Associate Technical Program Analyst, College Grad - Austin

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Payment Products Development (PPD) is the heart of making Visa the best way to pay and be paid for everyone, everywhere. Our objective is to deepen, extend and diversify our business model with a modern, scalable, and flexible foundation built for the future. The successful candidate will join the PPD Project Management Office (PMO), executing projects in the Client Services space.

Our team consists of highly visible leaders who direct complex, customer-facing, and enterprise-class software programs and projects. 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, create estimates, and produce Project Charters and other documentation needed for funding approvals
• 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
• Provide customer service and communicate project status (timelines, progress, and challenges) to technology and business stakeholders regularly
• Achieve project goals by engaging effectively with stakeholders, including enterprise architects and strategists, technical subject matter experts, business partners, Visa senior management, technology vendors, financial institutions and strategic partners, as needed
• Manage project budgets effectively by ensuring forecasts and actual charges are in line with approved bids and project costs are effectively controlled
• Anticipate change and identify ways to overcome challenges and constraints to keep project activities on schedule to meet or exceed business partner expectations
• Take initiative to exhaust all avenues to resolve issues/problems before involving management escalation
• Ensure project follows Visa's Agile Management Methodology and Key Controls
• Keep project status updated in project management tools 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

• 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.

• Good understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Knowledge of Project and Release Management principles include Agile methodologies
• Excellent time management, communication,…