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 #LifeAtVisa

Job Description

We are seeking a leader who has a track record of successfully building & delivering modern, large-scale, complex services and products. These outcomes would have been accomplished by leading large, diverse & geographically distributed technical teams and by closely collaborating with program and product teams.

Your mission is to provide hands-on leadership to multiple development teams and build 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 broader 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 Ecosystem & Operational Risk Product Development, 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 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 three days a week with a general guidepost of being in the office 50+% of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 9 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD, 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
• 15+ years of experience leading product development and delivery using multiple technologies - Java/J2EE, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Angular, JavaScript, MySQL, Maven, design patterns, test automation frameworks
• Experience leading development on Hadoop, using Spark and Scala based large data processing and transaction systems
• Good understanding and experience leading AI/ML initiatives
• Experience leading design and development of mission-critical, secure, reliable systems
• Experience leading design & development of data-centric solutions. Extensive knowledge and experience in modern data ingestion frameworks
• Strong experience with agile methodologies & software development lifecycle principles
• Excel in partnering with Product leaders and technical product managers on requirements workshops, helping define joint product/technology roadmaps & driving prioritization
• Experience driving continuous improvements to processes/tools for better developer efficiency and productivity
• Demonstrated ability to drive measurable improvements across engineering, delivery and performance metrics.
• Demonstrated success in leading high performing, multi-disciplinary and geographically distributed engineering teams. Demonstrated ability to hire, develop and retain high-caliber talent
• Excellent problem solving and analytics skills. Capable of forming and advocating an independent viewpoint
• Must demonstrate longer-term strategic thinking and staying abreast with latest technologies to assess what’s possible technically
• Strong collaboration and effective communication, with focus on win-win outcomes
• Payments 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.