Reporting to Visa’s VP End User Technology, this role provides senior leadership to drive strategic vision for Visa end user technologies. Develop and execute new initiatives through staff to enable all Visa employees to do their best work every day. Work collaboratively to define and execute business priorities with other functional and technology areas of Visa and senior leaders in various global markets. The ideal candidate should be a highly qualified executive with substantial experience managing and knowledge of network design, configuration, operations, and administration with strong leadership skills. S/he will have relevant management experience within a large, complex managed technology services organization.
Lead the development and launch of the global client compute (CC) strategy from concept to delivery with a focus on new technologies particularly open extensible platforms.
Thought leadership to guide the teams to manage the demands from projects and technology upgrades including near term direction for global vendor strategy, technology strategy and global alignment of networks.
Oversee all phases of CC projects including budgeting, planning, implementation, maintenance, administration, construction, staffing and logistics.
Strong people management skills with demonstrated ability to grow and mentor a high performing team
Drive organizational transformations along dimensions such as deep partnerships and agile collaboration with business, fostering a culture that encourages innovation.
Drive technical architecture and infrastructure planning as well as system hardware and software engineering activities.
Lead development of innovation and strategic direction in application of theories and concepts in end user technologies.
Analyze all assigned services from a cost, capacity, and forecast perspective, and continually evaluate new CC technologies and applications.
Ensure that Information Security and risk management are embedded within the culture requiring continuous improvement to a complex set of functions to coordinate security and compliance risks related to information systems and assets.
Direct the continuous and secure operation, administration and maintenance of the corporate computing and networking infrastructure, including development of Risk Management, Identity/Access Management, Information Security and Privacy, and Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans.
Work cross functionally to proactively ensure Visa end user technologies are capable of handling emerging or future business requirements.
Ensure that the CC operations are conducted according to corporate standards, and in compliance with external standards as defined in company objectives (e.g., ITIL, COBIT, ISO27001/27002 and similar).
Establish standards and governance in future acquisitions to mitigate risk and maximize CC stability.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or closely related discipline, required. Graduate degree in Computer Science or closely related discipline preferred.
15+ years-experience in software/systems engineering, deployment and operations.
Experience building and leading a large end user technology teams through major technology transitions
Prior experience in driving and leading enterprise technology and cultural transformation programs with purpose and energy to promote unified approach.
Strong technical acumen and should demonstrate the core fundamentals of the latest innovation in the Software Defined Data Center
Prior experience in Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies
Hands-on experience in designing and deploying large scale-out technologies
Great communicator and able to drive consensus across diverse/global technology teams
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