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We are currently seeking a Senior Systems Engineer within the IT Disaster Recovery organization. The Senior Systems Engineer will work to advance the development and execution of the Disaster Recovery Program within VISA INC. In this position the Senior Systems Engineer will be expected to establish new standards for the design and technical implementation of disaster recovery capabilities for applications and infrastructure across core Visa platforms. The Senior Systems Engineer will play a lead role on the VISA INC.’s Disaster Recovery (DR) team and will work with systems and business teams to identify risks in the environment to create viable recovery solutions and mitigation plans.

Responsibilities

• Work with all the Business units within VISA to define critical, time-sensitive functions along with the associated recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives.
• Create a best-practices DR program to protect VISA’s information assets, ensuring appropriate information security measures and disaster recovery processes are in place.
• Lead technical oversight for ITDR programs across key Visa platforms.  Define DR program scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders
• Validate existing application and system architectures to ensure expected DR objectives and measures are being achieved.
• Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications to ensure appropriate decision making occurs to support RTO and RPO requirements.
• Work with different departments within VISA to understand business processes and uncover potential risks.
• Ensure the validity of the business continuity plan and program through regular testing and plan updates and maintenance.
• Use Application Impact Assessments (AIA) to develop scenarios to re-establish operations from various types of technical disruptions.
• Lead annual DR/BCP testing activities to ensure VISA is prepared to keep or bring systems online during a DR/BCP event.
• Develop and deliver an appropriate Awareness Program to be used enterprise-wide for the purposes of educating VISA associates on the importance of a comprehensive DR program.
• Create and maintain required documentation which at a minimum should include impact analysis, risk assessment, and DR/resiliency standards for service architecture and technology domain patterns.
• Create KPIs and dashboards to report the success in implementing ITDR technology architecture standards.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field: Required
• Master Degree : Preferred
• 6+ years of relevant experience managing real time processing systems.
• 3 years’ experience in business continuity and disaster recovery planning
• 3 years’ experience working with IT departments in building Disaster Recovery/BC plans
• 4+ years working knowledge of critical business processes, products, and services
• 2 + years’ experience as a Technical Architecture with strong application of Resiliency Architecture and Design Patterns.
• Excellent verbal/written communication, administrative, and computing skills
• Good understanding of Application/System architectures to implement solutions to maximize data availability and mitigate the risk of business interruption or data loss.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Strong understanding of BCM and its integral partnership with IT Disaster Recovery at both technical and business levels
• Excellent program/project management skills
• Capable of developing strong and cooperative inter-departmental partnerships for joint actions
• Experience with creating, presenting, and deploying an enterprise business disaster recovery and contingency plans
• Experience with monitoring DR programs including audit and regulatory compliances
• Preference for certification in TOGAF and ability to create and maintain required project documentation
• Ability to create and implement related DR/BC standards and procedures
• In-depth risk assessment and solution management skills - strong problem solver
• Strong communication skills with the ability to facilitate meetings
• Strong analytical skills needed to identify business process improvements, separate key issues, consider alternatives or multiple solutions, and effectively make recommendations
• Continuity knowledge; either Continuity of Operations (COOP), Business Continuity Planning, Emergency Management, or IT Disaster Recovery Planning

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