We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.
Release Manager is responsible for driving various teams, both internal and external, to deliver product development features to the market on a monthly/Bi-Weekly cadence. This position is responsible for identifying product rollout requirements including infrastructure, internal operations, external operations, training, etc. and then developing and executing against a project plan, proactively mitigating risks, and managing the software development life cycle from inception to production launch and post production support. This position requires a strong program manager familiar with the challenges that typically confront technology projects, limited resources, conflicting priorities, scope creep, time slippage, etc. and that can work through these challenges, escalating when necessary, and only after exhausting options with internal/external stakeholders.
Additional Information
Manage Deployment/Release windows both Production and Non-Production environments
Collaborating across global business and technology organizations, providing sound analysis and change leadership.
Building and maintaining strong internal customer relationships is essential as this position will work with Business Partners, internal staff and system integrators on a daily basis to ensure quality assurance is performed in alignment with global initiatives and requirements across the enterprise.
Provide comprehensive consultation to stakeholders regarding long- and short-range release delivery requirements and recommend innovations which anticipate the future directions of both business and information technology.
Provide governance and technical guidance on software components registered for certification and release vehicles. Need to have detail understanding of web applications, database, and infrastructure and configuration management to provide risk analysis on release provided to product team on business decisions.
Drive implementation of tested system changes with global distributed teams to determine priorities, schedule new builds and releases, and maintain the environment / build planning.
Drives improvement opportunity session with senior stakeholders related to release management, configuration management, release engineering, environment management, and security management.
Provides problem resolution support, specific to systems and server issues, identifies and resolves system/server problems, coordinating with application users to determine symptoms and ensure accurate problem definition.
Maintains direct knowledge of all operations management and technical processes, procedures, quality standards, and status of service delivery for all operations-related activities. Proposes systems management process improvements and additions.
Develop and maintain a high degree of system knowledge of the products.
Responsible for managing distributed teams across multiple regions and product areas
Leads project teams to achieve milestones and objectives, leading global teams at distributed locations preferred
Interfacing with external business stakeholders.
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience: 8 - 12 years of experience in build and release management, with a proven track record of managing complex build and release processes in a software development environment.
