Job Description

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.



Join the Ecosystem and Organizational Risk (EOR) team as a Senior Director for our Product Development group. We\'re a Value Added Services Technology function dedicated to safeguarding the security and integrity of the payment ecosystem. This role is pivotal in shaping the strategy, design, and deployment of risk programs and adapting them as the payment and threat landscapes evolve. The position requires a collaborative leader, who can work with internal and external stakeholders to deliver these programs and ensure they align with Visa\'s business strategy and its growth.

Be a part of our mission to shape the future of secure payments.

Essential Functions

• Drive the design, implementation and deployment of secure, reliable, robust and interoperable products.
• Drive excellence in engineering practices across the SSDLC.
• Partner with Product teams on requirements and prioritization. Influence product strategy and roadmap.
• Lead a multi-disciplinary team of software developers, data engineers, AI & ML experts, test engineers, release engineers.
• Develop and nurture the engineering team by hiring critical talent, driving retention, motivating and mentoring staff, and driving career growth for team members. Build an inclusive team culture, and a culture of ownership and accountability.
• Drive strategic impact for EOR by delivering fit-for-purpose products with an accelerated time to market.
• Ensure strong program management and governance practices for your team.
• Forge strong partnerships with key stakeholders across Technology & Business.
• Role model Visa Leadership Principles (VLPs)

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

• 18+ years of experience with a Bachelor\'s degree with an advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA)
• 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
• 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

Additional Information

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 employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

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