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

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

 

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

 

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

 

Job Description

This role reports to the Head of Operations & Infrastructure and is responsible for responsible for leading a Distributed Systems Engineering and Architecture teams globally. The team is responsible for architecture and engineering of hardware and software for compute, storage and the software that supports them including virtualization, containers, automation and infrastructure as code.  The team has the responsibility for designing, deploying and managing solutions throughout their full system lifecycle.

 

In this role you will be accountable for designing and building innovative infrastructure solutions to support a massively scaled and high throughput environment in both private and public cloud datacenters. The position interacts with senior leadership within Visa and with a diverse set of vendors. You will drive key technology, platform and tooling decisions balancing technical, practical and application considerations.  Extensive experience managing engineering teams as a hands on technical leader is a must. We are looking for a strong, passionate, seasoned, and innovative technology leader who will be a part of the Technology Leadership team and work collaboratively across Visa with different stakeholders to deliver commercial services to our clients. This is an incredibly senior and transformational role, and one of autonomy and next generation thinking.   

 

Responsibilities

Lead a team of approximately 170 located across the globe in locations in the US, UK, Singapore and India.Develop technology strategies and roadmaps to meet business objectives with emerging technologies by partnering with Technology and Product stakeholdersDesign and implement agile innovative infrastructure solutions that take advantage of technology advances resulting standardization, cost reduction and performance.Provide Compute as a Service offering to internal customers that are easy to consume, elastic, secure and reliable using Open Source based Cloud/ Container solutions.Partner with all the teams to design, implement and integrate Open Source based private cloud/ Containers platform in Visa’s data centers across the globe, enable the cloud solution to interoperate smoothly with existing IT infrastructure and processes, ensure security, availability and agility.Implement programs to reduce surface attack area through adoption of minimalistic operating systemsDrive the adoption of standard toolsets to reduce complexity and support Operational goals for increasing automation across the enterpriseApply creative thinking/approach to determine technical solutions that further business goals and align with corporate technology strategies, while considering security, performance, reliability, scalability, usability, flexibility, and costProvide resource plans, budget tracking and forecasting. Manage the team to achieve target scope, schedule and cost objectivesManage CAPEX/ OPEX for large initiatives. Drive requirement for vendor contracts and negotiation.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 8 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications
15 or more years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, PhD)
• 15+ years of experience work experience in building and running global scale operational platforms and distributed systems. At least 10+ years in high scale always-on SaaS platforms.
• Proven ability to lead with passion and execute vision with little guidance
• Ability to provide technical thought leadership and management in building always on infrastructure that mees and exceeds architecture and uptime and availability 99.9999% and more
• Prior hands-on experience in designing, building and implementing cloud and container infrastructure solutions.
• Experience in building automated solutions to provision, configure and decommission infrastructure components and stacks.
• Prior experience with x86 hardware, virtualization, operating system, containers and deployment of infrastructure for large enterprises is also required. Mainframe experience is desirable.
• Extensive technology background in the x86 hardware, virtualization, operating system, compute, containers and tools ecosystem to manage compute, cloud and containers, including monitoring, logging, configuration management and Cloud/ Container orchestration platforms
• Experience in selecting, designing and developing a toolchain with loosely coupled software components to perform specific technical functions.
• Experience in managing $100M+ budgets
• Extraordinary collaboration and partnership skills with the ability to work in a global environment and drive consensus in multi-functional teams.
• Ability to technically understand and drive new technology implementations, having a track record of leading the delivery of complex, multi-faceted technology initiatives with laser focused execution
• Proven ability to establish and sustain effective, professional relationships with team members, peers and leadership. Provide leadership to the technology group in order to create the right solutions for the market in the required time frames.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to present to senior leadership, drive consensus and influence outcomes.

Additional Qualifications
• Domain knowledge and expertise in commerce and payment systems and platforms
• Experience with compliance requirements including PCI, SOX, SSAE/ISAE requirements
• Experience with regulatory standard including FFIEC/FBA. BOE
• Strong Intellect. Bright individual, with ability to combine analytical reasoning, creativity and judgment. Quick study, able to handle complex matters, with multiple initiatives going on simultaneously. Able to deal effectively with strategic issues, as well as tactical operational details.
• Highly Ethical. Can be trusted to do only the right thing for the employees, shareholders, and others. Follows a balanced approach without compromising integrity.
• Values and Leadership. Demonstrates alignment to Visa’s Values (Integrity, Clients, People, Collaboration, Innovation and Excellence) and has the capability to lead and motivate a team. Demonstrates commitment to growing and developing internal talent.
• Results Oriented. Energetic, resourceful, with strong service orientation and positive can-do attitude. Fully committed to the job and to deliver outstanding work. Never satisfied with status-quo, continually striving for excellence. Enjoys working hands-on.
• Change Agent. Comfortable designing for the future, while managing day-to-day matters. Able to anticipate risks and propose practical plans to mitigate them.
• Low Ego. Puts needs of the business ahead of themselves. Operates in a transparent fashion without a personal agenda. Possesses a well-developed sense of humor and listens first.
• Self-starter. Able to challenge the status-quo sensitively and constructively. Intellectually agile, self-confident and highly articulate.
• Relationship Building / Influencing: Demonstrate effective and appropriate influencing skills with senior management/partners, combining high-level human capital knowledge with deep organizational understanding. Build strong relationships with solid trust and mutual respect as the foundation. Leverage strong judgment skills to make decisions. Instinctively know when and how to introduce change, in such a way that it is broadly accepted and institutionalized.

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

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 210,200 to 386,300 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.