Associate Application Analyst - GO

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.

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Job Description

The global operations team supports the Real-Time processing operations for Visa Inc., including Visa TPF based authorization platform (VIP-VisaNet) and the open system based OVN (Open VisaNet) platform. As a member of the Authorization Operations team, the Associate Systems Analyst you will be part of a team working in a multi-datacenter and multi-processing environment. You will provide first level response and assist with the mitigation or elimination of issues, which may be impacting to our clients, or the VISA brand. The preferred candidate will have the responsibility of being the first point of contact for internal Visa support teams and will need to possess excellent customer service, technical and analytical abilities to effectively manage their role. In your day-to-day activities, you may also provide activity oversight of any System Specialists who are part of your shift.

Our Authorization Operations team provides system monitoring and analysis of pertinent system information and work with our internal support teams to isolate and resolve the majority of events affecting a variety of mainframe, open system and distributed hardware and software systems. As a team member, you will document support procedures, managing each issue through resolution or turnover in order to maintain established service levels. You will track, update, and resolve all assigned incidents, changes and problem reports in the incident. Our team takes pride in ensuring that documentation is thorough, accurate and meets a standard of high quality. You will work closely with various L2 & L3 support groups and/or development groups to collaborate on the resolution of incidents and problems.

The preferred candidate will need to possess strong technical and analytical abilities, effective communication and documentation skills and display principal traits of collaboration, communication and demonstrating a passion for our business.

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
• Bachelor's degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience
Preferred Qualifications
• Associate: 2 or more years of work experience
• Minimum 6 months of relevant work experience or a Bachelor degree.
• Hands-on experience with supporting critical applications based on either:
• IBM TPF or equivalent Real Time Operating Systems
• Open source based distributed systems on Linux, Kubernetes, Kafka
• Experience with one or more of Linux, Unix, MVS, VM, SuperVision, HMC, Kubernetes, Kafka, Golang, Opera, DB2, or Cassandra
• Strong troubleshooting, critical-thinking and incident management skills
• Excellent verbal-written communication, organizational skills, ability to prioritize in a constantly changing workload.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to excel as part of a team.
• Ability to quickly learn Visa proprietary as well as industry standard tools to support monitoring and response for VIP Authorization issues.
Possess an Information Technology Infrastructure Library Foundation Certificate (ITIL), or ability to obtain within 6 months.

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 62,000.00 to 87,600.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.