Senior 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

Visa’s Technology Organization is a collaborative community of problem solvers and innovators dedicated to 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 individuals.

CMS (Commercial and Money Movement Solutions) represents a key strategic growth area for Visa, as we seek to digitize commercial payments and money movement flows, supporting financial institutions, fintech and fintech enablers, corporates and governments. CMS delivers value through:

• Commercial solutions: B2B credential solutions and supporting data, analytics and services for small businesses, mid-market, large corporates and governments

• Money movement: Send/receive funds domestically and cross-border to any card, account or wallet globally — with the features that are most relevant for your use case.

As a Senior Director for the VISA CMS team, you will provide technology leadership to build the next generation of B2B Payables and Visa Commercial Solutions Hub products. You will get the opportunity to work on complex distributed systems and lead massive scale projects centered on new payment flows while collaborating with product and architecture partners. You will lead strategic projects and manage development teams aligned to business strategy and contribute to GenAI innovation across the organization especially the Agentic AI initiatives.

Essential Functions:

• Understands various development methodologies and their respective best practices 

• Demonstrates thorough abilities as a successful team leader: leading teams to generate a vision, establish direction and motivate members, create an atmosphere of trust, leverage diverse views, coach staff, and encourage improvement and innovation 

• Proven ability to collaborate and work horizontally throughout a complex organization 

• You must be a self–starter and a team player interested in joining and maintaining a collegial work environment

• Excellent inter-personal and communications skills 

• Creative thinking and problem-solving skills 

• Process oriented and able to work independently with very minimal supervision 

• Communicate with members of the department to set project timeline and deliverables 

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

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
•Expert in web service standards and related patterns (REST, gRPC)
•Proven knowledge of Generative AI /Agentic AI/ Data Science.
•Proven knowledge of successful design, architecture and development of Shared
Services and framework including Micro Services, Container Technologies,
Caching, API gateway and Security.
•Possesses a deep understanding of benefits/drawbacks of different integration
patterns.

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 191,700.00 to 299,650.00 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.