Sr. Director, Software Engineering (GenAICloud)

The Value-Added Services Product Development (VAS PD) team drives the diversification of Visa revenue with products that differentiate Visa network and deliver valuable solutions across other networks. Risk and Security Solutions (RAS) team in VAS focuses on innovative AI-driven risk and fraud management solutions for issuers merchants and fintechs.

The Sr. Director of Engineering in the RAS Product Development team will be responsible for leading the technology strategy solution and execution of initiatives that support our business objectives. This role focuses on Integrated Risk Platform that supports all Risk and Security products such as Visa Enhanced Authentication Decision Manager Visa Risk Manager Identity etc.

Essential Functions :

• Define and drive the enterprise engineering and cloud strategy aligning with business and product goals to accelerate innovation scalability and time to market.
• Lead adoption of Generative AI and Agentic AI across the SDLC delivering up to 10X developer productivity and enabling differentiated AIpowered business solutions.
• Provide senior technology leadership for cloudfirst platforms (AWS Azure GCP) ensuring systems are secure resilient costoptimized and engineered for 5 9s availability.
• Establish and enforce modern engineering excellence including CI/CD automation DevOps testing observability and architectural standards to ensure reliability and quality at scale.
• Lead mentor and grow highperforming multidisciplinary engineering teams fostering a culture of ownership inclusion accountability and continuous learning.
• Partner closely with Product Security Privacy and Governance leaders to define joint product and technology roadmaps and deliver compliant scalable solutions that meet nonfunctional requirements.
• Drive delivery of secure interoperable and fitforpurpose platforms and products balancing speed with longterm architectural integrity and operational excellence.
• Communicate technical vision and execution plans clearly to executives and stakeholders influencing decisionmaking and aligning engineering outcomes with business KPIs and leadership principles.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:

• 12 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 9 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD OR 15 years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelors Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD or MD) PhD with 9 years of experience
• 15 years of progressive engineering experience including 12 years leading largescale product development and delivery with a Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
• Proven expertise across modern technology stacks including Java/J2EE GoLang Python Spring Boot React RESTful APIs SQL/NoSQL databases Kubernetes Kafka and test automation frameworks.
• Demonstrated success driving measurable improvements in engineering productivity delivery velocity system performance reliability and operational excellence through datadriven leadership.
• Deep experience with cloudnative and DevSecOps architectures leveraging AWS and/or Azure containerization (Docker) Kubernetes serverless computing and automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Advanced knowledge of Generative AI and Agentic AI including handson experience integrating LLMs vector databases RAG prompt engineering and AI governance into production platforms to achieve orderofmagnitude productivity gains.
• Strong foundation in securebydesign architecture including zerotrust defenseindepth and compliancedriven engineering within highly regulated missioncritical environments.
• Recognized architectural leadership with experience designing and operating globally distributed activeactive multiregion platforms requiring high availability resilience and scalability.
• Exceptional leadership communication and strategic thinking skills with the ability to influence at all levels mentor senior leaders and articulate complex technical strategies to executive and business stakeholders.

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 this position is 206100.00 to 360800.00 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