Senior 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

As a Senior Director in the Client Integration and Engineering Excellence (CI&EE) team, you will manage the delivery of multiple, key initiatives within the Value-Added Services (VAS) organization. This position will have responsibility of day-to-day management of a team of delivery leaders and lead technical engineers.  Located in Foster City, CA , this position will report to the VP of Client Integration and Engineering Excellence.

 

As a key member of the leadership team, the candidate should be comfortable with driving technical ideas and communicating clearly with technical as well as non-technical audiences. In this role, you will have the ability to grow and develop a best-in-class engineering team, while playing an important part in shaping our strategy and future direction.

 

Specific Responsibilities include:

• Build, and maintain a high-performing engineering organization focused on delivering efficiently with high standards of quality, fostering innovation, leveraging new technologies while upholding a strong customer centered mindset.
• Foster partnerships with various Product Development and Engineering leaders across VAS org to help deliver organizational priorities successfully.
• Apply creative thinking/approach to determine technical solutions while working with architecture and the technical leads that further business goals and align with our technology strategy.
• Lead your teams in developing best in class solutions supported by stringent operational requirements around performance, reliability, security, scale and cost.
• Provide resource plans, budget tracking and forecasting. Manage the team to achieve target scope, schedule, and cost objectives.
• Build a strong culture focused on positive outcomes, while maintaining a high level of engagement from the team.
• Responsible for overall operational quality, and working with our partners in support, cyber, operations to ensure client success remains front and center.

 

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.

Visa does not support immigration for this role.

Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.

 

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.
• 14+ years of experience in technology related roles. 5+ years as a people
leader, leading product development and/or operations activities would be a
plus.
• Proven experience leading or developing solutions for horizontal teams.
• Experience with various Software Development technologies, Mobile solution,
Traditional/Non-Traditional Database Platforms, APIs, Caching and other
Integration technologies.
• Foundational understanding of using Software to Integrate systems.
• Well versed in managing in an Agile delivery setting.
• Familiarity with Scaled Agile with direct experience/certification a preferred.
• Sound understanding of building operational excellence into technology
solutions.
• Excellent communication skills, experienced in working with executives.
• Leading geographically distributed engineering teams. Passionate about
people development through coaching and mentoring.
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