Sr. Associate Solutions Designer

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

Sr. Associate Solutions Designer will partner with product architects and developers of various Visa teams to brainstorm and architect innovative solutions. Designing a good solution will require understanding respective Visa products and either mapping out or tailoring new solutions. A well architected solution will consider security, scalability, fault-tolerance, agility, costs, space, power, and extensibility. Successful candidate will be able to empathize with developers and product managers, discuss pros and cons of a proposed solution, and be able to break ties. This role requires a good knowledge of cloud computing with cloud-native, virtualized, and physical workloads along with their storage and networking options. Successful candidate will assess the project requirements and be able to employ appropriate technology.

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
• 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or other engineering or technical degree.
• 5+ years of work experience in a compute, storage, network, middleware, or database engineering or architecture role
• Understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts, virtualization, SQL/NoSQL database architectures
• Understanding of role-based access, identity and access management framework
• Understanding of high availability & high-volume processing environments
• Understanding of load balancers, global traffic management, firewalls and networking concepts
• Desire and ability to work with global cross-functional teams leveraging efficient processes via automation
• Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor
• Superior communication (written/verbal), presentation, and facilitation skills
• Experience with Database, Messaging and Big Data technologies


Preferred Qualifications
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or other engineering or technical degree
• Experience working with public, private and hybrid clouds
• Understanding of cloud automation, DevOps and CI/CD tools
• Understanding of Architecture Constructs - (Architecture & Design patterns, protocols SOAP, REST, etc.), Development Methodologies (Agile, Waterfall)
• Experience with IT Architecture (high-level & detail-level design, blueprinting, design patterns) and understanding of Project Management Tools (Rally, Jira, etc.)
• Experienced with highly available enterprise level multi-tier applications and services utilizing technologies including relational databases, Microservices, Kubernetes, Kafka and distributed NoSQL databases
• Understanding of self-healing/immutable microservice based architectures, clustering models, and networking technologies
• Ability to articulate your deep understanding of benefits/drawbacks of different solutions
• Analytical and problem-solving skill and curiosity to tackle any complex or new problem
• Ability to influence development teams and senior stakeholders to gain support for delivering solutions against a standardized methodology

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