Company Description
Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.
Job Description
Essential Functions
- Independently responsible for end-to-end planning and execution of one or more medium to high complexity program(s) and/or Agile teams. Day-to-day accountability for tracking scope, schedule, budget, risks, deployments and communications for projects, initiatives, and smaller programs.
- Effectively communicate and address obstacles delaying projects from delivering against objectives.
- Effective communication showcased in reporting, notes, documentation, FAQs, escalations, and more.
- Build effective Partner/Stakeholder relationships thru effective Communication and Facilitation.
- Support implementation of Visa project methodology required artifacts. Supports review, sizing and estimation of work based on One Pagers, Epics or CA requirements for AOP/TPIC.
- Manage preparation for Quarterly Business Review and lead Quarterly Planning sessions.
- Create and be the custodian for living program roadmaps.
- As Scrum coach, coach multiple teams through the software development life cycle using Agile, Scrum, and Lean practices and work cross-functionally throughout the company to ensure projects are developed and deployed with quality and timely delivery into our production systems.
- Demonstrated curiosity and ability to understand architectural and technical aspects of Data Platform and/or DevOps projects.
- Lead role for PM relevant improvement initiatives
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
Qualifications
- 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
- Bachelors or Masters STEM major (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math), or equivalent.
- You love to make things happen with teamwork and process innovation. You are technical. You are collaborative.
- 7 or more years of experience, as Engineering Manager, Scrum Master, Project Manager, Program Manager (or equivalent) or Lead, working with technical teams developing software solutions. Including, 4 or more years of hands-on experience as a Scrum Master, Kanban, or Agile coach.
- Demonstrated curiosity and ability to understand and capture notes on architectural and technical aspects of Data and DevOps projects. Continuous learner.
- Technology knowledge of tech stacks (Big Data would be a plus) and experience driving best practices in software engineering practices.
- Ability to mentor and train junior scrum masters and NCGs.
- Effective communication skills.
- Ability to think strategically. Willingness to step up and get into the details
- Effective facilitation skills at scale.
- Past hands-on experience on JIRA, Rally, JA or similar
- One or more Agile certifications: CSM, PMI ACP, SAFe.
- SAFe certified. PMP or similar detailed knowledge of formal project management processes preferred.
Additional Information
Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.