Sr. Director, Software Engineering

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 are seeking a candidate with demonstrated ability to lead by influence with a record of successfully delivering modern, large-scale, complex service and products. This is accomplished by leading multiple large diverse technical teams at all levels and closely collaborate with program and product teams. 

Your mission is to provide hands-on leadership to multiple development teams and building a world-class team of engineers. The focus is on defining, executing, and delivering functional and non-functional features at scale quickly and promoting a diverse culture of cross-functional collaboration and engineering excellence. Be an idea leader and bring industry best practices to benefit the team and the wider organization. The ability to synthesize and simplify complex needs including business capabilities and operational efficiencies while conforming to regulatory, security and privacy requirements is required.

As a Senior Director in Acceptance Solutions you will pave the way for our most important asset, our engineering teams , to deliver amazing features with highest quality. You will be working with colleagues, who will help, support and challenge you every day.

You will actively collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, Program Management, Development, and Platform Architecture teams to guide and provide leadership  If this sounds exciting, we would love to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment.

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

12+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience

Proven experience managing software development teams delivering highly available enterprise level, distributed applications utilizing technologies such as Java, Golang, Spark, etc.

Outstanding verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and interaction skills, along with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise way.

Proven track record of coordinating multiple product and technical teams by removing roadblocks and solving complex problems collaboratively.

Strong at technical goal setting for a project with actionable success metrics.

Experience with measuring a service from user experience perspective, setting, and tracking to SLAs and KPIs.

Ability to represent technical and business issues and solutions to multiple levels internally and externally to support organizational plans.

Ability to work in a complex organization to determine business and customer needs, providing the best solution to meet those needs.

Experience with Agile methodologies and software development lifecycle principles.

Ability to manage multiple competing top priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Expertise with the Java 8 platform or higher, Spring, Spring boot, caching, streaming pipelines.

Experience building microservices with HTTP, REST, JSON and XML.

Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Payment industry experience is a plus.

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 computers.