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The Visa Technology Planning and Program Management (PPM) team in the Operations and Infrastructure group is looking for an experienced Technical Program Managers to lead and direct large complex end-to-end IT initiatives.  In this role you’ll lead initiatives at the heart of Visa’s growth strategy, be at the center of teams working to solve some of the most challenging growth, scale and resiliency problems, all while delivering new features, products and services to customers across the global payments and financial services marketplace.  

You’ll work across the Product, Product Development, Infrastructure Engineering technology domains (compute, storage, database, network, middleware, & operations, etc.) interacting with the some of the best and brightest engineers, architects, and product leads pushing the boundaries of what’s achievable in delivering new and innovative payment solutions to the masses.  

You’ll need a solid technical foundation of both depth and breadth to manage and guide teams in planning, designing and delivering large-scale high volume and resilient platforms to our customers.  Your passion for excellence coupled with uncompromising standards and a positive principle-centered approach to leadership will help lift the programs you lead to new levels of performance. 

Essential Functions: 

• End-to-end Program Management of multiple initiatives and resources across Visa’s Technology and Product groups with alignment to strategic business objectives. 

• Work closely with cross-functional groups including internal stakeholders (Product Managers, Engineers, Architects, etc.), and external customers and vendors to formalize program and project roadmaps & priorities to ensure the PPM organization appropriately plans, designs, builds, and delivers hardware and software infrastructure for platforms and solutions with a focus to on time delivery. 

• Responsible as Site Lead Manager to PPM resources in India and in strengthening leadership for PPM in the APAC region in respect to resource goals, objectives, and execution.

• Responsible for managing and influencing project scope and change control, creating accurate and inclusive estimates, management of program budgets vs actual spend, and project schedules,  while proactively mitigating risks that could impact milestones and deliverables.    

• Drive clear, concise and actionable meetings that bring the right partners to the table and drive decision-making for PPM resource execution.

• Lead transformation of raw thoughts to ensure clear technical requirements to formalize technical designs and infrastructure blueprints. 

• Lead technical discussions and communicate regularly with senior leadership on technical issues, program status, and escalations 

• Provide leadership and oversight of program performance in India and ensure compliance with management and information security policies 

• Ensure strong coordination with virtual teams located in different time zones and with differing cultures 

• Use abilities to positively influence customers,  stakeholders, and staff members and properly manage divergent expectations 

• Improve team processes that accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and/or improve quality.   Mentor and enable strong career development of staff members

Qualifications 

Basic Qualifications: 

• 8-10 years of work experience in Technical Program Management or Solution Architecture practices enabling infrastructure (HW/SW) design, development, and deployment. Demonstrated leadership in architecture planning and infrastructure projects for high availability and high volume service platforms with significant experience in organizations bringing to bear lean/agile methodologies 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or MIS with an Advanced Technical Degree.     

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Masters Degree in Compute Science. 

• 3+ years’ experience working with and understanding distributed environments within and across Public & Private Clouds and technology domains (compute & storage systems, middleware, database, network, demand/capacity planning, and/or application development)  

• PMP/Solution Architecture or similar certifications 

• Experience with Waterfall and Agile (SCRUM, XP, Lean & Kanban, etc.) methodologies  

• Experience with Architecture and Project Management Tools 

• ITIL v3 and TOGAF Certification 

• Experience mentoring more junior team member 

• Naturally exude team-building, motivating, and conflict-resolving qualities 

• Exemplary English communication skills (written and verbal) 

• Cross-cultural and diverse teams' collaboration and partnership 

• Healthy obsession with over-delivering quality project results on-time and on-budget 

Additional Information 

Work Hours:  

• Incumbent must make themselves available during core business hours. 

• Requires availability to meet with teams in the Asia Pacific and Europe time zones on a regular basis 

Travel Requirements: 

• This position requires the incumbent to travel for work 5-10% of the time. 

Physical Requirements: 

• This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers, reach with hands and arms, and bend or lift up to 25 pounds. 

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.