Director of Software Engineering - Payments & Platform Engineering

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

As a Director in Payments and Platform technology team you will pave the way for our most important asset, our engineers, to deliver amazing features with highest quality. You understand the business imperatives tied to these strategic projects. You provide technology leadership and are the technical expert on strategic projects, drive the release strategy and guide the delivery of strategic projects aligned to business strategy on innovative payment acceptance & integrated commerce management. You maintain awareness of dependencies between projects and delivery vision, while ensuring engineering excellence to the five nines. You build the strategy for your teams to architect, design and deliver the next wave of enterprise FinTech innovation.

Essential Functions:

We expect our Director to do much more than just managing multiple teams

• Help our client to achieve their real goals by understanding the requirements and how it would help them in their business.
• Proven ability to define needs, develop plans, coordinate resources and implement action plans.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously & to resolve scheduling & other conflicts in order to meet all deadlines.
• Experience with a variety of development methodologies and mature understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of each. Solid experience with Agile methods is a plus.
• Superior verbal, written & interpersonal communication skills with both technical & non-technical audiences.
• Experience in coaching engineers both on technical and career development
• Excellent team player, with strong collaboration skills and ability to influence cross-functional team for results
• Focus on building a collaborative team environment
• Knowledge Container and Java-J2EE technologies

Most important qualities for the candidate are:

• Leadership: Proven track record of responsibilities as a technical lead.

• Management: An efficient manager who handling multiple reports and teams

• Mentor: A guide who can coach and mentor team members.

• Curiosity:  A desire to seek clarity of requirements and why tasks are done a certain way

• Creativity: The ability to take a list of needs and insights and come up with other innovative ideas.

• Strategic focus: Skill to understand big picture and stay focused on task to achieve goals

• Attention to detail: The capability to perform any research systematically and accurately

• Strong work ethic:  The innate drive to do work extremely well

• Enthusiasm: A passion to understand people and deliver better products and services to them

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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience
• Experience in commercial software development on Unix/Linux environment.
• Experience in developing and deploying containers.
• Understand the Security requirements and standards, and contemporary trends in Security risks as well as technologies.
• Experience in security domain with authentication, authorization and building secure gateway.
• Experience developing & deploying services in a multi-cloud environment like GCP, Azure & AWS.
• Experience in Java/J2EE technologies, Container and database technologies

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 in C