Lead Systems Architect, Digital Partnerships Technology

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.

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Job Description

Position Description

The position is responsible for providing technical and advisory support, solutioning and oversight to strategic partnerships, alliances, programmatic fintech and strategic partners globally and locally within regions. Digital Partnerships Technology organization works closely with Visa’s Product Digital Partnerships team that leads commercial engagements with FinTechs, BigTechs and Strategic Enablers. Senior Solutions Architect, Digital Partnerships Technology Lead role requires expertise in identifying, building, and supporting technical solutions, design and architecture for new and existing clients and partners integrating with Visa’s offerings and capabilities, co-innovate with partners to build new product propositions through close collaboration with Visa’s core product and technology teams manage process and programs needed to bring them to fruition. Work with cross functional technology and product teams to ensure partner implementations are on track and delivering against the plan.

Responsibilities

• You will define technical solutions and architecture to unlock new use cases or enable existing capabilities for Visa’s BigTech, Strategic Enablers and FinTech partners through clear and articulate diagrams and artifacts such as logical architectures, deployment topologies, sequence diagrams, functional decompositions, and API swagger specs, among others.
• You will build architectures that are inherently secure, robust, scalable, reliable, extensible, interoperable and composable.
• You will ensure that project teams follow a common set of principles and patterns and utilize approved set of technology frameworks, libraries, and API standards.
• You will apply architecture best practices to increase execution velocity, specifically as it relates to leveraging existing Visa shared assets.

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

• 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
• Experience with Java, Generative AI and/or Cloud highly preferred
• Degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering with MBA or other advanced degree preferred
• Demonstrated track record of planning, managing, and delivering complex technology programs with BigTech, Strategic Enablers and FinTechs
• Possess a blend of analytical capability, strategic thinking, and emotional intelligence and able to dive deep on all areas of technology and business to deliver creative solutions to unstructured problems
• Hands-on, entrepreneurial, and agilest, while also able to navigate a globally matrixed environment
• Execution abilities, adept at keeping multiple projects moving forward effectively, and working around obstacles
• Proven ability to partner, communicate and manage/navigate through multiple disciplines and organizational groups
• Ability to work within a complex and often ambiguous environment, and to influence senior management and other relevant parties

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 computer