Director of Data Engineering

Visas Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the worlds 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 youll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows business and data solutions cyber security and B2C platforms.     

The Opportunity: 

You will be part of the Value Added Services Digital Marketing & Engagement organization and will provide technical leadership and oversight to software architects and engineers while partnering with your product partners on large and complex projects for Customer Engagement Loyalty and Marketing domains.

If youre passionate about engineering excellence building highperforming teams and solving complex distributed systems challenges this is an opportunity to make a meaningful global impact.

What You Will Do:

Leadership & Management:

• Hire retain and develop highperforming diverse engineering teams focused on realtime missioncritical transaction systems.
• Build a culture of technical excellence accountability ownership and continuous learning.
• Invest in the career development of engineers and technical leads through mentorship coaching and structured growth plans.
• Lead with a clientfirst mentality ensuring platform stability and performance for internal and external customers.

Technical Leadership:

• Provide strong technical direction across distributed systems microservices highthroughput transaction processing and faulttolerant architectures.
• Drive architectural decisions for core components of the Loyalty platform ensuring ultralow latency high availability and global scalability.
• Establish engineering best practices through handson technical leadership code reviews and architectural deep dives.
• Ensure engineering excellence around quality security observability performance engineering and resiliency.
• Oversee adoption of modern engineering patterns including eventdriven systems asynchronous processing cloudnative development and APIfirst design.
• Champion modern engineering practices including the use of generative AI to improve development productivity.
• Foster a culture of experimentation innovation and continuous improvement within the engineering organization.

Collaboration & Strategy:

• Partner with Product Platform Infrastructure Cybersecurity and Architecture teams to define and deliver endtoend platform capabilities.
• Drive crossteam alignment on technical decisions execution priorities and longterm architectural strategy.
• Support strategic initiatives to evolve the Loyalty platform including global expansion new transaction types and emerging integrations.
• Communicate complex technical concepts and risks to senior leadership in a clear businessaligned manner.
• Collaborate with Loyalty product teams to define platform vision capability roadmaps and integration strategies.

Development & Innovation:

• Deliver products with complex technical interdependencies by collaborating with geographically dispersed teams.
• Develop architectures that are inherently secure robust scalable modular API-centric and global.
• Optimize the use of Visas Platforms & Solutions.
• Make a positive impact on Visas Loyalty and Marketing team fostering innovation and exploring new technologies such as GenAI

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

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications

• 10 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD OR 13 years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating generative AI into engineering workflows (OpenAI APIs GitHub Copilot etc.) to improve productivity and code quality.
• Champion secure SDLC and quality engineering practices.
• Improve engineering efficiency through automation observability DevOps tooling and standardized development frameworks.
• Strong background building and scaling distributed systems or cloud-native platforms.
• Hands-on expertise in Java/Spring microservices APIs (REST) and modern frontend frameworks (TypeScript Angular).

The Skills You Bring:

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale
• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries hacking beyond traditional solutions
• Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g. Java C# C)
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular React Kubernetes Docker Generative AI Distributed System etc.
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product Test Dev-ops and Agile/Scrum teams
• Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical topics for diverse audiences.

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