Senior Director

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

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 containerized applications deployed on the shared Kubernetes clusters. 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 also leads the “Shared Control Plane” which is built on top of the Visa Container as a Service offering, to offer a holistic release orchestration and single pane of glass for operations team to support the containerized applications. The backend for this is built using Go.
• This role is expected to manage developers leveraging different languages and frameworks and should set the right SSDLC guidelines and guardrails to ensure the teams’ success.
• 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.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:-

• 18+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 16+ years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 12 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 18+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:-

• 18 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 16+ years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 12+ years of experience
• 8 years of experience in leading other development teams or team of teams.
• 8 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

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.