Associate Solutions Designer Intern - Summer 2026, Highlands Ranch

Company Description

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

We will be accepting applications for this position from February 17th-February 27th, 2026. By applying to this position, your application is automatically considered across multiple subfunctions and teams. Specific assignments will depend on upon your skills sets, interest, location, and team need.

Visa’s Internship Program provides an immersive, 12-week journey where you’ll work on impactful projects that drive Visa’s mission forward. As a Visa intern, you’ll build valuable connections across the organization, sharpen your communication and business acumen, and gain hands-on experience in a dynamic, global environment. 

Throughout the program, you’ll have exclusive access to interactive workshops and learning sessions designed to deepen your expertise, expand your industry knowledge, and elevate your professional skillset. You won’t just be learning, you’ll be contributing, collaborating, and innovating every step of the way. In addition to professional development, you’ll enjoy a variety of intern social events that foster community, connection, and fun throughout the summer. 

The experience culminates in an exciting final presentation, where you’ll showcase your project achievements, share key insights, and present your recommendations to Visa’s leaders and stakeholders. This is your chance to demonstrate your business impact, highlight your personal growth, and align your work with Visa’s vision for the future. 

Associate Solutions Designer Interns will partner with product architects and developers across various Visa teams to brainstorm and architect innovative solutions. Designing a good solution requires an understanding of 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.

Some examples of previous summer intern job duties and projects:

• Empathize with developers and product managers, discuss pros and cons of a proposed solution, and effectively break ties
• Apply knowledge of cloud computing with cloud-native, virtualized, and physical workloads, as well as their storage and networking options
• Assess project requirements and employ appropriate technologies
• Agentify/automate processes using REST APIs, GenAI, Temporal, and Jira

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, CIS/MIS, Cybersecurity, or a related field, graduating December 2026-August 2027.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep experience with Python coding and infrastructure automation
• Familiarity with GenAI, LLMs, Prompt Engineering, LangChain, and/or Temporal
• Experience with container-based development, deployments, and workloads
• Understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts, virtualization, SQL/NoSQL database architectures
• Knowledge of role-based access, identity and access management framework; high-availability & high-volume processing environments; load balancers, global traffic management, firewalls, and networking concepts
• Experience working with public, private, and hybrid clouds; knowledge of cloud automation, DevOps and CI/CD tools
• Understanding of Architecture Constructs (Architecture & Design patterns, protocols SOAP, REST, etc.), as well as 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
• Desire and ability to work with global cross-functional teams leveraging efficient processes via automation
• Ability to articulate a deep understanding of ben