Chief Systems Architect

As a Chief Systems Architect you will lead and manage several strategic initiatives within the Spend Clarity team. This role focuses on strategizing leading and influencing architecture and technology across all of Visa Spend Clarity.

You will oversee and guide various initiatives ensuring that developed solutions align with the platforms architectural and software target state. Your role involves creating innovative solutions that provide value to clients in an agile manner while fulfilling broader architectural goals.

Key responsibilities include collaborating with product owners and delivery teams to understand their key interests and manage nonfunctional expectations. You will work closely with a global team of architects and business experts to achieve our objectives.

You will deliver highlevel architecture and design artifacts for large initiatives and guide development teams on detailed design artifacts. You will play a key role in ensuring business requirements are translated into secure scalable and efficient software system designs. The architecture group is a core part of the engineering team participating in the entire software development lifecycle.

Whenever necessary you will prototype new approaches to demonstrate the viability of creative initiatives and technologies. You will provide thought leadership on existing and emerging payment trends developing a vision for specific solution areas with broad applicability. You will stay abreast of new technology trends innovations and demands from Visas strategic partners to enhance existing products or create new solutions with faster timetomarket.

You will be part of a team focused on growing Visa Spend Claritys capabilities and services to deliver scalable and robust solutions globally. With an engineering group of nearly 200 people Visa Spend Clarity is a key focus area with large growth ambitions driven by customer needs and a desire to innovate using modern technologies.

Overall a Chief Systems Architect plays a pivotal role in guiding architecture and engineering teams across the organization to deliver highquality solutions maintaining a comprehensive view of the technology landscape and supporting Visa Spend Claritys growth and innovation to meet customer needs and strategic goals.
 

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 23 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 with a Bachelors Degree or at least 9 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD OR 15 years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
15 or more years of experience with a Bachelors Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD or MD) PhD with 9 years of experience
12 years experience in a Software Development environment.
8 years experience as an architect.
A high level of general technical knowledge including current emerging and future technology trends and their potential business impact.
Experience in leading crossfunctional teams in the design implementation and governance of complex systems and solutions.
Ability to explain technical concepts to a nontechnical audience in a way that is relevant easy to consume and compelling.
Experience of leading largescale transformation initiatives including the integration of legacy systems and modern technologies.
Experience working in an iterative or Agile delivery environment ideally including exposure to DevOps based buildit runit teams.
Experience in leading delivery of complex distributed secure and scalable architecture solutions within a large organisation.
Experience influencing technical strategy and leading execution of crossfunctional initiatives.
Experience with justification phase work strategic product discovery opportunity analysis business case formulation.
Proven leadership experience in leading technical engineering teams preferably with a track record of successfully delivering complex architecture projects.
Experience of stakeholder engagement including executive and/or senior leadership level.

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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime