Senior Technical Program Manager

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

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Job Description

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.   We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.   

The Opportunity:

The VBS and VGS Program and Business Management team ensures high quality results, consistent project / program / business management processes, governance, and coordination. Additionally, the team drives agility / performance efficiencies by managing processes including portfolio, budget, workforce, and communications management.

Our Technical Program Managers in Commercial & Money Movement Solutions (CMS) division are highly visible leaders, building bridges across Visa to ensure projects are effectively developed, integrated, and deployed with quality and on time delivery into our production systems.

VBS team employs agile delivery and moving toward SAFe. This is a technical Program management role that would provide coaching to other team members on SAFe framework, SDLC, compliance activities and process improvements. This position is based in Warsaw, Poland.

A strong candidate will have a solid experience with technology/ product program management, release management, x-functional team leadership, as well as superb skills in communications, business analysis, problem-solving, cross-team coordination, communications, processes, and change management. The ideal candidate is not just a facilitator or project plan tracker but ensures things get done. The ideal candidate must have a drive to get things done and a “make it happen” attitude.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for managing large scale, cross divisional program/projects with budgets up to $10M.
• Work with Product Owners to develop program roadmaps which align to business objectives and sequenced by priority and resource availability.
• Work with business and technology subject matter experts to define scope, create estimates, develop budgets, and produce documentation needed for funding approvals.
• Ensure the program and projects are in compliance with Visa's Project Management Methodology and Key Controls and that accurate and timely information is reported regularly on program progress and financial status.
• Provide timely and accurate reporting to all stakeholders; hold regular cross organizational management briefings.
• Lead boldly and utilize hard and soft skills to influence participants of all levels towards the common goal.
•  Proactively identify and mitigate risks and issues.
• Identify and manage dependencies and impacts.
• Maintain meticulous records of projects and programs financials, issues, risks, decisions, schedules.
• Facilitate development of solutions that automate the release cycle from code check in to deployment.
•  Drive improvement in overall efficiency and reliability of our release and deployment processes.
• Facilitate solutions for identified security vulnerabilities and track to timely remediation.
•  Exercise independent judgment with minimal direction from supervisor

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
· Bachelor’s Degree AND minimum of ten (10) years of relevant work experience
OR
· Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) AND se