Data Lifecycle Capabilities Director

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 the all 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 Director, Data Lifecycle Capabilities, is responsible to contribute to the build out of Visa’s data lifecycle capability by providing best in class technology, tools and solutions to data owners and stewards. This individual must be able to work across functions, business units, regions and I deep collaboration with Global Data Office staff to identify best practices and areas of opportunity. Experience with data engineering, Technology platforms, tooling with proven ability to build new capabilities, drive organizational impact and act as change agent critical to success.

Candidate will be responsible for championing the effort in driving and maturing a robust Data Management capability at Visa, including:

• Maintaining a strong foundation of data lifecycle management capabilities, embedded into key platforms to strengthen Visa’s data lifecycle capabilities
• Contributing to the design, build out and maintenance of best in class platforms, tools and capabilities leveraging AI/ML to support data owners, stewards and users growing demand for intelligent & insightful data lifecycle management.
• Leading the definition, development and ongoing management & evolution of an integrated data management ecosystem
• Serving as Subject Matter Expert (SME) on implementation and maintenance of a Vendor provided Enterprise Data Catalog capability
• Delivering enterprise data capabilities, including but not limited to, capabilities to improve quality, lifecycle management, and analysis solutions
• Designing, implementing, and overseeing suitable processes and system capabilities to maintain a comprehensive data inventory and catalog
• Creating solutions for managing data lifecycle and lineage of data assets through analyzing, developing, and deploying an enterprise data catalog that addresses data lineage in support of privacy, security, regulatory, legal objectives in alignment with Visa’s policies and standards
• Conducting business process analysis, needs, assessments, and leads design sessions/user story workshops to align solutions with business needs
• Leading and performing interviews of complex areas with business and technical experts to maintain accurate baseline data inventory
• Turning data into action through rolling up complex issues across multiple business areas and developing solutions to address
• Contributing to the development of enterprise-level technology solutions, leveraging automation, AI and ML techniques
• Overseeing systems and capabilities under development and ensuring proper level of documentation in place and maintained
• Working closely with Data Lifecycle Management Partners to ensure business challenges are properly addressed through sustainable solution/ approach
• Partnering with business/technical staff to diagnose issues and create improvement suggestions
• Serving as a SME for critical data project(s), mapping data elements, ensuring appropriate metadata is captured, and rules are defined for critical data elements
• Leveraging large data sets to provide insight-driven decision-making support for strategic initiatives around viewing insights

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