Senior Director

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.

The Opportunity:

We are seeking a highly skilled and visionary Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics Technology Leader to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in BI technologies, data analytics, and leadership. They will be responsible for overseeing the development, implementation, and management of our BI and analytics strategies to support data-driven decision making across the organization. As a Visa Sr. Director, you will work in a rapid-paced environment leading various Data and System Engineering teams developing next generation solutions for Visa. We take a data-driven approach and are passionate about having a culture of learning fast and constantly iterating towards success. You will wear multiple hats and demonstrate breadth, depth, and leadership. The solutions you help create will have a multiplier effect across all of Visa. You will face big challenges and question the status quo, changing the way data products are developed at Visa. Come join us and see your efforts shape the digital future of payments.

The Work Itself:

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the BI and analytics team, providing direction, mentorship, and support to ensure high performance and professional growth.
• Develop and implement the BI and analytics strategy, aligning with the organization's goals and objectives.
• Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of BI solutions, including data warehouses, dashboards, and reporting tools.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, define key performance indicators (KPIs), and deliver actionable insights.
• Ensure data accuracy, integrity, and security in all BI and analytics processes.
• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in BI and analytics.
• Drive the adoption of BI tools and practices across the organization to foster a data-driven culture.
• Manage relationships with external vendors and partners to enhance BI capabilities.
• Create and maintain documentation related to BI processes, standards, and procedures.
• Monitor and report on the performance of BI initiatives, providing regular updates to senior management.
• Strong Negotiation Skills: You will be a distinguished ambassador for product development, collaborating, negotiating, managing tradeoffs and evaluating opportunistic new ideas with business partners

Essential Functions

• Provides framework and expertise for presenting technical solutions, capabilities, and features to stakeholders demonstrating how solution will support business strategy.
• Provides strategic vision for design and architecture documentation across products and sprints, leveraging existing architecture design patterns.
• Sets the strategy for identifying system, architecture, tools, and storage needs that support the requirements for the application across products.
• Understands people and hardware resource requirements and aligns across organizations to ensure requirements are met.
• Improves team processes so managers and senior engineers are equipped to ensure code meets quality standards, provides the technical vision for and establishes best practices.
• Establishes strategy to automate advanced data protocols, reduction techniques, and aggregation approaches to validate the quality of extracted data across the data pipeline.
• Anticipates issues and ensures that practices used to merge data into distributed systems, products, or tools are aligned across the organization.
• Oversees adherence to data management principles, governance, process, and tools to maintain quality across all projects.
• Champions best practices in testing to confirm functional capability of code.

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.

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Basic Qualifications
12+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications
*15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience
* Minimum of 5 years of proven experience in a leadership role with direct reports.
* Proven experience in BI and analytics, with a strong track record of leading successful BI projects.
* In-depth knowledge of BI tools and platforms (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker, QlikView, MicroStrategy).
* Proficiency in data modeling, SQL, ETL processes, and data warehousing concepts.
* Experience solving data problems using data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Hive, * Kafka, Redis, NoSQL, RDBMS).
* Experience with Analytics products (e.g., Power BI, MicroStrategy).
* Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining ETL pipelines.
* Experience in building and pushing code into production.
* Experience in implementing and supporting real-time systems.
* Certification in BI tools or data analytics (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Data Analyst * Associate, Tableau Desktop Specialist, Microstrategy).
* Experience with cloud-based BI and analytics solutions (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
* Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to explain complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
* Project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
* Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire teams, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.
* Experience with machine learning and advanced analytics techniques.
* Knowledge of data governance and data quality best practices.
*Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.

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.