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Specifications and Standards activities enable ubiquity by maximizing global interoperability and commonality across technology platforms, while providing the flexibility to enable ongoing competition and product differentiation by the various participants in the payments ecosystem. Participation in standards bodies, liaison organizations and advisory groups form the building blocks for all of Visa’s existing and future products and services. Security programs and standards are the cornerstone of ensuring interoperability.
TheDirector, Global Digital Standards Management, will be member of the Global Standards Management team responsible for managing Visa’s security standards throughparticipation and engagement within Industry Standards, as well as in industry related advocacy and trade associations. The Global Standards Management team ensures standards participation, decisions, formal contributions and general issue resolution aligns with Visa strategy. The team creates and manages the overarching strategy related to Visa’s ongoing involvement in such organizations, as well as all global communications between standards participants, the decision-making bodies and the executive team. Additional responsibilities include stakeholder training and education, issue escalation and ongoing management, executive level education and awareness.
Visa's digital standards are managed through the Visa Ready Security program which establishes and maintains security requirements for third-party partners as well as generating security requirements for new digital consumer products. We are looking for a Director to support the evolution of Visa’s secure digital payments. The focus will be on the security of digital payment solutions across mobile and IoT platforms as well as web applications and will support the Visa Ready partner programs by developing and managing security requirements for new and existing digital products by working with product, technology, and risk and information security teams, to establish these requirements. In addition, this role will be responsible for working internal with Global security teams to ensure that Visa use of digital security standards continues to evolve.
ResponsibilitiesBe part of a collaborative team who shares responsibilities for overall oversight and management of Visa’s standards and industry body participation, including:
· Liaise with key Visa stakeholders to gather and prioritize the strategic objectives for specifications and standards.
· Represent Visa at key industry standards bodies and industry forums, as appropriate, to ensure resulting industry standards and global specifications meet Visa strategic objectives for specifications and standards
· Bring subject matter expertise and market insight to Visa to educate and support the business teams impacted by resulting specifications and standards
·In conjunction with the Standards Working Group, create various white paper/assessment reports, including initial and going recommendations to the Corporate Risk Committee (CRC) regarding:
Particular focus will be on multiple security related Standards groups and trade associations globally. Examples may include, but aren’t limited to, EMVCo, International Organization for Standardization (ISO), GlobalPlatform, InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), World Wide Web (W3C) Consortium, .
·Triage major issues arising out of a standards organization, including communications/awareness to the SWG, CRC, Executive Committee (EC), and/or Operating Committee (OC) as appropriate, including development of white papers/position papers
·While an individual contributor role, the individual shall have demonstrated experience in leadership and team management in the past and must be able to lead successfully across a matrix organization of stakeholders to execute against responsibilities – holding others accountable/responsible without have direct management oversite
The Visa Digital Standards team is looking for a person with a background in security and who can learn quickly, work in a team to manage security requirement development, interact with solution providers and external security laboratories responsible for performing the evaluations and take the lead in assessing the overall security of new consumer payment solutions. This includes contributing to the architectural security design review and the processes for assessment of digital payment solutions. You will provide actionable input and recommendations to the team as to whether these solutions meet Visa requirements. This will include risk considerations such as the tradeoff between logical and physical security requirements, as well as local versus remote solution “health” status monitoring. As a team member you will contribute to maintaining security knowledge of standards, industry best practices, and emerging attack/prevention trends and technologies as they apply to the Visa Ready program. Based on the dynamic nature of digital payments, this includes providing enhancement recommendations to ensure that the Visa Ready documentation is current. You will also work with the Product Technology testing group to coordinate 3rd party security reviews as well as managing the Visa security lab partners and participating in security lab audits.
Additional responsibilities will include participation on a number of digital standards organizations such as W3C webauth, ISO and EMVCo security focused efforts.
Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law