Director, Software Engineering

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description and Responsibilities

Payments are a very exciting and fast-developing area with a lot of new and innovative ideas coming to market. With strong demand for new solutions in this space, it promises to be an exciting area of innovation for the next 5 to 10 years. VISA is a strong leader in the payment industry and is rapidly transitioning into a technology company with significant investments in this area. 

If you want to be in the exciting payment space, learn fast and make big impacts, VISA Risk and Identity Solutions team is an ideal place for you! 

Risk and Identity Solutions team within VAS (Value added Services) organization is looking for a curious, enthusiastic, empathetic, technical leader to help our engineering team be the best they can be, solve problems, execute on ideas, advocate for the customer, and contribute to a team culture built on trust and mutual respect. As a Director, you will set the vision and strategy for the application development team – ensuring that our solutions are flexible, performant, resilient and provides our customers with the best possible experience. This role is a managerial and hands-on technology role.  

You are a natural, self-motivated and directed leader who inspires your team, embraces teaching (and learning) opportunities, and provides constructive coaching and meaningful, stretching challenges. 

If this sounds exciting, we want to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment and see if this will be a good fit for both of us. 

 

Essential Functions

• Go-getter, problem solver, result oriented, and leads change 

• Possesses product innovation and development mindset, collaborates closely with Product, Technology and Management teams 

• Experienced in managing portfolios and programs of large and medium size 

• Strategic thinker who is adept at managing complex client-vendor relationships and delivering global solutions on time and within budget by building and leading high-performing teams 

• Proficient in analyzing & translating business requirements to technical and architectural requirements, working with cross functional teams 

• Consistently develops very strong, sustainable relationships with team, peers, business partners and executive decision makers 

• Design, code, unit test, document, and implement new solutions as well as existing applications

• Contribute to enhancements and changes to existing B2B applications codebase 

• Develop code that complies with design specifications and meets security best practices 

• Coding must adhere to all standards for security, be easily maintainable, and have high system performance 

• Collaborate with Development & QA staff on individual and team deliverables 

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced organization 

• Create documentation and procedures for deployments and maintenance    

• Identify opportunities for future enhancements and refinements to standards, best practices, and development methodologies 

• Work closely with project team and other groups (e.g. Network, QA, Ops, Engineering) 

• Participate in design and code review sessions as appropriate, to ensure the quality of work delivered by self and teammates are in accordance with development standards 

• Interact with business units to define requirements/modifications and use case to utilize in designing appropriate solutions 

 

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

 

Basic Qualifications:

•10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:

•12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
• 7+ years of experience in leadership role with direct reports
• 5+ years in at least one programming language or technology including, but not limited to Java, JavaScript, etc.…
• 5+ years of experience with source control, build and deployment tools such as Jenkins, Maven, GIT, Ansible
• Proficient in implementing design patterns and hands on knowledge of Spring, SQL, MongoDB or similar
• Experience with web service standards and related patterns (REST, JSON)
• Experience developing large scale, enterprise class distributed system or subsystems that require high availability, low latency, & strong data consistency computing
• Experience implementing solutions for low-latency, distributed services using open standard technologies
• Demonstrate knowledge and experience in software engineering best practices and the ability to influence the team to adopt the practices
• Demonstrate the ability in inspiring, motivating, growing the team to achieve high team engagement, efficiency, and quality
• In-depth understanding of agile principles, demonstrating expertise in running agile teams in an enterprise setting
• Strong communication skills, be able to influence executive teams and other organizations on decisions, and proven collaboration skills with other groups
• Be data driven, understand the need for and applying analytics
• Self-motivated with strong drive for excellence
• Strong leadership qualities and organizational skills as well as the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, particularly a demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels internally and externally 
• Experience working on consumer facing product collaborating with multiple teams that have different development models, release cycles, and developer needs
• Experience developing highly available and scalable, REST based webservices

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.