Company Description

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.

Job Description

- Collaborate with all Business and Technology units within VISA to identify critical, time-sensitive functions. Define associated recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs).

·         Develop and implement a best-practices Disaster Recovery (DR) program to safeguard VISA’s information assets. Ensure appropriate information security measures and disaster recovery processes are in place.

·         Regularly validate and maintain the disaster recovery plan and program through rigorous testing, plan updates, and maintenance.

·         Lead annual DR testing activities to ensure VISA's readiness to maintain or restore systems online during a DR event.

·         Apply knowledge of network configurations, VPNs, firewalls, and other network components to investigate and provide guidance on potential network issues.

·         Utilize cloud-hosted services expertise in the implementation and management of disaster recovery processes.

·         Employ knowledge of storage devices and systems to define protective measures for data, including backups, replication, and encryption.

·         Utilize knowledge of databases like MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB to provide expertise on data backup, restoration, replication, and database failover procedures.

·         Effectively collaborate with middleware teams, utilizing platforms such as Java Web Services, Apache Kafka/Tomcat, Hazelcast to integrate diverse and complex systems.

·         Develop and maintain necessary documentation, including impact analysis, risk assessment, and DR/resiliency standards for service architecture and technology domain patterns.

·         Lead governance, documentation, and coordination with various technology teams and stakeholders in executing Visa’s Offline Backup & Recovery program.

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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
-2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications
-Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field- Required
-3+ years of relevant experience managing real time processing systems.
-2 years’ experience in business continuity and disaster recovery planning
-2 years’ experience working with IT departments in building Disaster Recovery/BC plans
-Excellent verbal/written communication, administrative, and computing skills
-Good understanding of Application/System architectures to implement solutions to maximize data availability and mitigate the risk of business interruption or data loss.
- Excellent presentation skills.
- Excellent program/project management skills
-Capable of developing strong and cooperative inter-departmental partnerships for joint actions
-Experience with creating, presenting, and deploying an enterprise business disaster recovery and contingency plans
-Experience with monitoring DR programs including audit and regulatory compliances
-Ability to create and implement related DR/BC standards and procedures
-In-depth risk assessment and solution management skills - strong problem solver
-Strong analytical skills needed to identify business process improvements, separate key issues, consider alternatives or multiple solutions, and effectively make recommendations
-Continuity knowledge either Continuity of Operations (COOP), Business Continuity Planning, Emergency Management, or IT Disaster Recovery Planning

Additional Information

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.