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.

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. 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 and proactively reflect, learn, and commit to develop our platform, our processes, and our people.

We are actively looking for a talented and versatile Release Manager (Program Manager) for our Visa Data Platform. You will be part of a global team of Release Managers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Promote a DevOps culture through building relationships with Development & Operations and driving enhancements to the end-to-end release process, including enhancements to Run Books process and Troubleshooting checklists.
• Create mechanisms, systems, and dashboards to review DevOps maturity including adoption and metrics related to Source Control, Continuous Integration, and Artifact Management & Change Management.
• Coordination and communication includes:
  • Release calendar, Upgrade, Infrastructure changes, Platform level bug fixes.
  • New data fields, Consistency across pipelines, Impacted data stores and BI layers.
  • Application list and contacts, Cross reference dependency matrix for impact analysis
  • Facilitate and support compliance to audit requirements
• As a change agent, discovers opportunities for process, technology, product and organizational improvements, pilots on a small scale, shares learnings with peers and managers, socializes change and negotiates improvements on a larger scale. Implements checklists, templates and systems to improve coordination across all our projects.
• Champions and proactively inspires the adoption of key engineering excellence practices including Reflection, Learning, Code Review, Continuous Integration, and Automation.

• Bachelors or Masters STEM major (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math), or equivalent.
• 8+ years of experience, as a Release Manager, Program/Project Manager, QA Lead and/or Developer, working with technical teams developing software solutions. Including, 2+ years of hands-on experience as a Release Engineering/Manager/Lead.
• Experience with Source Code Management using version controlling tools such as Git, Perforce, SVN on private repositories for the organization in GitHub / BitBucket.
• Experience with CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment) methodologies with Jenkins, Artifactory and automated deployment techniques is a huge plus.
• Demonstrated curiosity and ability to understand architectural and technical aspects of Data Platform and DevOps projects, including #BigData and Hadoop based technologies.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent facilitation skills with ability to influence change at higher levels.
• PMP, or similar detailed knowledge of formal project management processes.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.