Director of Engineering

Company Description

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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Job Description

Job Description

As a Director in Issuer Processing, you will manage the Platform Services development team based in Poland, Warsaw location where you will be responsible and accountable for the design, development, and support of multiple applications across several hardware platforms.   This position will have responsibility of day-to-day management of a team of up to 15 software developers and will also contribute to the software development process.  This position will report to the Sr. Director of Issuer Processing Platform Services development based in US

Essential Functions: 

• Build and maintain a high performing team hire and retain the right talent in the right role

• Develop and empower direct reports to make appropriate technical decisions

• Demonstrate Visa’s core values and maintain a positive and open demeanor

• Foster a culture of teamwork, collaboration and mentoring

• Manage resources in alignment with forecast models

• Partner with Product resources to identify clear business requirements

• Manage development resources by setting clear business and technical expectations

• Manage development resources across multiple technologies including .Net, Java, SQL, NoSQL, Windows, Unix/Linux

• Work collaboratively with senior management, architecture and senior development staff to develop broadly acceptable solutions

• Set resource goals and delegate project work

• Drive consistency in artifacts and deliverables, budgets, and resource planning

• Identify process improvements and/or ineffective use of project hours and resources

• Generate innovative ideas, solutions, and opportunities to contribute to the Visa enterprise and Issuer Processing success

• Ensure resource availability to support deployment activities in various environments

• Take complete responsibility of the full life cycle of projects and oversee software release implementations when required

• Design and develop highly scalable and fault-tolerant systems using multiple technologies

• Agile development methodology experience (Scrum/Kanban) preferred

• Attention to detail with good organizational capabilities

• Ability to prioritize with good time management skills

• Strong analytical, problem determination and customer relations skills

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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience

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

Additional Information

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.