Technical Program Manager

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.

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Job Description

We are looking for a Project Manager to drive key project initiatives in Payment Products PMO. Responsible for delivering small, medium scale projects, providing project support to the Project Management team engaged in delivering significant projects or small programmes across Visa for the Network Processing organisation in Technology.

The right candidate will have to demonstrate solid leadership in leading and managing development teams and delivering successful outcomes. This candidate is expected to partner with key Business and Technical Leaders to define, prioritize and drive project portfolios to successful and impactful delivery. They will help evolve workflow processes and policies to fit the ever-changing needs and capabilities of our growing company.

• Deliver small, medium scale projects
• Accountable for the end-to-end planning and execution of one or more projects
• Support the production of Project Plan updates
• Support the production and circulation of status and milestone reports
• Drive execution of the project plan and facilitates management of scope, schedule, risk and quality
• Prepare and support project, work stream meetings, including meeting management, minute taking, preparing agendas and circulating inputs, outputs
• Lead, participate in project status presentations to Project stakeholders
• Support RAID management through updating logs
• Maintain and manage the Programme, Project Teams, Sharepoint, JIRA
• As a global organisation, there may be need to take attend calls, meetings after or before office hours during the week and flexibility is essential.
  
  

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

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Mid Level work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 4 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD degree or equivalent.
• Certifications (at least one Preferred): PMP, CSM , Prince 2 Foundation or Agile or equivalent
• Highly experienced in developing, operating, and tailoring Waterfall and Agile Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies.
• Develop metrics and reports using Rally,Jira to help the team understand its health and progress and to set goals
• Experience of supporting small to medium complex IT projects, programmes with multiple stakeholders with different and often conflicting needs
• Technical acumen to capture, communicate and drive issues, blockers, risks to resolution
• Key management skills:
• Strong Communication: Clear and concise verbal and written skills
• Meeting facilitation
• Team leadership, coaching, and conflict resolution
• MS PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Project, Visio
• Manage teams in a matrixed geographically disperse environment
• Strong Coordination to interface with other technology and business teams to ensure projects adhere to Security, Sourcing, Networking, Intellectual Property and other Visa processes.
• Ability to collaborate with business and technology subject matter experts in product ideation to help refine requirements, scope and create a viable program, project including accurate and inclusive estimates, integrated plans, and securing funding approvals.
  
  

Additional Information

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.