Sr. Director SW Engineering
Sr. Director SW Engineering
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Job Description
Visa Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants 15k Financial Institutions and billions of everyday people. While working with us you will get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows value added services business and data solutions cyber security and B2C platforms.
The Opportunity
The Sr Director Engineering role in the Visa Commercial Card Solutions team entails leading multiple development teams to enhance the lifecycle of applications deployed on the private cloud platform. The teams are comprised of full stack developers tech leads and managers and directors who manage teams themselves. A successful candidate for this position will be able to have a positive impact on the experience of other product development teams within Visa.
Team Summary
The Visa Commercial Solutions global platform (VCS) team has overall responsibility for all aspects of platform strategy product development and management for commercial platforms. VCS serves clients engaged in providing payment products to small business middle market large corporate/multinational companies and governments
The Work itself
- The work involves leading teams adhering to Visa leadership principles of leading courageously obsessing about our customers collaborating with other teams and excelling in execution.
- The Visa Commercial Platform comprises of 100s of microservices and micro frontend components designed to work together as a cohesive platform to enable our customers to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of commercial payments: from ideation to launch. The primary language used in the backend is Java with Spring framework as the base framework. The front end is mostly built using Typescript and AngularJS. Other significant software frameworks leveraged are relational and no SQL database.
- This role is expected to collaborate closely with other partners in Operations and Infrastructure Cybersecurity Data AI Platform Visa Acceptance Platform Engineering teams. There will be significant integration with Commercial services requiring close partnership with them.
Essential Functions
The Skills You Bring
- Lead multiple development teams to manage and enhance Visa Commercial Card Platform
- Bring in strong technical expertise to drive the architecture and high level design of different services
- Lead technical discussions and communicate regularly with senior leadership on technical issues program status and escalations
- Define and advocate a set of standard technologies and architectural patterns for solving complex technical problems specifically in the cloud computing domain
- Champion SSDLC processes to deliver quality software on time using Gen AI improving productivity efficiency
- Act as a technical liaison between product engineering teams Cybersecurity and Operations
- Work closely with cross functional groups including internal stakeholders Product Managers Engineers Architects and external customers and vendors to formalize roadmaps and priorities.
- Lead by example demonstrating accountability and by contributing to departmental procedures best practices and standards
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
Qualifications :
Basic Qualifications
8 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD OR 11 years of relevant work experience.
Professional Experience
Extensive experience in software engineering and architectural design for highly scalable and always-on distributed systems
Proven expertise in the payments domain with indepth knowledge of Commercial Card solutions and Payment Integrations.
Demonstrated experience in leading and delivering complex projects from concept to deployment
Proficiency in agile development methodologies and practices
Technical Skills
Deep technical knowledge in cloud and hybrid cloud strategies
Proficiency in leveraging generative AI to enhance development processes and resource efficiency
Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Commercial Payment Services
Hands on experience consuming and integrating Gen AI tools (OpenAI APIs GitHub Copilot among others)
Experience building microservices specifically with HTTP REST JSON and XML
Experience with Messaging systems like Kafka IBM MQ
Experience with relationship and NoSQL database
Excellent analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
Leadership & Communication
Exceptional leadership skills with the ability to inspire and lead cross functional teams.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholder as sclients regional teams architects business and products
Ability to interface effectively with senior leadership providing clear and concise updates on project vision and progress
Preferred Skills
Experience with Visa (or other payment brands) products and services.
Familiarity with regulatory and compliance requirements in the payments industry.
Additional Information :
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.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
