Lead System Architect, AI Governance

About this Team:

AI Governance (AIG) team is part of the Data and AI Platform (DAP) technology organization in Visa. The team’s mission is to provide the AI Governance engineering solution for Visa to achieve centralized AI excellence across Visa. The opportunity will join the effort undergoing building the AI Observatory for Visa. AI Observatory provides an inventory of ML models, oversight for model’s full lifecycle, and governance of all model’s accuracy, transparency, and fairness. We are also uplifting domain-specific models to the unified AI Governance framework and streamline the modeling efforts to a centralized AI excellence across Visa.  

This opportunity is a great opportunity for you to enhance and broaden your skills and explore the next generation technology and be an agent of transformation.  

 As a Lead System Architect in AI Governance technology team, you will have the unique chance to make a direct and meaningful impact by delivering solutions that powers AI Governance systems. You will design, enhance, and build solutions dealing with the next generation AI/ML and GenAI technology and be an agent of transformation. We deliver and support strategic goals and have a lasting impact on our enterprise. We aim to stay ahead of the curve adapting to the advancement of Generative AI and keep our business miles ahead of our competitors. 

Essential Responsibilities: 

• You will leverage sound architectural principles to implement effective and efficient solutions. 

• You will be a lead working with other developers on building applications from scratch to pushing them into production. 

• You will explore and evaluate emerging technologies, prototype, and strategize its adaptation within Visa. 

• You will lead code reviews, and deliver high quality code  

• Support production systems and constantly improve our user experience. 

• Follow established software development guidelines and Visa security standards 

• Build and maintain relationships with the agile team, the user community, architects, and support teams to understand requirements and implement effective 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
• At least 8 years’ team leadership experience as a team lead or architect.
• Experience in software development, big data, and machine-learning processes.
• Experience leading a development team in the design, development, coding, testing, and debugging of applications.
• Experienced with high-performance imperative languages such as Python and Java, and big data distributed computing platforms such as Hadoop, Spark, Dask, or Ray.
• Experience in software build and release pipeline using CI/CD tools, containerization, Unix, and shell scripting.
• Experience planning and documenting technical specifications for features and system design.
• Experience establishing new standards and best practices to monitor, test, automate, and maintain IT components or system.
• Experience monitoring data management solutions and identifying optimization opportunities.

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 163,800.00 to 237,550.00 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 location. In 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.