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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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 Senior Manager, Data Lifecycle Partner, is responsible for the successful integration of our Policy and Frameworks into Visa’s Product and Payment Services Business Units. This individual must be able to effectively identify, assess and communicate areas of strength and opportunity in order to continually strengthen our data capabilities and overall control environment. The individual will be regarded as a trusted business partner leveraging curiosity and expertise to drive data lifecycle management maturity.  

Candidate will be responsible for driving Visa’s data lifecycle capability maturity within the Product and Payment Services Business Units through:

• Developing partnerships with Business Partners within Visa’s Product and Payment Services Business Units to identify, assess, treat and monitor the data lifecycle management control environment.
• Driving the implementation/operationalization of data governance policies, standards, guidelines and processes
• Working with data owners/stewards to ensure data is connected, clean, and complete across the functional domain to enable business decisions, risk management, and business value
• Driving the build out of an accurate and comprehensive Functional Data Asset Inventory
• Working with functional data owners and stewards to analyze, develop, construct, deploy and maintain an enterprise data catalog that addresses data lineage in support of privacy, security, regulatory, legal objectives in alignment with data policy and standards
• Engaging Data Owners to document business metadata that describe and provides necessary context, understanding of functional business terms and usage
• Working with Technology to document to an appropriate level of granularity (conceptual, logical, or physical), for the functional data (including technical metadata) within systems
• Profiling data processing in critical business processes, documenting the data quality control to assess the data quality and ensure its fit for business purpose
• Documenting and assessing the data flow through the business process to identify control weaknesses or gaps and recommend mitigation
• Partnering with Business and Technology stewards to identify and document each interface by which functional data is provided to or consumed from
• Partner with Technology, Product and Data Capability team to design, implement, and oversee processes to maintain fit for purpose data catalog
• Partner with Data Capability team to inform solutions for managing the lifecycle and lineage of data assets
• Defining key risk indicators to assist management in the early identification of risk trends
• Communicating and educating Visa staff to fully operationalize and embed policies and governance framework
• Interfacing & responding to regulator requests & reporting to relevant governance forums
• Working seamlessly with a wide group of internal customers in a way that engenders mutual respect and consideration for the other party’s point of view

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.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.