Senior Director Architecture HybridOnsite

About Open Visa Net

VisaNet continues to serve as one of the worlds largest and most innovative payment networks and has operated at the heart of Visas business since its inception. Its unparalleled scale reliability and processing capabilities have powered businesses and consumers across the globe for more than 50 years dedicated to delivering the best way to pay and be paid.

As Visa continues to innovate and evolve to meet ever changing needs of the global payments ecosystem we are developing Open VisaNet (OVN) the next generation payments processing platform that will build on VisaNets success. This leverages modern architecture and development practices core enhancements and the latest technologies to meet current and future requirements of our Product teams clients and partners.

Essential Functions

Reporting to VP of Open VisaNet Product Architecture Requirements and Design the Sr. Director of Architecture will be fully accountable for service and platform architecture for Open VisaNets core payment processing stack. The candidate will be responsible for a global team of senior architects to execute technology project architecture definition technology strategy and planning and play a leadership role in large strategic initiatives providing guidance to executive stakeholders.

This individual will provide thought and people leadership to identify and execute the actions required for successful delivery of Visas strategic priorities. The individual must be a strong leader able to engage and challenge senior audiences identify and prioritize actions and navigate a highlymatrixed global environment.

Specific Responsibilities Include

Leverage existing working knowledge of VisaNet processing including but not limited to authorization clearing and settlement functionality and services in driving the ideation design and development of future OVN products and enhancements.

Provides technology leadership to large/complex projects and working across subfunctions as needed for projects that are crossenterprise.

Support the development and delivery of stakeholder communications in partnership with OVN Technology Marketing and Communications.

Supports both product and technical discussions about how to apply existing and/or new technology in support of the business.

Apply creative thinking/approach to determine technical solutions that further business goals and align with corporate technology strategies keeping in mind security performance reliability scalability usability flexibility and cost.

Partner with application development teams and various groups supporting Open VisaNet and its interfacing applications to drive new initiatives.

Foster innovation and leverage new technologies like Generative Artificial Intelligence.

Maintain staff by recruiting selecting orienting and training employees maintaining a safe secure and legal work environment and developing personal growth opportunities.

Manage the teams performance to achieve target scope schedule and cost objectives.

Operational Excellence: monitoring & operation of production services including understanding user experience & ensuring happy customers through partnering with your product support team.

Secondary Responsibilities

Demonstrated business savvy to work effectively with all levels of the organization to achieve key business and technology goals.

Instill best practices for software/systems architecture and documentation.

Provide subject matter expertise across the enterprise in the areas of payment processing.

Create an environment where accountability is expected and valued.

Working closely with Product partners Technology Client Service Marketing and Communication teams on a range of technical readiness activities related to OVNs GoToMarket strategy.

Evangelize OVN architecture across the enterprise to seek out reuse opportunities.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work alternating weeks from the office two days a week a Tuesday and Wednesday and three days a week Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% 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
BS/MS in Computer Science / Computer Engineering Science Math
Typically requires 15 years total experience including 10 years experience in payments or Technology with a focus on transaction processing services.
Practical knowledge and understanding of VisaNet transaction processing flows including
Authorization Clearing and Settlement functionality and related Value Add Services.
Experience with cloudnative technologies:
GoLang C/C
Kafka
Kubernetes Envoy Consul
Datastore NoSQL and RDBMS
Public cloud

Ability to lead and manage complex projects independently working across multiple workstreams in a matrixed organization and engaging at all levels.
Strong leadership and people management skills with demonstrated ability to lead global multifunctional teams.
An experienced technology leader with a consistent record of highly scalable product development.
Demonstrated experience with architecting solutions for highly scalable highly available systems is required.
Proven knowledge of successful design architecture and development.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills able to development document and explain the technology strategy to diverse audiences both technology and business from executives to staff. Ability to drive consensus across diverse global technology and business partners will be key.
Client facing experience especially in VisaNet transaction processing related topics a plus.
Eagerness to work in teams with colleagues of all levels to accomplish long term project objectives.
Superior analytic and problemsolving skills with demonstrated analytic rigor and attention to detail.
Personal executive presence and ability to communicate compelling messages clearly and succinctly to senior level executive excellent presentation skills including strong oral and writing capabilities.

Additional Information :

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 510% 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 204500.00 to 296700.00 USD per year which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on jobrelated 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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime