Associate Technical Program Analyst - College Grad

Job Description

At its core, Visa is a payments network that connects consumers and merchants with financial institutions. At the heart of our brand promise is Visa Net, of which the main components are authorization, clearing and settlement and dispute resolution systems.

Payment Products Development (PPD) is the Visa technology organization with responsibility for maintaining and enhancing Visa Net to meet current and future market needs. We develop and manage end-to-end technology solutions that deliver reliable, scalable, and secure financial transaction processing services to Visa's clients.

This position will lead projects in PPD, ensuring the delivery of regional and global solutions, as driven by the business. The position works with technical staff, business partners and senior management across organizational boundaries to obtain resources, schedule work activities and coordinate all areas to successfully complete project deliverables.

• Work with business and technology subject matter experts to assess requirements, define scope, align conceptual approach with requirements, collect labor and non-labor estimates, and produce project schedule
• Plan and coordinate delivery of small-scale projects that span multiple organizations
• Set clear expectations with business partners to provide transparency into project initiation activities, and manage day‑to‑day interaction during project execution and delivery
• Perform project planning and scheduling, manage tasks and coordinate project resources to meet objectives and timelines
• Proactively identify, manage, and mitigate project risks and find ways to accomplish project goals in the context of dynamic business/technical environments
• Be a communication hub for the project team, and ensure all stakeholders have the appropriate information in a timely manner to perform their jobs and provide customer service by communicating project status (timelines, progress, and challenges) to technology and business stakeholders regularly
• Achieve project goals by engaging effectively with stakeholders, including enterprise architects, technical subject matter experts, product owners, team of team leads, development and test engineering teams, Visa senior management, technology vendors, and financial institutions and strategic partners, as needed
• Anticipate change and identify ways to overcome challenges and constraints to keep project activities on schedule to meet or exceed business partner expectations
• Drive brainstorming sessions with the appropriate stakeholders to resolve issues and take initiative to exhaust all avenues to resolve issues/problems before involving management escalation
• Ensure project is in compliance with Visa's Project Management Methodology, Agile Management Methodology, and Key Controls
• Share knowledge amongst direct team members and project team members; contribute to domain knowledge library and training materials.
• Use Gen AI for automation and create efficiencies in project workflows.
• Keep project status updated in project management tools (i.e. Jira Align, Jira Standard) and maintain good records (e.g. project financials, schedule, issues, risks, change control decisions)
• As a global organization, there may be a need to attend calls/meetings after/before standard office hours during the week

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, CIS/MIS, Cybersecurity, Business or a related field, graduating May 2025 - August 2026.
• Strong communication skills, specifically, the absence of repeated grammatical or typographical errors, clear and concise written and spoken communication, and communication that demonstrate professional judgment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Good understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Knowledge of Project and Release Management principles including Agile methodologies
• Excellent time management, communication, presentation, and organization skills
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft tools (SharePoint, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, MS Teams, Copilot M365)
• Competence in using Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools (Copilot M365, ChatGPT, Perplexity) and LLM…