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About the Role

Visa’s Technology Organization is seeking a dynamic and innovative leader to oversee diverse engineering teams in Bellevue, guiding them as they deliver results for their respective product partners. You will provide hands-on technical leadership, focusing on defining, executing, and delivering both functional and non-functional features at scale. This role requires balancing business needs and innovative solutions with operational excellence, while adhering to regulatory, security, and privacy standards.

Responsibilities

Spearhead the design, development, and implementation of innovative technologies and solutions, including generative AI and modern integration patterns.
Foster a culture of innovation by encouraging experimentation, knowledge sharing, and the adoption of emerging technologies within the engineering team.
Champion the design and development of APIs that integrate Value-Added Services applications, platforms, and solutions to drive incremental business value.
Develop and execute a strategic vision for the VAS platform that aligns with Visa's business goals and market opportunities.
Identify new market opportunities and enhance existing products to support business growth and platform modernization.
Lead the execution of the product modernization roadmap, ensuring scalability, reliability, and alignment with industry best practices.
Own the end-to-end software development lifecycle, ensuring timely delivery of quality, secure, and high-performing solutions with significant business impact.
Promote engineering excellence by driving best practices in quality, security, performance, scalability, and resilience.
Manage technical debt, optimize development costs, and oversee the prioritization and delivery of enhancements and maintenance activities for multiple services.
Drive automation in software development, testing, and deployment processes to enhance productivity and time-to-market.
Ensure effective incident, change, and problem management within the platform.
Hire, retain, and develop high-performing, diverse, global engineering teams.
Invest in career development through mentoring, coaching, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Build purpose-driven teams with a strong focus on accountability, collaboration, and innovation.
Collaborate cross-functionally with geographically distributed development, product, operations, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and support teams to deliver complete solutions.
Engage directly with clients and key stakeholders to understand needs, gather feedback, and ensure the VAS platform delivers exceptional value and innovation.
Oversee daily operations including budgeting, planning, resource management, delivery tracking, quality assurance, partner relationships, and performance metrics.
Ensure compliance with regulatory, security, and privacy standards across all development activities.
Continuously assess and improve technology stacks, development processes, and methodologies to enhance productivity, quality, and efficiency.
Lead initiatives to modernize and scale the VAS platform, expanding market reach and client base through best-in-class technology solutions.

Requirements

10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD
12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters or PhD) with 12+ or more years of relevant experience.
Hands-on experience with emerging technologies, including Generative AI and Machine Learning.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Experience building microservices using HTTP, REST, JSON, and XML.
Demonstrated experience as an innovation leader, successfully guiding engineering teams to deliver new products or features to the market.
Proven track record in managing software development teams delivering highly available, enterprise-level, distributed applications using languages such as Java, Python, C#, Golang, or similar.
Deep understanding of Agile methodologies and software development lifecycle.
Experience working in complex organizational environments, interpreting business and customer needs, and delivering optimal solutions.
Ability to articulate technical and business issues and solutions to various internal and external stakeholders to support organizational objectives.
Skilled in establishing technical goals for projects, defining actionable success metrics, and tracking progress.
Strong experience in coordinating multiple product and technical teams, adept at removing roadblocks and collaboratively solving complex problems.
Exceptional verbal, written, presentation, and facilitation skills, with the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and concisely to diverse audiences.
Experience delivering integrated solutions composed of both internally developed applications and third-party commercial offerings.
Proficient in measuring services from the user experience perspective, setting and monitoring SLAs and KPIs.
Payment industry experience is highly desirable.
Travel 5-10% of the time.

Skills

Generative AI
Machine Learning
HTTP
REST
JSON
XML
Java
Python
C#
Golang
Agile methodologies
Software development lifecycle
Angular
React
Kubernetes
Docker

Location

Bellevue

Work Type

Onsite
Full-time

Experience Level

10+ years
8+ years
3+ years
12+ years
6+ years

Education Level

Bachelor’s Degree
Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD)
PhD

Salary/Compensations

$232,300.00 - $406,600.00 USD per year

Benefits

Medical
Dental
Vision
401(k)
FSA/HSA
Life Insurance
Paid Time Off
Wellness Program

About the Company

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
At Visa, you’ll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.
Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world.
Progress starts with you.
Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators 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 everyday people.
While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.
Visa is rapidly expanding our Value Added Services (VAS) product portfolio globally, and the VAS Architecture and Platform organization sits at the intersection of numerous technologies, platforms, and solutions that enable this growth.
Bellevue is a key technology hub for Visa, driving innovation, generative AI, and platform modernization initiatives.
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.
Visa is an EEO Employer
If you thrive on rapid growth and enjoy working alongside positive, driven teammates, you’ll feel right at home here.
Help us to uplift everyone, everywhere.
Whether you’re starting your career, pushing your capabilities or are a seasoned professional, learn how we can partner to reimagine the world.
Introduce yourself to our recruiters and we'll get in touch if there's a role that seems like a good match.
At Visa, we are driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
Our evolving technology keeps us at the heart of the digital economy, connecting people to 80+ million businesses worldwide.
Backed by a resilient, proven model, our expanding network fuels growth—for Visa and for your career.
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Equal Opportunity

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protect veteran status.
Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.