Technical Product Owner

Job Description and Responsibilities

Open VisaNet (OVN), is the Next Generation of Visa’s core payment service - VisaNet. OVN will use best-in-class technology components to push the envelope as a highly scalable, secure, cost-effective and distributed application on commodity hardware. Open VisaNet (OVN) is one of Visa's Key initiatives which will help Visa support in-country and global processing solutions while providing Visa an opportunity to move away from proprietary hardware systems. Realizing the vision of OVN requires the collaboration of an exceptional group of software engineers, security specialists, DevOps engineers, payment experts, infrastructure architects and business analysts.

OVN is being delivered using an Agile process aligned with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). The Technical Product Owner will be responsible for assigned areas of VisaNet, documenting current capabilities that will be implemented in OVN. The Product Owner will work with the Visa business areas and technical SMEs to document the requirements and work in an OVN Agile Team to define stories, manage the Team Backlog and lead the product delivery.

Essential Functions

• Define and document detailed functional and non-functional requirements for OVN. These range from payment capabilities provided by VisaNet today, interfaces to other Visa systems or requirements for OVN technical components.

• Work with Visa SMEs and Analysts to articulate existing system behavior at a detailed technical level, through analysis of existing specifications and code.

• Write Features and Stories and manage the prioritized Team Backlog.

• Work with Visa product teams and other stakeholders to ensure OVN capabilities are aligned with Visa product strategy.

• Work with Architects and development teams to ensure detailed requirements are accurate, complete and can be understood by a diverse group of users.

• Collaborate with the quality assurance team on creation of testing artifacts.

• Coach development teams on the specific processing requirements of Visa switching, clearing and settlement in relationship to OVN requirements.

• Participate as needed in presentations to and discussions with key clients and stakeholders to share details about OVN and its value to the payment processing environment.

• Consult on a regular basis with leadership to align expectations and prioritize deliverables.

• Lead Team Demos and contribute to Retrospectives.

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.