Lead Software Engineer (Ariba Solution Architect)

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

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.

Job Description

Job Duties:

As the Lead Software Engineer/Ariba Solution Architect, you will play a pivotal role in leading and managing Ariba initiatives. We are looking for someone who is hands-on and willing to challenge existing solutions and development processes, to lead a team in building system solutions with emphasis in user experience, functionality, automation, resilience, performance and availability.

 

Essential Functions

  • Responsible for designing, developing and deploying projects and enhancements for Visa’s Financial ERP Systems, primarily focused on SAP Ariba product suite deployed globally.
  • Provide strong hands-on technical expertise, analyze business requirement, evaluate new functionality, develop necessary integration and custom codes, identify risks, and collaborate with IT and Business teams, to deliver flexible, innovative, cost effective solutions while meeting business needs.
  • Partners with SAP Ariba and internal stakeholders to optimize the system and related processes. Facilitate communication and training to various user groups.
  • Determine short-term and long-term resource needs and staffing strategy. Participate in recruiting and mentoring new and existing resources.
  • Lead by example and bias toward action - Stay hands-on in development and testing work, maintain high-level view while recognizing the need to work out details.
  • Collaborating with project management, Quality Assurance and Production Support teams to ensure on time delivery of projects, production support plans, and knowledge transfer for long-term supportability of the system.
  • Work with Engineering teams (OS, Network, Storage and Middleware) to translate application requirements into system requirements.
  • Create comprehensive documentation of designs for both small and large projects that take into account all areas of development.
  • Follow existing application standards, conventions and best practices as part of the existing SDLC. Engage in lessons learned and continuous process improvement around the SDLC. Ensure that applications and code are compliant with Visa security requirements.
  • Establish credibility throughout the organization by practicing the Visa leadership principles -- collaboration, exceling with partners, maintaining open communication, encouraging and inspiring staff.
  • Provide assistance to other team members as needed. Facilitate knowledge transfer and cross training among team members.

 

This is an on-site position. An on-site position must be consistently performed at an assigned Visa office location and require daily commute to the office location.

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
  • 10 years of experience designing and implementing Source to Pay/ Procure to Pay systems using SAP Ariba.
  • Strong track record of successful project delivery. At least 3 full life-cycle implementations of Ariba Source to Pay On-Demand (Cloud) solutions. Experience in both Ariba On-Demand and Ariba On-Premise solutions is highly desirable.
  • Good functional knowledge of Ariba Source to Pay modules including Sourcing, Contract, Procurement, Invoicing and Payment, Supplier Lifecycle and Performance, Supplier Risk, Guided Buying. Familiarity with Finance operations (accounts payable, sourcing, accounting, financial internal controls) business process in a global setting.
  • Deep understanding of enterprise application architecture and data modeling, as well as object relational database mapping. Familiarity with industry standards and best practices.
  • Both project and day to day production support experience with Ariba applications.
  • Passion for enterprise applications and continuous innovation. Ability to translate complex ideas into easy to understand concepts and articulate technical solutions
  • Experience working with stakeholders/partners at all levels, globally, across the organization. Good verbal and written communication skills
  • Driven and self-motivated. Multi-tasking ability essential to handle multiple priorities with minimal direction from management.


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
  • 12 years of experience designing and implementing Source to Pay/ Procure to Pay systems using SAP Ariba. SAP Ariba certification a plus.
  • Extensive hands-on implementation and customization experience in Ariba solutions. High proficiency in Ariba development tools/technologies such as Java, AML, AQL, JavaScript, Web Services. Deep understanding of Ariba object models, system architecture and integration framework.
  • Strong expertise in system integration and familiarity with enterprise application integration (EAI) tools and technologies, such as Ariba ITK, MuleSoft, Boomi, Tibco. Experience integrating Ariba with Oracle ERP is a big plus.
  • Development experience and proficiency in Object Oriented Programming using Java/J2EE and web development technologies (HTML, JavaScript, XML and JSON).
  • Experience with Ariba reporting/analytics tool or other enterprise Business Intelligence and Analytics tools.
  • Extensive experience in managing a complex, global production environment and maintaining operational excellence. Ability to mobilize and escalate to any level necessary to get issues solved timely and effectively.

Additional Information

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees and visitors. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the U.S. are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

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