As the world’s leader in digital payments technology, Visa’s mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company’s relentless focus on innovation is a catalyst for the rapid growth of digital commerce on any device for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.

At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.

By joining one of our teams at Visa Payments Ltd, a division of Visa Inc since 2019, you’ll have an opportunity to shape the payments experience globally. Being part of Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments technology, our mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. 

Visa Payments Ltd Earthport is a financial technology business that provides cross-border payment processing services to banks and payments businesses across six continents through its global network. One of the fastest growing global Fintech businesses the Group also provides tailored FX and payment solutions direct to corporates through its Visa Payments Ltd FX brand.

Individuality fuels our brand and our global team – we are proud that we are a talented team of 18,000 individuals with unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Therefore, we understand that you are much more than your day job. We encourage quality of life both within and outside of the office, and whether it is taking advantage of agile work schedules or our wellness programmes, Visa Payments Ltd and Visa Inc. respects and encourages meaningful work/life balance for everyone.

You’re an Individual. We’re the team for you. Together, let’s transform the way the world pays.

If you think you could support the Visa family by joining Visa Payments Ltd as a Head of Technology Governance, we want to hear from you. 

What we expect of you, day to day.

• Ensure the delivery of all technology initiatives using appropriate agile project management techniques, leading the community of practice for this role while building capability and excellence (in an agile, lean practice).
• Work closely with stakeholders and delivery teams across the Programme to understand requirements, ensure a clear understanding of scope and priority of deliverables, and manage interdependencies across programs and/or portfolios.
• Ensure that respective resources maintain initiative scope on time and within budget, enabling business growth and operational excellence.
• Supports all Project and Programme managers and Scrum Masters with expertise, direction, motivation, and encouragement, working with other heads of roles to promote effective cross-functional delivery.
• Maintain compliance with Visa's Project Management Methodology and Key Controls, in partnership with the remaining Technology team functions.
• Maintain a strategic focus through ongoing dialogue with business partners, seeking to gain an understanding of key strategic objectives.
• Develop the people and organisational processes to grow our internal talent, while also ensuring that third party supplied resources also maintain a continuous improvement model.
• Create an environment that fosters openness, transparency, collaboration, and nurtures ideas and encourages diverse points of view.

Thinking about careers differently...

At Visa, we are passionate to offer our employees compelling career growth opportunities. As such, even if you do not have experience of this function there could be skills or experiences, which would transfer well. For this role, the key skills required are:

• Strong hands-on experience of Agile frameworks (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe), leading execution of project management techniques, methodologies, and best practices.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to coach, mentor and support other members of the engineering team, sharing technical and operational knowledge in a helpful and timely fashion.
• Direct management experience with project/program managers and experience with managing and developing senior managers.
• Strong leadership qualities and organisational skills as well as the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities, assignments, and roles.
• High level experience participating in and running technical delivery teams, preferably in the Financial Services domain.
• Agile, SAFe, PMP and CSM certifications are preferred.
• Solid exposure to the challenges of distributed systems, messaging and event driven architectures.
• Experience with both APIs and integration projects.
• Good understanding of release management particularly CI/CD pipelines, branching strategies and test automation.
• Substantial/high level experience with a bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience of operating and influencing at a strategic level.

Think you have what it takes?

If you are interested in a career that will challenge and inspire you – we’d love to hear from you!

Diversity & Inclusion

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere, is not only our brand promise, it’s the foundation of our company culture. We foster a feeling of connectedness in the workplace, support diversity of thought, culture and background, fight for important initiatives like Equal Pay and actively work to eliminate unconscious biases that hold us all back.

By leveraging the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of our worldwide teams, Visa Payments Limited is a better place to work and a better business partner to our clients.