Technical Program Analyst
Location
Bangalore | India
Job 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
At its core, Visa is a payments network that connects consumers and merchants with financial institutions. At the heart of our brand promise is VisaNet, of which the main components are authorization, clearing and settlement and dispute resolution systems. Payment Products Development (PPD) is the Visa technology organization with responsibility for maintaining and enhancing VisaNet to meet current and future market needs. We develop and manage end-to-end technology solutions that deliver reliable, scalable, and secure financial transaction processing services to Visa’s clients.
This position, based in Bangalore, India, will lead projects in PPD, ensuring the delivery of regional and global solutions, as driven by the business. The position works with technical staff, business partners and senior management across organizational boundaries to obtain resources, schedule work activities and coordinate all areas to successfully complete project deliverables.
Responsibilities
- Work with business and technology subject matter experts to assess requirements, define scope, create estimates, and produce Project Charters and other documentation needed for funding approvals
- Plan and coordinate delivery of small-scale projects that span multiple organizations
- Set clear expectations with business partners to provide transparency into project initiation activities, and manage day-to-day interaction during project execution and delivery
- Perform project planning and scheduling, manage tasks and coordinate project resources to meet objectives and timelines
- Proactively identify, manage, and mitigate project risks and find ways to accomplish project goals in the context of dynamic business/technical environments
- Provide customer service and communicate project status (timelines, progress, and challenges) to technology and business stakeholders regularly
- Achieve project goals by engaging effectively with stakeholders, including enterprise architects and strategists, technical subject matter experts, business partners, Visa senior management, technology vendors, and financial institutions and strategic partners, as needed
- Manage project budgets effectively by ensuring forecasts and actual charges are in line with approved bids and project costs are effectively controlled
- Anticipate change and identify ways to overcome challenges and constraints to keep project activities on schedule to meet or exceed business partner expectations
- Take initiative to exhaust all avenues to resolve issues/problems before involving management escalation
- Ensure project is in compliance with Visa's Project Management Methodology and Key Controls
- Keep project status updated in project management tools and maintain good records (e.g., project financials, schedule, issues, risks, change control decisions)
- As a global organization, there may be a need to attend calls/meetings after/before standard office hours during the week
- This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate their time between remote work and the office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work at least 50% of the time from the office.
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
• 4-7 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree(B.E/B.Tech preferred)
Preferred
Qualifications
• Experience managing small scale and mid-sized cross functional projects involving product delivery and/or technology modernization/integration using waterfall and agile methodology.
• Experience conducting Agile Ceremonies as a Scrum Master
• PMP, CSM, SAFE certifications are a plus
• Strong process orientation, solid understanding of project management techniques (waterfall / agile), release management methodologies, and related best practices
• Ability to coach team in agile practices and lead scrum teams towards higher maturity levels
• Experience working with product owners in facilitating backlog grooming and handover to teams
• Exposure to tools like Tableau, JIRA, Confluence, Wiki, or similar tools/technologies
• Demonstrated organizational, planning, and analytical skills, including project scheduling, estimating, risk identification, and change management
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, and demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions across multiple organizational levels
• Ability to work independently, yet seamlessly integrate activities and collaborate effectively within a program team and across other organizations
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to think strategically
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office tools (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, SharePoint)
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.
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