About

Sowmya Jagadish is a Talent Acquisition Specialist at Visa, leading software engineering hiring strategy and fulfillment for the company's Bangalore and Singapore locations. With over 5 years of experience in the complete recruitment life cycle, she has expertise in lead generation, requirement gathering, and mapping talent communities. Sowmya is instrumental in providing market intelligence and social media recruiting, keeping herself updated with the latest developments and trends in the ever-changing employment market. As a Talent Advisor at Visa, Sowmya has hands-on experience sourcing for APAC regions, India, and Singapore. She works as a core sourcer for CIT and O&I and VDLP and VLS TLT’s or business units, understanding the business requirements from the HM and stakeholders and delivering closures on time proactively. Sowmya has hands-on experience in Smart Recruiter tool and multiple recruiting sources, using advanced sourcing techniques to identify candidates. She keeps an eye on all processed candidates, ensuring they are engaged and satisfied throughout the recruitment process and helping them prepare for each phase of the interview. Sowmya has also worked as a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist at Microsoft, where she closely worked with client-aligned teams to know the hiring strategy plans on a monthly basis and create proactive pipelines for the core, ad-hoc req’s, and pivotal roles according to business needs. She has hands-on experience supporting different business units in Microsoft, including C+AI and E+D, and working for different MS-Products. Sowmya has managed the Microsoft internal employee transfer process in strong collaboration with business leaders, client-aligned recruiters, and HR business partners. She has hands-on experience in working on MS-Internal Transfers, Dual Offers, and Offer rollouts for different locations for different teams (Engineering & services). Sowmya has a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Banking, Corporate, Finance, and Securities Law, a Master of Business Administration in Human Resources Management and Services, and a Master of Business Administration in Human Resources. She has also completed PUC and SSLC from New Horizon College and Sri Ramakrishna Education Society, respectively. Sowmya's tech stack includes software engineering, Java, Spring Boot, Spring, microservices, frontend, backend, senior software engineering, AI, search, and infra.