Senior Manager, Issuing Solutions - Platform Services Development

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

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: 

As a Senior Manager in Issuing Solutions, you will manage the Platform Services development team based in Highlands Ranch, CO where you will be responsible and accountable for the design, development, and support of multiple applications across several hardware platforms.   This position will have responsibility of day-to-day management of a team of up to 10 software developers and will also contribute to the software development process.  This position will report to the Director of Issuing Solutions Platform Services development based in Highlands Ranch, CO.  

Essential Functions:

• Build and maintain a high performing team, hire and retain the right talent in the right role

• Develop and empower direct reports to make appropriate technical decisions

• Demonstrate Visa’s core values and maintain a positive and open demeanor

• Foster a culture of teamwork, collaboration and mentoring

• Manage resources in alignment with forecast models

• Partner with Product resources to identify clear business requirements

• Manage development resources by setting clear business and technical expectations

• Manage development resources across multiple technologies including .Net, Java, SQL, NoSQL, Windows, Unix/Linux

• Work collaboratively with senior management, architecture and senior development staff to develop broadly acceptable solutions

• Set resource goals and delegate project work

• Drive consistency in artifacts and deliverables, budgets, and resource planning

• Identify process improvements and/or ineffective use of project hours and resources

• Generate innovative ideas, solutions, and opportunities to contribute to the Visa enterprise and Issuer Processing success

• Ensure resource availability to support deployment activities in various environments

• Take complete responsibility of the full life cycle of projects and oversee software release implementations when required

The Skills You Bring:

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale
• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, ‘hacking’ beyond traditional solutions
• Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++)
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.

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.

Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
• 8+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 11+ years of
relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications
• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor