Sr. Manager, 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.

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Job Description

The VAS Architecture & Platform organization is leading Visa's transformation in architecting, developing, and deploying Value Add Services across our business solution verticals & commercial platforms. A key responsibility of the VAS Innovations Team is focused on delivering innovations leveraging the big-3 public cloud vendors (GCP, AWS & Azure). These initiatives include creating service & tools, delivering proof of concepts (POC) and enabling the migration of existing workloads to public cloud. In addition, delivering innovations that leverage the latest cutting-edge technologies such as GenAI & AI/ML are core to the team’s DNA.

The VAS Innovations team is seeking a dynamic Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead a team in tackling intricate global challenges, playing a pivotal role in Visa's cross-functional efforts to innovate, design, and deliver software solutions to a worldwide customer base. This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of digital transactions, contribute to cutting-edge payment technology, and facilitate Visa's migration to public cloud platforms.

Essential Functions

• Manage a team of top performing engineers, setting OKRs, conducting performance reviews, motivating, and inspiring the team to build products that delight our customers.
• Defining project scope, timelines, and resource allocation.
• Providing guidance to the team and ensuring they adhere to development standards.
• Ensuring adherence to software development methodologies and best practices.
• Identifying training and skill development needs for the team.

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:

•  8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree  in Engineering or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10 or more years of relevant work experience with a bachelor’s degree or 8 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• 3 - 5 years management experience in all activities of a software development team
• Setting goals, conducting performance evaluations & career development discussions
• Mentor & coach a development team to design, code & debug services & applications.
• Possess excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Experience with migrations from On-Prem systems to Public, Hybrid and Multi-Cloud
• GenAI experience, Copilot, ChatGPT, LLMs, RAG model and Prompt experience
• Security Expertise, security best practices, compliance & data protection Kubernetes & Container skills, working both on-prem and in public cloud (GKE)
• Strong Communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams & stakeholders.
• Payment Domain Knowledge of Acquiring, Issuing and Card Networks
• Certification in public cloud in either a Engineer/Architect on GCP, AWS and/or Azure

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 computers.

Visa is an EEO Employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.  Visa will also consider for employmen