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.

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What’s it all about?

Cybersecurity is at the beating heart of our business. Our diligence and expertise is what makes us the undisputed leader in electronic payments.  We’ve made it our priority to create a top-tier Security Architecture team, poised to defend us against any potential cyber threats.  

We’re looking for those of you who are inherently driven and fascinated by the art and science of cyber defence. We’ll equip you with the very best tools and tech so that you can deliver top notch results. 

Continuous self-development underpins job fulfilment at Visa. As a Security Architect, you’ll be enthused by working on a wide-range of enterprise and customer-facing projects, as well as the chance to work with top notch professionals to learn with and from.

What we expect of you, day to day:

So what do we expect of you day to day? Here’s a bit of a heads up:

The Security Architect will work as a member of the Global Cybersecurity organization – Security Architecture team, which is focused on improving technology and architecture decision-making through collaboration with management, staff and customers on technology strategy, enterprise architecture, and investments in strategic security technology.

The individual, with a broad cybersecurity plus systems and network architecture knowledge and experience, will deliver security assessments while supporting our direction, lifecycle management and leadership for security architecture and technology. The individual will perform a key role in Security assessments while supporting various critical initiatives through the identification, analysis, evaluation, lifecycle management and adoption of security architectures and technologies. The Security Architect will work closely with other security functions and will provide guidance to ensure that there is coordination with their activities in technology choices. In addition, the Security Architect will be involved with education and mentorship, supporting the delivery framework, development of technical architecture and associated documentation, as well as advanced topics of research.

• Leading and contributing to the security posture of Visa’s networks and systems, data centre infrastructures, cloud architectures and solutions

• Developing, contributing and management of Design Patterns, Reference Architectures, Security Strategies and Roadmaps

• Applying security design principles to develop security solutions architectures

• Providing strategic points of view for security solutions

• Developing and/or carrying out the strategic direction of security projects to enable execution of the information security strategy

• Developing security solutions to enable execution of the long-term security architecture in the cybersecurity product area

• Driving security technologies evaluations, proof-of-concepts, and production pilots

• Building strong cross-organizational relationship through integration with the teams, in order to effectively influencing staff across the IT organization and product groups

• Managing the lifecycle of security technologies

• Working closely with the other technology architects to ensure that security is properly embedded in their technology domains architectures

• Assisting other architects in defining the variance processes and making variance decisions

• Evaluating and assessing risk as part of lifecycle management

• Staying current with security technologies, as well as development techniques and methodologies in order to make recommendations for use based on business value

• Advising leadership on Cybersecurity issues, systems, processes, products, and services

• Maintaining oversight of the design and implementation of IT systems to ensure appropriate and effective security controls are included.

• Contribute to the definition of overall IT architecture from a cybersecurity lens.

What we’re after…

• A BSc in Computer Science or another relevant discipline at 2:1 or above / or work-related experience
• Moderate to significant Cybersecurity, engineering and design experience in Data Centre Systems, Cloud Infrastructure and Platforms (IaaS security, PaaS security)
• Experience doing threat-modelling of complex systems
• Experience in delivering comprehensive architecture specifications for complex infrastructure security solutions
• Experience with creating technical documentation: product documentation, technology, software and systems architecture, and technical whitepapers
• Working experience with the following concepts: SSL Crypto Solutions, Data Protection and Security, Software Development Methodologies (E.G. Agile), API Gateways, Data Analytics
• Experience with open source security technologies
• Hands on cloud architecture, with knowledge and working experience in: OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, Server Virtualization hypervisors (KVM, Xen, Hyper-V, VSphere), Linux Containers technologies (Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes), and distributed computing
• Experience with Linux and Linux security
• Programming/coding and DevOps experience is a plus (Python, Java, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef)
• Experience in feature and bug management through JIRA
• Solid understanding of and ability to speak to security principles in areas such as application security, virtualization, cloud technologies, access control.
• Experience with compliance, regulatory and legal requirements relevant to the payments processing industry such as PCI, SOX, Bank of England, and GDPR.
• Strong understanding of relevant Industry Principles, Best Practices, and Standards, such as PCI, NIST, ISO, IEEE, and TCG