Sr. 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.

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Job Description

Visa is seeking an accomplished and passionate Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead and manage the Acceptance Devices products within Visa Acceptance Solutions (also known as Cybersource).

In this role, you will take managerial responsibility for a cross-functional end-to-end product offering and engineering team, from SDK and mobile app frontend developments to cloud and hybrid cloud backend developments. You will act as a servant leader, enabling teams to deliver through collaboration, fostering their growth, and ensuring the continued scale-up of the Acceptance Devices offering. As part of your management responsibilities, you will engage and work in close partnership with your business and product counterparts in Acceptance Solutions to maintain alignment and ensure non-functional requirements : performance, scalability, security, are addressed during development.

You will help teams work toward shared technical vision, encouraging active knowledge exchange across all development groups, guiding them away from siloed solutioning and enabling them to leverage learnings and existing implementations from others. A key focus will be on leveraging generative AI to enhance developer and resource efficiency. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of the payments domain, including expertise in EMV, 3DS, Identity, Biometrics, and other payment-specific technologies. This role requires a strategic leader who regularly interfaces with the leadership team to communicate the strategic direction, progress and execution of projects.

Key Responsibilities :

1) Leadership & Strategy :

• Provide technical leadership and strategic direction for the engineering and architecture of highly scalable and available distributed systems.
• Develop and drive technical solutions, make appropriate technical decisions and
• deliver solutions that align with Visa’s business objectives, ensuring quality, uptime, usability, scalability, reliability, and security.
• Serve as an expert in EMV and in-person payments, coaching and mentoring
• development teams on payment technology and EMV-related topics.

2)Project Management :

3) Collaboration & Communication :

4)Efficiency & Innovation :

5)Mentorship & Development :

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

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.

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