In this role, you will manage a team of Technical Program/Project Managers who use Agile Development Methods and the Scrum Framework to deliver critical, customer facing, enterprise software development projects to our production systems. You will lead efforts to improve our processes, making our teams highly productive and also champion the adoption of engineering practices like Continuous Integration and Test Driven Development.
You will be responsible for hiring top talent and to keep the organization highly engaged and motivated, delivering exceptional results. Your ability to work across functions and teams will allow you to ensure alignment of priorities and goals, driving for results and fostering the right culture and the right environment to achieve excellence and innovation.
Responsibilities
-Provide leadership and oversight to a team of technical program/project managers who use agile practices and the scrum framework for the planning, execution and delivery of products.
-Provide leadership, mentorship and foster the right culture to enable success across the organization.
-Work with Business Sponsors to develop project roadmaps that align with business objectives/priority and take into account resource availability.
-Overall responsibility for planning, executing, tracking and managing cost, schedule, and scope for all projects in your portfolio.
-Direct project portfolio activities, conduct reviews, and use strong technical and business acumen to manage risk and address impediments escalated to you.
-Enforce consistency and standardize processes across your team and the broader project management organization.
-Drive improvements in software development practices/processes within your teams and across the organization.
-Drive the adoption of key engineering practices like Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development, etc. to improve quality and reliability of team's deliverables.
-Responsible for coaching and mentoring of local technology leaders on Agile/Scrum/Lean principles and practices.
-Manage HR and Performance aspects of employees.
-Mentor and guide local managers through their career paths.
Qualifications
Desired Skills and Experience:
-Bachelors or Masters with a STEM major (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math).
-15+ years relevant work experience
-10+ years of technical leadership experience
-10+ years of people management experience (preferably managing project managers)
-Exceptional knowledge of Agile/Scrum/Lean principles and practices.
-Solid understanding of project management techniques, methodologies, and best practices.
-Excellent ability to understand architectural and technical aspects of projects.
-Strong knowledge of SDLC principles and practices.
-Previous experience in managing a large portfolio of projects (over $20M).
-Deep experience in managing complex programs delivered by globally distributed teams.
-Strong leadership qualities and organizational skills as well as the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities, assignments, and roles.
-Demonstrated ability to succeed in a complex organization where the ability to discover and internalize diverse stakeholder goals is critical to brokering solutions that are in the best interest of Visa as a whole.
-Independent judgment and mature decision making skills to deal with programs that often have enterprise-wide scope and may have significant financial and compliance impacts.
-Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills. In particular, a demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels internally and externally as needed to support the strategic goals.
Desired Qualifications:
-Scrum Master Certification, PMP Certification
-Experience with online/ecommerce, payment processing, and/or financial systems
-International Experience a plus.
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