Senior Director - PaaS 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

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.   We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people.   While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.   

The Opportunity:

The Sr. Director role in the Visa Cloud Platform team entails leading multiple development teams to enhance the automation of Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 activities in the lifecycle of applications deployed on the private cloud platform. The teams are comprised of full stack developers, tech leads and Directors who manage teams themselves. A successful candidate for this position will be able to have a positive impact on the experience of other product development teams within Visa.

The Work itself:

• Overview of the expected work

• The work involves leading teams adhering to Visa’s leadership principles of leading courageously, obsessing about our customers, collaborating with other teams, and excelling in execution.

• The Visa Cloud Platform comprises of 100s of micro-services and micro-front end components designed to work together as a cohesive platform to enable our customers to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of their applications – from ideation to decommissioning of services. The primary language used in the backend is Java with Spring framework as the base framework. The front end is mostly built using Typescript and AngularJS. Other significant software / frameworks leveraged are Activiti, Quartz, MongoDB, and MySQL.

• This role is expected to collaborate closely with other partners in Operations and Infrastructure like Compute, Storage, Network, Middleware and Database Engineering teams. There will be significant integration with our CyberSecurity services, requiring close partnership with them.

Essential Functions

The Skills You Bring:

• Lead multiple development teams to manage and enhance Visa’s Private Cloud Platform.

• Bring in strong technical expertise to drive the architecture and high-level design of different services.

• Lead technical discussions and communicate regularly with senior leadership on technical issues, program status, and escalations.

• Define and advocate a set of standard technologies and architectural patterns for solving complex technical problems, specifically in the cloud computing domain.

• Champion SSDLC processes to deliver quality software on time.

• Act as a technical liaison between product, engineering teams, Cybersecurity and Operations.

• Work closely with cross-functional groups including internal stakeholders (Product Managers, Engineers, Architects, etc.), and external customers and vendors to formalize roadmaps & priorities.

• Lead by example, demonstrating accountability, and by contributing to departmental procedures, best practices, and standards.

**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.

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
• 12+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, 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
• 5 years of experience in leading other development teams or team of teams.
• 5 years of experience in systems architecture, engineering or development including experience in cloud automation frameworks, Hybrid cloud infrastructure deployments and solutions for large enterprises.
• Well versed with well-architected frameworks driving Operation excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance efficiency, Cost Optimization
• Understanding and experience with Virtualization and Containerization technologies and cloud-native Application Architecture
• Exceptional collaboration and partnership skills with the ability to work in a global environment and drive consensus in cross-functional teams.
• Proven record of defining technology roadmap, executing defined technology strategies, and driving adoption across a large enterprise
• Good understanding of Agile processes, specifically Scrum.

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 163,800.00 to 301,150.00 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.