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.

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.   We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people.   While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.   

The Opportunity:

Are you a director ready to pave the way for our most meaningful asset, our engineers, to deliver outstanding features with the highest quality? You understand the business imperatives tied to these strategic projects. You provide technology leadership and are the technical expert on strategic projects, drive the release strategy and guide the delivery of strategic projects aligned to business strategy. You maintain awareness of dependencies between projects and delivery vision, while ensuring engineering excellence to the five nines. You build the strategy for your teams to architect, design and deliver the next wave of enterprise FinTech innovation.

Essential Functions:

We expect our director to do much more than just lead multiple teams.

• Helps client to achieve their real goals by understanding the requirements and how it impacts their business.
• Defines needs, develop plans, coordinate resources, and implement action plans.
• Leads multiple projects simultaneously, resolve scheduling & other conflicts, to meet all deadlines.
• Works with a variety of development methodologies including Agile Scrum.
• Works with Technical Product Management to understand business requirements and architect a solution that is robust and scalable along with providing user documentation of solution.
• Provide employee coaching, mentoring, development, and team building.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to adapt to the situation and audience.
• Co-creating, training, and coaching new mindsets and modern ways of working at all levels (Leadership, Teams & Individuals) to focus on achieving autonomy and improved problem-solving capabilities.
• Apply your vast wisdom and expertise of sophisticated payment systems to consult, guide and enable our global client base to realize their payments aspirations.
• Develop frameworks, approaches, solutions, and recommendations that effectively and efficiently address the most impactful opportunities and challenges.
• Achieve Operational/Engineering Excellence: availability, stability, efficiency, with an availability first attitude directed towards all product development efforts.

You will possess these qualities:

• Leadership: Consistent record of responsibilities as a technical lead.
• Management: An efficient manager who can handle multiple reports and teams
• Mentor: A guide who can coach and mentor team members.
• Curiosity: A desire to seek transparency of requirements and why tasks are done in a certain way
• Creativity: Taking a list of needs and insights and come up with other innovative ideas.
• Strategic focus: Skill to understand big picture and stay focused on a task to achieve goals.
• Attention to detail: The capability to perform any research systematically and accurately.
• Strong work ethic: The aim to do work very well.
• Enthusiasm: A passion to understand people and deliver better products and services to them

• 10+ years of experience with a University Degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering, Science, Math
• 3+ years in a senior leadership or management role
• Experience in commercial software development on Unix/Linux environment.
• Experience in Java/J2EE technologies, Container, and database technologies
• Experience in or familiarity with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React/Redux, TypeScript etc.)
• Experience working on cross-browser, cross-device, hybrid apps
• Consumer/user facing application development experience.
• Understanding of architecture and operations of highly available and scalable transactional systems.
• Domain knowledge of Payment Processing and Tokenization.
• Experience with agile development process

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.

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.