ongoing updates (with data) on the state of delivery
- Proactively manages all dependencies, ensuring all outputs are production ready at launch
Responsibilities
- Lead a global organization defining the structures and operating mechanisms that optimize the skills, execution methodology and your management team into your organization
- Drive a data driven and continuous learning culture across your organization
- Ensure team culture consistently demonstrates alignment with leadership principles; visibly ties department decisions to leadership principles and tenets
- Define and build your own scorecard to continuously monitor and analyze key performance indicators and use this data to drive incremental improvements across engineering
- Rigorously inspect the delivery plans and execution metrics of your TPMs using your own tech depth and business acumen to assess risks and continuously raising the delivery bar
- Provide technical and program delivery thought leadership for the organization
- Build and cultivate strong internal customer relationships to establish engagement models for your team and ensure delivery is in alignment with expectations
- Manage escalations
- Actively encourage the development of your managers and your technical staff while continuously raising the bar on performance, technical depth, program management results, and people management as you hire new technical program managers
- Demonstrate and differentiate performance and leadership bar across multiple levels and apply to hiring decisions
- Plan and advocate for department resources
Experiences
- Extensive experience delivering technical programs
- Proven track record of data driven decision making and applying continuous improvement methodologies across teams
- Comprehensive experience in agile delivery methodologies (scrum, Kanban, etc.) and CI/CD
- Can communicate to executives, peers, and staff with impact, eloquence, and authenticity
- Demonstrate experience building organizational relationships, partnering with and influencing executive leadership while commanding the respect of the individual engineers across the organization
- Demonstrate experience as a people manager with the ability to attract, recruit, and develop technical talent
**Corporate Security Responsibility**
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.

Wondering what's within Beckman Coulter Diagnostics? Take a closer look.
At first glance, you'll see that for more than 80 years we've been dedicated to advancing and optimizing the laboratory to move science and healthcare forward. Join a team where you can be heard, be supported, and always be yourself. We're building a culture that celebrates backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives of all our associates. Look again and you'll see we are invested in you, providing the opportunity to build a meaningful career, be creative, and try new things with the support you need to be successful.
Beckman Coulter Diagnostics is proud to work alongside a community of six fellow Diagnostics Companies at Danaher. Together, we're working at the pace of change to improve patient lives with diagnostic tools that address the world's biggest health challenges .
The Senior Manager , Technical Project Management for Beckman Coulter Diagnostics is responsible for driving and implementing pivotal initiatives, running regional and/or global technical and non-technical projects, and contribut ing to building the future Global Ops Project and Portfolio Management Office infrastructure and team. Proven leadership experience in complex Project Management is a must .
This position is part of the Global Operations PMO & Strategy Team and is based in Co. Clare , Ireland ( with approximately 25 % travel ) . At Global Ops PMO, our vision is to bring best in class project and portfolio management methodology and skills to support the achievement of our business goals .
You will be a part of the Global Operations PMO and Strategy team and report to the Direc tor , Global Operations PMO and Strategy, responsible for the management of our Global project portfolio(s) & our Global Project Managers .
If you thrive in a multifunctional, fast paced & supporting role and want to work in a global PMO -read on.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
+ Take ownership of the full project life cycle - successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for one to two major or several minor/medium projects simultaneously.
+ Establish and drive the achievement of Project and Portfolio KPIs through the adoption of Danaher Business Systems tools (Visual Project Management, Daily Management etc.) and Global Ops PMO Standard Work/Methodology.
+ Demonstrate intuition for business to support how solutions will address project goals
+ Ensure that projects/programs are proceeding according to scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards
+ Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating collaboration, innovation, and excellence.
+ Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations to various audiences, including project team, sponsors, steering team, and executive-level key partners.
+ Participate in the development, implementation, and continuous improvement on standard methodologies and tools for project execution, portfolio management, and PM talent development.
+ Responsible for the support and development of more junior Project Managers globally, ensuring projects realize their benefits and Project managers realize their potential.
The essential requirements of the job include:
+ Bachelor's degree in a relevant field with 14+ years' experience in Project Management OR Master's degree with 12+ years' experience in Project Management OR Doctoral degree with 9+ years' experience in Project Management.
+ Significant experience in medical device/diagnostics regulated environment (manufacturing, R&D, supply chain, engineering or logistics and distribution)
+ Strong Project Management experience leading large, sophisticated operations and/or R&D projects /programs and complex teams.
+ Project management trained/qualified.
+ Experience in Project Portfolio Management
+ Proven experience leading all aspects of medium/large design changes, and all aspects of technology transfer programs/projects in the Medical Device or Diagnostics regulatory environment
+ Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and build relationships at all organizational levels.
+ Proven ability to mentor and develop Project managers and project teams with varying levels of PM competence. Can take tough decisions around people and can quickly build effective teams in a global matrixed organization.
+ Global business knowledge and influence - demonstrated understanding of different cultures and approaches and demonstrated ability to lead, follow, work and influence at all levels and in all functions of the organization.
It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:
+ Lean /Six Sigma experience, certified Kaizen leaders and demonstrated capability in problem solving.
+ Proficiency in Power BI/ smartsheet , MIRO, excel and PM software.
Join our winning team today. Together, we'll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow's science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.
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**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**
Manager, Product Management-Technical
Manager, Product Manager - Technical, Product & Engineering (PAE)
Overview
- Within Mastercard's Products & Engineering, the Cross-Border Services Product management technical team defines initiatives, elaborates epics, features and manages the development and delivery of the capabilities supporting the Product roadmap and ensures competitive differentiation and alignment with key Mastercard priorities.
- As a product owner and PM-T, this position works with cross-functional global stakeholders (Product Strategy, O&T/Technology teams, Service and Network Management) - both internal and external - to define the functional specifications of the cross-border products capabilities
- Responsible for developing inspiring platform/product visions, derived from business needs, market opportunities, and technology trends
- Using the Working Backwards method, decomposes business requirements and customer experiences into features and functions that drive the platform/product roadmap
- Works with Technical Program Managers, Developers, UX designers, and internal customers to define the details behind the business requirements
- Acts as the voice of the business customer and accountable for the platform services
Role
- PM-T role for Cross-Border Services manages various cross border services platforms, and their integration with FX/Treasury, Compliance, Settlement, Accounting, Billing and various network systems.
- Ensure the integrity and consistency of the delivery of the Cross-Border Services vision across all assets: capabilities, support chain, rationalisation and metallisation of assets, readiness for growth and re-usability by other programs.
- Flesh out the concepts and achieve clarity of thought about what will ultimately be built. Participate in the definition of the flows and interfaces for all channels (API, UI, Files, SWIFT) between all assets
- Joint solution design with the Technology teams in charge of developing each of the Cross-Border Services assets
- Decompose the functional and non-functional requirements into user stories, prioritise the backlog, define the acceptance criteria, accept the stories and features.
- Produce all the artifacts needed by our internal customers in the larger Product community.
- Encourage re-use of their building blocks, continuously innovate on behalf of internal and external customers.
- Fully understand the functionality, architecture, dependencies, and runtime properties of the systems supporting the platform products, including: business requirements, use cases, UX, back office systems, technical stack, interfaces and associated data flows, dependent applications/services, runtime operations (i.e. trouble management/associated support strategies), and maintenance.
- Participate to Cross-Border Services operational reviews, and address issues and improvements with Technology and Payment Operations
All About You
- Experience building complex business and/or transactional models in a product line management, e-commerce, and/or strategic planning role
- Can deliver high quality technology products/services in a high growth environment where priorities shift rapidly
- Ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases
- Proven ability to lead in a matrix environment
- Demonstrated ability to multi-task, establish priorities and work independently under pressure and with limited supervision
- Experience and proficiency with cloud technologies (IaaS, PaaS, serverless technology, NoSQL databases), microservice design, near real-time, scalable fault tolerant platform design, API design, and distributed systems operations in a DevOps model
- Experience with XP, TDD and BDD in the software development processes
- Proven track record of data driven decision making and applying continuous improvement methodologies across teams
- Comprehensive experience in agile delivery methodologies (scrum, Kanban, etc.) and CI/CD
- Can communicate to executives, peers, and staff with impact, eloquence, and authenticity
- Deep understanding of the platform, the integration patterns, the organisational capabilities, and the company wide assets that can be leveraged to provide technical solutions to customer problems
- 8-12 years product development experience
- Experience in FX, SWIFT or ACH systems, especially acquired within a bank is a major plus
- Superior oral and written communication, problem solving, product documentation, and product development skills
- Customer focus and analytical skills
- Proven project management, organization, and thought leadership skills with ability to build, lead, and maintain strong, productive teams and working relationships with internal stakeholders and external customers
- Experience mentoring and guiding junior team members
- Strong customer relationship-building and management skills
**Corporate Security Responsibility**
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.

Description
Amazon Central Technical Operations Services (CTOS) maintains high availability for the Amazon Retail Website and is the team that provides the first line of incident response to protect it. We make customer impacting events shorter, less frequent, severe, and impactful by providing large scale incident and response management. The Amazon Retail Website has hundreds of millions of customers globally who can be impacted by these types of incidents; the work we do to mitigate them helps real people at a tremendous scale. The CTOS team is front-and-center in driving down event duration by utilizing their deep technical expertise, operational experience, knowledge of best practices, and effective usage of incident management tools.
This position will be part of a globally distributed team of 45+ professionals across Seattle, Austin, Dublin, and Sydney providing around the clock coverage. As a System Development Manager for the Dublin site, you will manage the regional team consisting of 14 engineers. You will lead the day-to-day delivery and execution of the Incident Management function and lead System Development tooling to improve service delivery and protect availability of the Retail website and internal corporate environments. It is a complex and constantly changing space, operating across dozens of countries, consisting of thousands of cloud-based services, built and maintained by tens of thousands of engineers, and serving hundreds of millions of customers. When it experiences major issues, your team will respond within minutes to ensure the best course of action is taken and impacts are minimized. This experience will expose you to everything Amazon has to offer, providing opportunity to interact with and influence leaders from across the Stores and Corporate businesses. We are an agile team with significant impact. If you can think big and want to be a part of a fast-moving team breaking new ground at Amazon.com, and you meet the qualifications below, we would like to speak with you!
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor degree or higher in Computer Science or related field.
- 8+ years of software development experience.
- Experience of having worked in at least one modern object-oriented programming language such as Java or C++.
- Proven track record of shipping large complex scalable systems/applications in an agile environment.
- Experience with professional software engineering best practices such as Agile project management, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong analytic and problem solving skills.
- Strong leadership, project planning, communication and execution skills
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels
- Confidence to drive and manage large conference calls
- Understanding of routing protocols to help facilitate troubleshooting and remediation of networking issues
- Experience dealing effectively with customers during problem resolution and operating efficiently under pressure
- Strong analytic and problem solving skills.
- Experience with large scale distributed systems.
- Experience of building solutions using AWS technologies.
- Experience with distributed services oriented architectures
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