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Visa’s Corporate IT group has embarked on a major transformational journey. We will not follow the 'traditional' IT playbook of simply purchasing off the shelf solutions and stitching them together. We are transforming ourselves into a true engineering organization where we put customer experience first, create highly leveraged (and loved) platforms with a heavy emphasis on operational excellence such as ensuring our platforms and services are unbreakable. Where we choose to continue with packaged software, we will invent our way around such limitations as poor UI or scale.

Job Scope
 

This position reports to the Chief Information Officer and is responsible for leading the Legal & Compliance IT organization. You will provide innovative leadership, motivation, and guidance required for excellent IT to successfully meet strategic objectives and deliverables in support of the business needs. It will be critical to foster and drive innovation and experimentation, delivering software solutions that meet or exceed customer and stakeholder expectations, often helping shape business requirements in a manner that optimally leverages technology teams.

You will be responsible for a cross-functional global team of senior engineers, solution architects, technical project managers and operations teams to define technology project architecture, technology strategy, and play a leadership role providing guidance to stakeholders. You will provide thought and people leadership to identify and execute the actions required for the successful delivery of Visa’s strategic priorities. As a strong leader with superior communication skills, you will engage and challenge senior audiences, identify and prioritize actions, and navigate a highly matrixed, global environment.

Essential functions

• Developing and executing the technology strategies and roadmaps to meet business objectives with existing and/or emerging technologies in Legal & Compliance.
• Leading a growth organization by hiring, training, and maintaining high-performing teams, creating a safe and diverse work environment, developing personal growth opportunities for all levels of the organization.
• Partnering with the business on the technical strategy for next generation cloud solutions to support our business processes.
• Working closely with executive management to define priorities, direction, and timelines.
• Researching best practices and industry innovations and apply those across the business and technology landscape.
• Overseeing preparations of business case and needs analysis as they arise for the portfolio of applications.
• Develop an integration strategy to ensure one cohesive user interface with one source for information that adheres to our corporate integration strategy.
• Coordinating with functional and technical staff and lead system-related projects and initiatives such as new system functionality and/or new technologies.
• Responsibility for support and maintenance of our corporate systems.
• Proving leadership and oversight to large transformational programs across many functional teams including 3rd party vendors.
• Providing mentoring, coaching, career development and day to day management of work to a team of business analysts, process analysts, software engineers and support resources globally.
• Keep executive management informed of progress and obstacles impeding the successful architecture, implementation of projects and other departmental activities through status reports, presentations, etc.
• Provide workforce plans, budget development, tracking and forecasting. Manage the team to achieve target scope, schedule, and cost objectives.

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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• 12 years of relevant work experience with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Science, or Math, or 10 years of relevant work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g., Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 8 years relevant work experience with a PhD.
• Technology leadership experience with responsibility for growing and leading high-performance teams and directing the IT function.
• Extensive corporate and packaged application knowledge in organizations - 5000 employees.
• Experience planning, designing, and implementing efficient business and system solutions for Legal, Risk, Compliance or HR business functions.
• Experience deploying enterprise resource planning (ERP) level applications in global corporations.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• 15+ years of relevant work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g., Masters, MBA, JD, MD, PhD).
• 15+ years of technology leadership experience with increasing responsibility growing and leading high performance teams and directing the IT function.
• ITIL, Six Sigma or Agile development experience.
• Multi-tasking ability essential to handle multiple priorities with minimal direction from management and adjust to changing priorities and requirements in a rapidly growing organization.
• Ability to take ownership of complex, multi-faceted, open-ended problems and drive them to completion.
• Strong leadership and people management skills, with demonstrated ability to lead global, multi-functional teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and with an ability to explain the technology strategy to diverse audiences, in particular, the ability to describe IT situations, alternatives, and recommendations in readily understood non-technical language.
• Ability to drive consensus across diverse, global technology and business partners will be essential.
• Sound judgment, high ethical standards, and the ability to work effectively with others at all levels.

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.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 229,100.00 to 357,900.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.