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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Primary Responsibilities

The Payment Products Development Team is building a new generation of products to facilitate commerce in everyone's digital and mobile lives. Our focus is to build intuitive features that expose profound new value for our customers, merchants and developers.

As a Director, you will be part of our Authorization Services team in Payment Products Development. You will be responsible for leading a team of software engineers in the design, development, testing, and support of VisaNet's online Authorization System. You will also be responsible for instilling a culture of continuous improvement and innovation, working closely with business stakeholders to ensure that the Authorization System meets the needs of Visa's customers, developing and executing on a long-term technology strategy for the Authorization System, staying up to date on the latest trends in software engineering, and being an advocate for activities and practices that help to boost Visa's financial health.

The Work itself: 

• Collaborate cross-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings 
• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, value added service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads 
• Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions 
• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology 
• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities 

 Essential Functions: 

• Partners with stakeholders and leaders across business units to establish business requirements for use in designing technical solutions.
• Empowers team to develop design options and determine the scope and scale of effort required to implement final requirements.
• Monitors system enhancements and production fixes across departments.
• Assesses and champions plans to extend current systems to new products and services or refinements to standards, processes, and systems.
• Reviews multiple teams' solutions during rotational, on-call support for problem analysis and resolution when necessary.
• Oversees design and code review sessions as appropriate. Removes barriers to ensure the quality of work delivered by teams is in accordance with development standards. Ensures functionality of tools and processes.

The Skills You Bring: 

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale 
• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, “hacking” beyond traditional solutions 
• Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++) 
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability 
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc. 
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have awesome team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa. 

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, reach with hands and arms, and bend or lift up to 25 pounds.

Incumbent must make themselves available during core business hours. This position requires the incumbent to travel for work less than 10% of the time.

This position is based in Highlands Ranch, CO.

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.

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.