As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company's dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device, and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.

At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.

You're an Individual. We're the team for you. Together, let's transform the way the world pays.

Open VisaNet, is the Next Generation VisaNet, will push the envelope of building highly scalable, secure, cost effective and distributed application on commodity hardware using best-in-class technology components. Open VisaNet is one of Visa's Key initiative that will help Visa support in-country processing solutions and provide Visa an opportunity to move away from Proprietary Mainframe type systems. It is built as a modern distributed architecture based on micro services with goals of five 9’s availability, fault tolerance, horizontal scalability and real time latency for largest scale transaction processing. Open VisaNet leverages state of the art Open Software technologies to achieve these goals on commodity hardware, such as Go, Scala, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Docker, Kubernetes, Aerospike, Elasticsearch etc. and involves collaboration with exceptional group of software engineers, systems performance engineers, security specialists, DevOps engineers, payment experts, infrastructure and solution architects.

Visa is looking for a talented and versatile Engineering Director, who will help build Open VisaNet, Visa's Next generation payment processing platform developed on Open Systems, that would fuel growth in electronic payments globally and drive financial inclusion in many parts of the world.  Senior Engineering Managers with significant experience in building cloud based platforms either in public or private cloud domains are preferred. We are looking for candidates who have strong technology foundation and previous hands on design/coding skills for this role. You must have background in building and managing highly engaged teams. You will be leading a world class software engineering team and will be responsible for designing, architecting and building state-of-the art highly distributed system software. 

Selected candidate will be leading one of the most talented team of software engineers in Visa building its core payment engine and application delivery platforms. You will also have an opportunity to make a large impact across Visa as we re-architect its core payment platform. We build and support a variety of technologies that span multiple continents, deploying code dozens of times each day.

• Bachelors or Master's Degree, preferably in Computer Science with 12+ years of experience
• 2+ years of people management experience working in agile software development
• Strong software product development background with a passion for building cloud based applications with high levels of reliability, availability and security
• Must be high impact individual with a technology background and the ability to engage in high bandwidth conversations with executives.
• Experience working in fintech software development highly preferred and prior knowledge of  Credit Card Industry a plus
• Dynamic leader who has directly managed team of highly competent developers in fast paced work environment
• Very good understanding of Enterprise Application Lifecycle Management needs.
• Capable of forming and advocating independent viewpoint. Demonstrate strong skills influencing, negotiating and communicating.
• Significant experience building enterprise class applications using Java/J2EE technologies and/or GoLang stack
• Prior experience must include leadership role for mission-critical system applications supporting high transaction systems.
• Prior experience in adopting, deploying and scaling cloud technologies for large systems.
• Demonstrable experience supporting and enabling PAAS like approach to application infrastructure that support high availability/resiliency. Must have demonstrated experience in building systems software preferably in domains that require high through-put and low-latency.
• Experience in technologies such as NoSQL
• Experience with distributed computing, microservices and high volume transaction processing is a big plus
• Experience with service orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Nomad etc. is a plus
• Strong understanding of architecture patterns and operational characteristics of highly available and scalable applications.   
• Excellent knowledge of core engineering best practices and passion to implement these across teams. 
• Strong leadership qualities and organizational skills as well as the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities. 
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills. In particular, a demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels internally and externally. 
• Team player and passionate for building a culture of innovation and flawless execution. Technical hands on skills, ideally in multiple technology stacks for backend concurrent engineering, system software development and deployment on diverse platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, recruit, grow and retain high-caliber talent at scale. Experienced organizing, running, supporting, and growing large technology organization.

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