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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Visa is seeking an experienced Sr. Director of Engineer to lead our engineering teams across Visa Direct locations globally. This individual will act as one of the key technology leaders to provide oversight in building the next generation payments platform for moving funds across various account types (cards, bank accounts, wallets) as well as providing value added services based on local market needs. The successful candidate will be responsible for hiring top engineering talent, understanding business objectives, and ensuring that solutions are designed to meet those objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Accountable for hiring top engineering talent and growing the engineering team in across Visa Direct locations globally.

• Be able to instill engineering excellence across the team to ensure that the solutions developed are secure, of high quality, scalable, and maintainable.

• Create an outstanding engineering culture of creativity and innovation embodying whatever it takes attitude with ownership and pride in work.

• Work collaboratively across team boundaries to develop common infrastructure and functional capabilities with reusability as a key design tenant and ensure they can be used across the entire Visa Ecosystem.

• Be hyper-focused on improving productivity by constantly reducing complexity and waste and leveraging cutting-edge capabilities like ChatGPT and Copilot.

• Extensive cross-organization collaboration playing a crucial role in interfacing with various technology teams and stakeholders to identify requirements, prioritize, and drive execution using agile methodologies. Provide feedback to core product teams to influence roadmap and strategy.

• Have the capability to lead multiple projects simultaneously, resolve scheduling & other conflicts, to meet all deadlines.

• Be accountable for providing necessary support to ensure that the application meets the desired OLA and SLA objectives.

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.

Basic Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field AND minimum seven (10) years of experience in a directly related field. OR
• Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field AND minimum nine (12) years of experience in a directly related field. OR
• Minimum twelve (17) years of directly related experience.

Preferred Qualifications:
• 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience
• Prior experience must include leadership for mission-critical system applications supporting high transaction systems.
• Demonstrate experience in building software preferably in domains that require high through-put and low-latency.
• Highly impactful leader with a technology background and the ability to engage in cross functional priorities.
• Demonstrate success in onshore-offshore organizational transformations along fostering a culture that encourages discipline, innovation in agile product development process across borders.
• Professional experience in ideation, execution, delivery and supporting products in Production.
• Demonstrate longer-term strategic thinking and staying ahead of state-of-the-art curve to keep abreast with what’s possible technically, operationally, and professionally.
• Capable of forming and advocating independent viewpoint. Demonstrate strong skills influencing, negotiating, and communicating.
• Experience in Java/J2EE technologies, Container, and database technologies.
• Understand the Security requirements and standards and contemporary trends in Security risks as well as technologies.
• Domain experience in Cross-Border money movement and Payment Technologies

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.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 192,700.00 to 265,000.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.