Sr. Technical Program Manager

About the Company:

Netspend Corporation is a global, vertically-integrated financial services and technology company dedicated to the delivery of innovative financial empowerment solutions to consumers worldwide. Netspend's financial products and services span prepaid, debit, cross-border payments, and loyalty solutions for consumers and enterprise partners.

Netspend provides prepaid and debit account solutions that connect customers with secure, convenient access to global payment networks so they can manage their money and make everyday purchases. With a nationwide U.S. retail network, customers can purchase and reload Netspend products at 130,000 reload points and over 100,000 distributing locations.

Since our founding in 1999 by industry pioneers, Netspend products have processed billions of dollars in transaction volume and served millions of customers worldwide. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas with employees worldwide.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are hiring a Senior Technical Program Manager with 10+ years of experience to lead complex, cross-team engineering programs built on Java. You will be an enabler for the engineering teams who own delivery — bringing structure, visibility and alignment from scoping through launch — while engaging deeply with engineers on architecture, dependencies and technical trade-offs.

This role sits at the intersection of engineering and execution. You will be the person who turns ambiguous goals into a clear plan, keeps multiple teams moving in step, and gives leadership an honest, early view of risk.

Experience: 10+ years

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Program enablement

- Enable large, multi-quarter programs spanning several engineering teams, partnering with the engineering managers who own delivery from charter through launch and post-launch review.

- Build integrated program plans with milestones, critical path, dependencies and resourcing; keep them current as reality changes.

- Facilitate the program operating rhythm: planning, standups or syncs, status reporting, release readiness and retrospectives.

- Coach teams on Agile (Scrum/Kanban) practices and help adapt the delivery model to fit team size, risk and deadlines.

Technical partnership

- Engage with engineers on system design, Java/JVM service architecture, APIs and integration points well enough to challenge estimates and spot hidden dependencies.

- Partner with architects and tech leads on technical debt, scalability, performance and migration plans, and make the trade-offs visible to stakeholders.

- Review design documents and help translate technical constraints into scope, timeline and risk decisions.

- Work with DevOps and QA on CI/CD, release management, environments and quality gates.

Risk, governance and communication

- Identify risks and blockers early, maintain a RAID log, and help owners drive mitigation, escalating when needed.