Director, Software 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.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

As a Director in Card Processing, Acceptance Solutions org you will pave the way for our most important asset, our engineers, to deliver amazing features with highest quality. You understand the business imperatives tied to these strategic projects. You provide hands-on technology leadership and are the technical expert in driving projects, driving the release strategy and guiding the delivery of projects aligned to business strategy on innovative payment acceptance & integrated commerce management. 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

• Designing technical solutions working with leads.

• Identify, navigate, and overcome technical and organizational barriers that may stand in the way of delivery.

• Constantly improve the processes and practices around development and delivery.

• Deliver reliable, highly available, and highly scalable systems in a Lean, agile, and domain driven engineering environment.

• Always think customer first, including striving to outperform their expectations.

• Effectively work with Product Managers, Cross Location leads and other stakeholders to ensure the customer is benefiting from the work.

• Be willing to experiment and learn fast.

• Work across teams and across geographic boundaries to ensure seamless integration of the enterprise solution.

• Engineering and Scrum Management of at least two teams.

• Develop and implement validation tools that can be applied globally.

• Work with Product Managers to consume product backlog and generate technical design.

• Leading by example on design and development of business and platform features.

• Lead Software teams in the design, development, test, and release activities.

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
10+ years of development experience in building and driving enterprise scale services and platforms using Java/J2EE, Containers and database technologies.
Develops and executes strategy to achieve key business objectives defined in collaboration with senior management
Experience designing and implementing solutions in Java, with solid design, analytical and problem-solving skills.
Understanding of architecture and operations of highly available and scalable transactional systems.
5+ years of leadership/management experience working with cross-location and cross-functional teams.
Great planning and organizational navigation skills.
Experience with agile development process
Strong verbal, written & interpersonal communication skills with both technical & non-technical audiences
Excellent team player, with strong collaboration skills and ability to influence cross-functional team for results

Additional Information

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 176,400.00 to 256,000.00 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.