Director Software 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

Visa Product Development is seeking a Director of Product Development to lead a world-class team of software and systems engineers to deliver client-ready solutions by building the next generation of systems, automation and tools to support overall productivity and developer efficiencies.  You will provide strategy, vision and technical leadership to the product development organizations across Visa Risk & Identity to ensure engineering teams are building products that use a foundational approach that prioritizes high availability and security.

You will be responsible for hiring and developing top engineering talent, keeping the team highly engaged and motivated while delivering exceptional results. Your ability to work across functions and teams will allow you to ensure alignment of priorities and goals, drive results and foster the right culture and environment to achieve Engineering Excellence and Innovation. You will be responsible for working with product development, quality engineering, security engineering, enterprise operations and other internal and external technology partners to deliver products for business integration & enablement.

Essential Functions:

• Provide leadership and technical guidance within Visa Technology Compliance Policies on tools development, automation, system stability, availability and overall integration strategies and plans.

• Develop technology strategies and road maps to meet business objectives by collaborating with Development, Operations, and other Visa organizations.

• Own system technical design discussions with global teams to ensure business and technical requirements are understood and properly documented and implemented, including understanding customer scenarios.

• Keep executive management informed of progress and any obstacles of development, Releases and risks to Visa and to its customers.

• Apply creative thinking/approaches to determine the best solutions that further support developer efficiency.

• Partner with product development and application architecture teams to drive the evolution of availability, across VMs and Containers.

• Establish clear, aligned goals and direction, provide candid feedback and coaching to maximize team competency, support career management and development of direct reports.

• Achieve Operational/Engineering Excellence: availability, stability, efficiency, with an availability first mindset directed towards all product development efforts.

Required Key Competencies:

• Technical and Functional Excellence: The candidate will have demonstrated aptitude/capability to manage within a framework of operational and engineering excellence along with direct experience leading a global organization. The candidate will possess a deep technical understanding of current and future trends within the payments industry and be capable of developing and executing a strategy that leverages new technology to support system stability, availability, and product evolution and business performance. S/he is an expert in designing, developing, and deploying scalable software solutions to deliver exceptional quality to clients. 

• Thought Leadership: The successful individual brings a mindset that embraces innovation and questions conventional wisdom. S/he will be a recognized domain expert in key areas such as resiliency technology, system availability and tools development. In addition, s/he is an expert with regards to emerging technology trends, innovation, and developments related to mobile applications and digital technologies.  S/he understands quality success measures.

• Team Leadership: The candidate will recruit, lead, mentor, and develop an excellent engineering technology team and provide opportunities for growth to ensure continuity of the departments leadership. The ide