VP - Value Added Services Engineering 360

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

The Acceptance Solutions Product Development team are the engineers responsible for a portfolio of products that drive diversification of Visa revenue, differentiate our network, and deliver value-added solutions across other rails. This is part of a strategy to increase total merchant value by developing solutions that address complex and emerging needs of both merchants and acquirers. Our mission is to drive the future of payment acceptance, helping our clients navigate digital commerce complexities and address an increasing need for flexibility and agility. 

The goal of the Visa Acceptance Platform is to be the world’s most open payment platform by delivering market leading, globally relevant, omnichannel acceptance componentry through open, composable, modular APIs delivered with Visa-grade resilience, security, maintenance, and scale. 

Role Overview: As the Vice President for Acceptance Solutions Engineering 360, you will be a key leader in our product development organization chartered to infuse next generation thinking into engineering practices, anticipate and leverage emerging technologies for strategic advantage, drive innovation initiatives and research projects to maintain a cutting-edge technology ecosystem, and lead the development of autonomous systems, leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance operational efficiency and reliability.

The five critical areas of this role are:

• Architecture Leadership
  • Provide visionary leadership in defining and implementing scalable and cloud native technology architectures.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment between business goals and technical solutions.

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
  • Drive a culture of reliability and resiliency across our technology stack.
  • Implement best practices in SRE to enhance system performance, availability, and incident response.

• Continuous Integration & Release Optimization
  • Implement automation and continuous integration practices to streamline the release pipeline.
  • Oversee and optimize the release management process to ensure the timely and high-quality delivery of software products.

• Portfolio Strategy & Operations
  • Develop and execute a strategic vision for the engineering portfolio in alignment with business objectives.
  • Optimize resource allocation and ensure operational efficiency across the engineering organization.

• Portfolio Orchestration
  • Lead the orchestration of complex engineering portfolios, ensuring efficient execution and delivery.
  • Foster collaboration between product teams, architects, and engineers to drive successful outcomes.

This role will span all Acceptance Solutions product families, Payer Interface, Payment Processing, Post Purchase, ANET, and Visa Acceptance Platform reporting to the Senior Vice President, Product Development, Technology Acceptance Solutions. This is a highly visible role including direct engagement with Visa’s executive team.

Essential Functions:

• Leading a multi-functional team of senior engineers, solution architects, and technical project managers to define technology architecture, technology strategy, and providing guidance to collaborators.
• Leading agile product development teams working with clients (issuers, acquirers, processors, and service providers) to commercialize new or existing underutilized products to address broader use cases.
• Providing technical vision and a roadmap, collaborating with product management and the regions, to align with corporate & technology strategy.
• Providing technical thought leadership and management in