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At Digital and Developer Platform, we are focused on creating smarter payment solutions that provide fast, easier ways to pay with your phone, web and other digital devices wherever you are – remote or proximity payment.

The Digital and Developer team is looking for Sr. Manager for Bangalore office to drive the evolution of mobile payment solutions and to build Visa's enterprise mobile enablement practice with new innovative ideas.  

As a Manager within Visa DDP you will form a leadership role in the development, and deployment of Platform tools and services. We are looking for experienced leaders to interact with business and technology stakeholders across the enterprise and be responsible for the quality of large-scale technology initiatives. Managers exercise independent judgment and take ownership of deliverables.  Candidates need to be technical and be able to participate in design and development meetings and make development decisions based on best practices.

Primary Responsibilities:

• We expect our Sr. Manager to do much more than just managing multiple teams
• Help our client to achieve their real goals by understanding the requirements and how it would help them in their business.
• Familiarity with budgeting, scheduling, contract and vendor management
• Experience with a variety of development methodologies and mature understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of each. Solid experience with Agile methods is a plus.
• Superior verbal, written & interpersonal communication skills with both technical & non-technical audiences.
• Experience in coaching engineers both on technical and career development
• Excellent team player, with strong collaboration skills and ability to influence cross-functional team for results
• Focus on building an efficient and collaborative team environment

Secondary Responsibilities:

• Proven ability to define needs, develop plans, coordinate resources and implement action plans.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously & to resolve scheduling & other conflicts in order to meet all deadlines.
• Develop business requirements and appropriate statistical analysis/prototypes to meet critical business needs
• Teach others through informal sessions such as brown bags and tech talks.
• Coach/mentor others within sub-function.
• Plays the “Player-Coach” role for the team at project level.
• Understands how a project fits into the overall technology roadmap and communicate to the team to help establish buy-in and ownership.
• Takes ownership and/or leads the engineering responsibility for multiple components in a project.
• Provides consultative work throughout the project lifecycle to ensure vision and goal of project is realized through delivery.
• Is able to coordinate engineering activities across the delivery of the project.
• Works with engineers to ensure they are delivering quality and efficiently against project requirements.
• Supports operational and QA teams in support activities such as troubleshooting, defect research, code promotion and configuration for projects lead by the engineer.
• Successful candidate will have a flair for out-of-box thinking and be passionate about mentoring and coaching junior software engineers. Candidate should also have passion for engineering excellence , reducing TCO and improving TTM.

• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or other related field
• 10+ years relevant work experience or an equivalent mix of work and project experience in software development.
• 2+ years of experience in managing/leading development teams

Preferred

• 2+ years in a leadership and management role
• Understanding of architecture and operations of highly available and scalable applications
• You have expertise of Core Java, JEE technologies, REST, Java, Spring, Spring Boot, hibernate, oracle, and and container based technologies
• Kafka, HDFS and other distributed technologies
• You have experience in consumer facing application development experience
• Proven track record of responsibilities as a technical lead
• You have experience architecting solutions with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery in mind
• You have amazing work ethics that will help us all work extremely well together
• You have the passion to understanding people and to always striving to improve our products and services!
• Must be detail-focused and have business oriented thinking
• Proven ability of handling multi-tasks in a dynamic environment
• Excellent business writing, verbal communication, and presentation skills
• Deep knowledge of web services standards and related technologies (XML, SOAP, REST)
• Experience with build tools like Maven, Jenkins
• Experience with Agile development methodology
• Ability and desire to learn new skills and take on new initiatives
• Thrive in self-motivated internal-innovation driven environment

Work Hours This position requires the incumbent to be available during core business hours.

Travel Requirements This position requires the incumbent to travel for work 10-15% of the time.

Mental/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, and reach with hands and arms.

EEO Statement 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.