Lead Solutions Architect

  • Full-time
  • Job Family Group: Technology and Operations

Company Description

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the evolving visa/travel restrictions in place, we are currently only able to extend offers to candidates who are currently in Singapore with the right to work in Singapore. We are keeping the situation under close review and will adjust accordingly should the restrictive measures be lifted.

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.

Job Description

Imagine working on solutions that impact Visa’s branding and help to drive preference among cardholders, merchants, financial institutions, and other stakeholders. The Visa Digital Marketing Experience Team is looking for a Lead Solutions Architect who will be responsible for designing, developing, and supporting web and mobile applications/services for public users worldwide. These applications have to provide good user experience around the clock for a high volume of public users to fulfil requirements of diverse markets and languages. This is a great opportunity to make a huge impact to Visa’s brand and customer loyalty, as well as work on leading open standards technologies and services.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership to junior engineers by sharing expertise and reviewing codes
  • Provide solution architecture and design for projects with adherence to standards, risk management and security policies
  • Contribute to development of product roadmaps
  • Develop and support application releases in a DevOps setup using Agile methodology
  • Set up automated build and deployment with Git, Maven, Jenkins for CI/CD pipeline
  • Quality assurance and test automation with SonarQube
  • Security review in Secure Software Development Life Cycle (using CheckMarx), and analysis of penetration test findings for timely remediation and closure
  • Provide comprehensive insight of technologies with quantification of data in dashboards
  • Work with limited direction, within a complex environment, to drive delivery of solutions and meet service level agreements, including incident escalation outside standard working hours

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

  • 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD in computer science, computer engineering, information technology or related field
  • Hands on experience in Java programming for scalable, distributed, multi-threaded web services

Preferred Qualifications

  • 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD in computer science, computer engineering, information technology or related field
  • Hands on experience in Java programming for scalable, distributed, multi-threaded web services
  • More than 10 years of experience in designing, development and supporting web application with at least 2 or more major projects or years in a lead role in delivering technology critical to success
  • Hands on experience in Java programming for scalable, distributed, multi-threaded web services
  • Front-end web development experience in JavaScript or Typescript
  • Familiarity with latest open libraries/frameworks like Spring, Angular, JQuery, etc.
  • Knowledge of user authentication with federated authentication standards (such as SAML, OAuth, WS-Federation)
  • Experience in web and application server configuration (such as Apache, NGINX, Tomcat)
  • Experience in software configuration management for automated build, test and deployment (GIT, Maven, Artifactory, Jenkins)
  • Experience in code review and automated testing at unit, integration and system levels
  • Experience in setting up continuous integration and deployment pipeline
  • Experience in monitoring and support of production applications to ensure high availability
  • Experience on network routing configuration of firewall with DNS, security certificates, CDN setup
  • Knowledge and experience in management of virtual containers (such as Docker)
  • Strong focus on customer experience, excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
     

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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