Director/Sr. Director, Data Platform Technical Program Management

  • Full-time
  • Job Family Group: Technology and Operations

Company Description

You love data, learning, and technology. Where others see common problems, you see intriguing opportunities.

At Visa, we collaboratively enable Visa to be the best way to pay and be paid, for everyone everywhere. This is our global vision and the common purpose that unites the entire Visa team. As a global payments technology company, technology is at the heart of what we do: Our VisaNet network processes over 13,000 global transactions per second, enabling digital currency. We are also global advocates for financial inclusion, helping those who lack access to financial services to join the global economy.


Job Description

Our Data Platform is growing fast and the pace of change is accelerating. We deeply care that in the midst of internal growth our platform and services remain secure, stable and dependable for our customers and partners.

As the PMO Head for our Bangalore team, you?ll drive our platform forward as you build out our PMO in Bangalore. You should be comfortable leading teams, coaching and developing others. You anticipate risks and negotiate trade-offs, and are both technical and process focused.

In this role, you will work with all areas of the organization to deliver against our strategy while simultaneously managing the day-to-day aspects of your portfolio. The Director/Sr. Director can expect to hire and manage and hire a team of Program Manager and Scrum Masters as the team grows.

We are the Data Platform Technology team within Visa. We collaborate with every other team at Visa to deliver on our broad mandate of Data Platforms that are secure, robust, and effective. To achieve this, we continuously reflect, learn, and commit to develop our platform, our processes, and our people.

Do you wonder why, what-if, and why not? Do you seek simple solutions to complex problems? Are you naturally curious and a voracious learner? Are you a magnet to responsibility?

We want you to come join our team!

RESPONSIBILITIES

You love transformation, developing people, process, products and organizations.

  • Collaboratively lead technology teams to deliver successful programs.
  • Drive a continuous focus on developing automation to replace repeatable, operational tasks.
  • Proactively, assertively and creatively remove obstacles that slow down or prevent programs from delivering against program objectives.
  • Work with partner teams to insure ownership and accountability of technical project planning and delivery for infrastructure build out programs.
  • Coach across teams and senior leaders throughout the software development process with Agile, Scrum, and Lean practices.
  • Implement required phase gates and artifacts. In parallel, partner to improve our internal tools and processes with an agile mindset.

Qualifications

  • You are an engaging leader who supports others' growth and development, while inspiring them to go beyond in their performance.
  • You are a curious leader, who challenges the status quo, boldly and respectfully taking risks and advocating for changes that benefit the entire company.
  • You are a relationship builder committed to both internal and external partnerships.
  • You have 12+ years of experience, as a Project/Program Manager, working with technical teams developing Enterprise class software applications and a Bachelor Degree in an engineering discipline, or significant hands-on software development experience with results
  • Thorough understanding of infrastructure processes and lifecycle; ability to adjust and apply this knowledge in a dynamic environment using agile methodologies.
  • Experience with some Data Platform technologies (Hadoop, Impala, Kafka, Hive, etc)
  • Understanding of technologies and products required to bring monitoring solutions to market at scale.
  • Outstanding organizational, communication, interpersonal, relationship building skills conducive to collaboration; able to work well in a global matrix management environment.

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