Vice President, Software Development Engineering

Visa is seeking a seasoned and highly motivated leader in the Commercial and Money Movement Solutions Product Development (CMS PD) group in the role Vice President Engineering reporting to Senior Vice President CMS PD. 

Commercial and Money Movement Solutions (CMS) is a strategic growth pillar for Visa that will deliver significant revenue for the company over the coming years. CMS is focused on driving Visas strategy to expand beyond core Consumer to Business (C2B) payments into broader money movement flows across individuals businesses and governments. The CMS PD team within Visa Technology is chartered with building the platforms and product capabilities that will directly enable the growth aspirations of our CMS business.  

As Vice President Engineering in CMS PD you will be a key leader in our organization chartered to infuse next generation thinking into product development practices anticipate and leverage emerging technologies for strategic advantage and drive innovation initiatives to deliver a highly differentiated product offering to our clients. 

Essential Functions:  

• Partner with business counterparts to develop multi-year strategic outlook plans for the product vertical. 
• Define technology strategy for your product vertical in alignment with established business objectives. 
• Provide leadership and oversight to a large team (150) of technology leaders and developers implementing highly scalable low-latency high-throughput software systems that have five 9s plus availability. 
• Own the planning design and delivery of all product development roadmap items for the vertical. 
• Establish a culture of engineering excellence with focus on delivering high quality products to production. 
• Ensure security and operational posture of the platform meets the highest standards. 
• Hire top engineering leaders and talent provide mentoring coaching and guidance to your staff. 
• Drive developer productivity through adoption of innovative technologies and tools and engineering fundamentals & best practices. 
• Establishing a culture that values ownership accountability and creates an environment that enables innovation and continuous improvement. 

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:
12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 10 years of experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 8 years of work experience with a PhD


Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelors or Masters with a STEM major (Science Technology Engineering or Math).
15 years relevant work experience 10 years of technical leadership experience and 10 years of people management experience.
15 or more years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD PhD)
Experience in leading large global software engineering technology teams of 100 across multiple time zones and cultures.
Experience in design architecture and engineering of highly available secure resilient and scalable systems.
Experience in implementing cloud-native architectures and design patterns.
Excellent knowledge of core engineering best practices and the ability to implement these across the team.
Strong knowledge of SDLC principles and practices.
Experience working in an Agile based product development setup and matrixed organizations.
Demonstrated experience in change management concerning the adoption of modern & innovative technologies.
Experience in crafting a collaborative and innovative work culture that encourages risk-taking and fosters excellence.
An ability to combine analytical reasoning creativity and judgment in handling complex matters with multiple initiatives going on simultaneously.
Demonstrated ability to recruit grow nurture retain and lead high-caliber technical talent.
Excellent verbal written and presentation skills - In particular a demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels internally and externally as needed to support the strategic goals.
Deep Payments industry knowledge highly desired.

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 235700.00 to 368100.00 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 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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time