Vice President, Issuing Solutions Platform Development

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 Issuing Solutions Product Development team drives the diversification of our revenue with products that differentiate our network and deliver valuable solutions across other rails. The team’s strategy is to increase the value driven through developing solutions that address complex and emerging issuing needs for banks, fintech and partners. Our mission is to drive the future of payments by enabling innovation around payment credentials, and processing, helping our clients navigate digital commerce complexities and address an increasing need for flexibility and agility.  

The goal of the Visa Issuing Platform is to be the world’s most open payment platform by delivering market leading, globally relevant, omnichannel issuing componentry through open, composable, modular APIs delivered with Visa-grade resilience, security, maintenance, and scale.

The VP will lead product development for Visa’s Issuing Solutions Platform Development, aligning with key stakeholders across technology, global product and market facing teams.  Our platform is a collection of client and payment’s ecosystem facing assets performing processing, settlement, data services, and issuing capabilities, connecting our issuing clients into the payments landscape through APIs, tools, mobile applications, and SDKs. Our team is organized to deliver value using a Scaled Agile Solution Train structure, supporting several Agile Release Trains across multiple value streams. This is a global role supporting all regions, with the largest team concentration located in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.

This role will report to the Senior Vice President, Issuing Solutions Product Development, and will be responsible for working with the executive team as well as the commercial product development business partners to aggressively expand Visa’s product portfolios. This is a senior and transformational role, and one of autonomy and next generation thinking.

Responsibilities:

• Directly responsible for product development for the Visa Issuing Solutions Platform.

• Lead cross-functional global team of engineering leaders, engineers, and solution architects, to define technology project architecture, develop the platform in support of our product roadmap, and play a leadership role providing guidance to stakeholders.

• Provide technical vision and a roadmap to align with the corporate strategy and the technical strategy.

• Provide technical thought leadership and management in building code that is secure and passing all Visa cyber security requirements.

• Provide technical thought leadership and management in building code that has an always-on architecture and uptime/availability characteristics in excess of 99.999%.

• Work closely with product management and the regions to define the right feature set and technical roadmap to support the company vision and strategy across our ecosystem.

• Work closely operations & infrastructure to ensure a seamless model of coding, deployment and operations of the code in production.

• Execute technology strategies and key priorities to meet business objectives and strategies with key stakeholders across technology, global product and market facing teams. 

• Work directly and closely with cross functional stakeholders to develop multi-year strategic outlook plans, instrumental in defining solutions for large/complex opportunities/challenges.

• Support a globally distributed team of 200+ employees.

• Manage and enhance our global organizational model and our global workforce in NA, Europe and Asia.

• Maintain operational and fiscal discipline by effectively managing the scope/schedule and budget.

• Lead agile product development teams working with clients (issuers, fintechs, payment networks, processors and service providers) to commercialize new or existing underutilized products to address broader use cases.

• Define, coordinate customer change management and support strategies.

• Strong Intellect. Bright individual, with ability to combine analytical reasoning, creativity and judgment. Quick study, able to handle