Vice President of Architecture, Commercial and Money Movement Services

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

Visa is seeking a seasoned and highly motivated leader to manage the Architecture function within the Commercial and Money Movement Solutions Product Development (CMS PD) group. CMS is a strategic growth pillar for Visa that will deliver significant revenue for the company over the coming years. The CMS PD team within Visa Technology is chartered with building the platforms and product capabilities that will directly enable the growth aspirations of our CMS business.

This leader will be an integral member of the CMS PD leadership team reporting into the SVP, CMS PD.  This new role will provide architectural leadership to all CMS PD product development activity, lead the definition of target states and provide leadership towards adoption of architectural best practices/patterns across a very large development team. The role will partner closely with senior business and product leaders to define multi-year strategic plans, lead the definition of solutions for large new opportunities and drive integration and platform convergence activities for acquired entities.

Key Responsibilities

• Define technology strategy and vision for CMS PD in alignment with the broader CMS and Visa business strategy and objectives
• Partner with CMS business and product leaders to develop multi-year strategic outlook plans and annual operating plans
• Lead a global team of senior technologists that provide expertise on all aspects of architecture - domain, platform and cybersecurity 
• Drive adoption of architectural best practices/patterns and governance models that ensure top quality product development, Utilize prior experience and knowledge to ensure platforms are architected to deliver the highest level of availability, scalability and security characteristics
• Lead effort to build out of target state architectures for existing product lines and platforms, bring proactive focus on evolving the stack to target in a phased approach that is aligned with our business objectives
• Lead the effort to harmonize frameworks/tools that developers use and drive the build out of common platform components
• Drive acquired entity integration and product convergence efforts - Role will play an important part in identifying opportunities, defining solutions and working with very senior stakeholders on decisioning and execution
• On large, new opportunities, partner directly with strategic clients on solution definition and delivery

• Demonstrate thought leadership and influence through presentations, paper publications and knowledge sharing across Visa.

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 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 8 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:
• 15 or more years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, PhD)
• Bachelors or Masters with a Computer Science or STEM major (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math)
• 15+ years of experience in leading technology architecture and product development teams/efforts
• Successful track record of leading architecture teams focused on large product development portfolios that represent broad strategic objectives for the business
• Deep experience in leading solution architecture for complex new initiatives and challenging opportunities – partnering directly with very senior business stakeholders/clients to deliver significant value and impact
• Deep experience in building service oriented architectures and platforms, Demonstrated experience in building systems software in domains that require high throughput and low-latency
• Strong understanding of architecture patterns and operational characteristics of highly secure, available and scalable applications
• Excellent k