Director Software Engineering

Job Description And Responsibilities

Commercial and Money Movement division’s charter is to capture new sources of money movement through card and non-card flows, including Visa Commercial Solutions, Government Solutions and Visa Direct which presents an enormous growth opportunity.

Our team brings payment solutions and associated services to clients around the globe. Our global clients and partners deploy our solutions to serve the needs of Small Businesses, Middle Market Clients, Large Corporate Clients, Multi Nationals and Governments.

The Visa Commercial Solutions (VCS) and Visa Government Solutions (VGS) team is a world-class technology organization experiencing tremendous, double-digit growth as we expand products into new payment flows and continue to grow our core card solutions.

This is an incredibly exciting team to join as we expand globally.

B2B Acceptance is part of Visa Commercial Solutions vertical of Visa’s Technology organization. We are responsible for designing, developing and implementing Virtual Cards, payables and acceptance commercial platforms to drive incremental revenue.

We develop new offerings / products and enhance existing Visa Commercial Solutions product lines including Commercial data processing, B2B Acceptance platforms.

We are looking for Director of Engineering to join our B2B Acceptance team based in Atlanta, USA

In this leadership opportunity, you will lead B2B platform / product development team to directly impact the solutions delivery with engineering excellence, payment systems, data engineering re-architecture, product research, experimental designs, metrics innovations and adoptions to enable us strengthening every area of the business.

You will pursue these challenges as a senior technical thought leader and work closely with product / technology organizations, client services, operations and program management office.

In addition to leading a world-class team, you will influence business and technical strategies to help us solidify our Visa’s vision and continue our quest to revolutionize the future of B2B payments at scale.

Essential Functions :

• Aligns enhancements and modifications to existing software coding standard processes and design specifications, across regions, and ensures they are aligned with current security standards.
• Guides the implementation of automation to improve effectiveness and efficiencies of systems and tools across regions and supports development and implementation of new automation, identifying where investment will yield the greatest efficiencies.
• Maintains communication with regional leadership across functions to monitor and direct the cadence of code reviews, on-call rotations, and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles.
• Leverages back-end technical expertise on underlying systems / platforms across the organization to lead the development systematic improvements in processes to ensure the fulfillment of customer and business objectives.
• Responsible for building a strong B2B Acceptance team for commercial products and solutions.
• Inspire and lead your team to deliver strategic and novel approaches that help optimize Visa’s approach to growth, the client-facing products, and streaming payment processing and guide ongoing product decisions.
• Partner with business for market research across the B2B transaction eco system to understand the key impediments to Visa’s acceptance for commercial transactions.
• Grow and expand your expert team with an eye toward diverse and forward-pushing skills that span data engineering, experimentation, and building of resilient solutions.
• Lead strong partnerships key stakeholders including product management, engineering, design, and operations.
• Engage in technical and functional discussions with all engineering teams with strong interpersonal and organizational skills to effectively manage multiple work streams.
• Articulate with both technical and business partners to create effective frameworks to aid the discussion of complicated topics.

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 :

8+ years of relevant work experience and Master's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field OR, 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

• Mentor, coach, manage and motivate a high performing team of senior engineers, managers (including managers / director-level) and set clear priorities to achieve goals and KPIs.
• Strong past experience in Java / J2EE, big data Hadoop ecosystems, open systems and data science.
• Executes the vision of B2B Acceptance, ensuring delivery of differentiating products / services for Visa and Issuers / Partners.
• Extensive cross organizational collaboration playing a crucial role in interfacing with various technology teams and business stakeholders to identify requirements, converting them to functional specs, prioritizing and driving execution using agile methodologies
• Evangelize developer productivity solutions and systems across all teams to drive more adoption.
• Lead feedback / influence high end technical designs into core product strategy, roadmap and go to market.
• Establish best practices in client application development using engineering excellence, for incidents / change / problem management globally.
• Good to have and / or knowledge of payment processing

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 150,400.00 to 218,050.00 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.