Senior Director, Data Governance and Life Cycle Management Leader

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 Data Policy and Governance Team (DP&G) creates and implements foundational data management and governance policies, standards and processes. Visa’s brand is built on trust. As the world’s leader in digital payments, we hold ourselves to the highest standards for data usage, protection and privacy. Our goal is to be both a protector and enabler of growth, helping Visa staff to use data to make critical business decisions, drive operational excellence and improve employee engagement, drive growth for Visa and our clients, optimize cost and minimize risks to the enterprise.

The Data Governance and Lifecycle Management Leader will significantly impacts the company by effectively maturing Visa’s data lifecycle management capabilities. The role is jointly responsible for evolving Visa’s existing Data Governance Framework and driving its implementation, using best-in-class approaches that harness appropriate technologies, methodologies, and emerging standards that will bring immediate impact to the organization. By keeping a flexible and innovative approach, this leader will find ways to achieve efficiencies that enable the business rather than disrupting day-to-day operations in pursuit of abstract Data Governance goals. Operationalization will be achieved through a team of Data Lifecycle Management Partners who will perform reviews of functions, business units and regional data lifecycle management practices under the leadership of this individual.

The role will also serve as the communication liaison to senior management and key governance forums.  This individual will be a trusted business partner who consults executive management to make key decisions, leveraging deep expertise.  Where constructive challenge to functions is needed, the Data Governance and Lifecycle Management Leader will make recommendations to Senior Management on controls or other actions required to mature and uplift data operations. The candidate is to be viewed by the organization as knowledgeable, capable, competent, and an agent for change. 

This role reports into the Vice President, Data Policy and Governance.

It is expected that the candidate will deliver the following:

• A dynamism, commercial orientation, and culture of partnership within the broader function and other business functions

• A global, collaborative mindset and alignment with the strategic objectives of Visa Inc

• Key actions that contribute to the successful implementation of Visa’s Data Governance Framework, which requires deep domain expertise, appropriate technical knowledge, strong collaboration, and strategic skills

• A strong Data Lifecycle Management capability.  This will involve creating standards that all Visa staff can understand, follow and continually strengthen.  

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:
• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA /JD/MD), or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:
• 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience
• 15+ Years of progressive experience
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of data governance and lifecycle management practices.
• Expertise in collaborating cross-functionally to ensure organizational change deeply embeds
• Track record in synthesizing complex information to produce impactful management information and support informed executive decision mak