Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. 

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Essential Functions

As Sr. Director, Architecture, you will report to the VP of Architecture and lead a team of highly talented senior architects to map business/product requirements into technical & system requirements based on sound architectural principles to develop industry leading solutions. You will work closely with Product Management leadership to coordinate and manage input from business stakeholders across the enterprise and have overall responsibility for the execution of multiple, large-scale technology initiatives for your domain. You possess excellent communication skills and will play a key role in managing and executing solutions that deliver client value and lasting business impact.

You will drive and execute a strategic technology roadmap with a well-defined target state and long-term architecture in alignment with Visa’s technology goals. You will also draw heavily upon your mix of technical and business acumen and experience in ecommerce, mobile technologies, risk analysis, security, digital payments, and a variety of web-based technologies to enhance existing products or enable new products.

You will interact with organizational stake holders such as senior executives, senior product managers, and external partners like fortune 100 system integrators, wallet providers, and banks.

You will be an integral part of the Architecture Team and contribute deliverables towards organizational vision for security, high-availability and, resiliency in partnership with Visa's Global Operations and Cybersecurity teams.

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

• 12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 9 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 15+ years of relevant work 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
• Bachelor’s / master’s degree in computer science or other technology field. Typically requires 18+ years of experience in delivering enterprise-class, mission-critical, commercial, and scalable products, at least 5 of which were in the role of an architect.
• Prior management experience leading an architecture team is required.
• Deep understanding of payments domain, including hands-on experience with payment tokenization and EMVCo standards is a must.
• Extensive Experience with web services standards and related technologies (HTTP, XML, JSON, REST, SOAP, WS*), Java and databases
• Hands-on experience with payment tokenization, secure element fundamentals, encryption technologies, HSM is required.
• Must have strong experience in API design and System and Component Design. API standards, API security, API performance, API availability
• Experience in Security: Web, Mobile and backend (B2C and B2B security – authentication, authorization and encryption)
• Experience working with a variety of Application Servers and Databases such as Tomcat and Oracle. Other technologies such as MongoDB or Cassandra is a plus
• Experience in Micro Services, Service Mesh, Containers, DevOps is a big plus
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal). Should be comfortable facilitating multi-team activities
• Strong leadership skills and comfortable presenting complex ideas to small and large groups in a clear and concise way. Candidate should be confident in their ability to influence and develop relationships with key partners
• Digital wallet experience is a plus

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 173,400.00 to 238,500.00 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.