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About the Role

The Sr. Director role in Global Network Engineering is responsible for the strategy, architecture, technology selection, software development, and evolution of the infrastructure-as-code (IaC) platform supporting Visa’s networking portfolio. This includes defining configuration generation and management frameworks, leading the IaC platform development team, and collaborating with Engineering, Operations, Cybersecurity, and Client Services. The IaC platform is critical for automating workflows, enabling self-service, and supporting GenAI and agentic AI adoption.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute platform engineering and network automation strategies and roadmaps.
• Write code and lead a geographically distributed software engineering and DevOps team for a mission-critical IaC platform.
• Function as the executive leader for network automation, platform engineering, and IaC initiatives.
• Lead the evaluation, selection, and deployment of new technologies and vendors.
• Serve as a technical leader for software-driven network automation environments.
• Set technical direction for architecture, engineering, and delivery of complex automation solutions.
• Lead cross-functional and external collaboration projects.
• Drive adoption of industry best practices for software engineering, code quality, security, performance monitoring, reliability engineering, and platform operations.
• Establish and enforce robust software development processes.
• Ensure change management and compliance with information security standards.
• Lead GenAI adoption and evolve the IaC platform for agentic AI use cases.
• Inspire, mentor, and lead high-performing teams.
• Set clear priorities and goals (OKRs) and foster a culture of innovation, service reliability, engineering excellence, and accountability.
• Monitor and evaluate team performance and coach for growth.
• Build strong relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, and operations teams.

Requirements

• 12+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience.
• 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g., Master's, MBA, JD, or MD), or PhD with 9+ years of experience.
• Experience leading geographically distributed software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or network engineering teams.
• Demonstrated success architecting, building, and operating enterprise-scale software platforms, automation systems, developer infrastructure, or IaC solutions.
• Experience with network telemetry systems, time-series databases, real-time analytics, and AI/ML-driven operational insights.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (Ansible, Terraform, etc.).
• Experience mentoring and developing software engineers, platform engineers, DevOps engineers, and network specialists.
• Metrics-driven management approach with a focus on service reliability, scalability, and platform performance.
• Strong product management skills, including requirements gathering, roadmap development, stakeholder management, and solution design.
• Experience managing mission-critical infrastructure and delivering exceptional reliability in large-scale production environments.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to drive consensus across diverse, global technology teams.
• Sound judgment, high ethical standards, and the ability to work effectively at all organizational levels.

Skills

• Large-scale software engineering leadership
• Platform engineering leadership
• DevOps leadership
• Network engineering leadership
• Networking technologies and routing protocols (OSPF, BGP, EIGRP)
• SNMP
• Load balancing
• Network configuration and monitoring systems
• Software development (Python, SQL, modern web technologies, REST APIs, distributed systems architecture)
• Time-series databases (InfluxDB, Prometheus)
• Containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm)
• Data storage technologies (Redis, MongoDB, NoSQL databases)
• ML/AI and GenAI techniques for operational and infrastructure data
• Production-grade automation platforms and software systems
• CI/CD pipelines
• Coding standards
• Software quality frameworks
• Unit testing
• Code coverage
• Test-driven development
• Analytical skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Systems architecture skills
• Communication and presentation skills
• Collaboration skills

Location

• Office setting

Work Type

• Full-time
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Sr. Director
• 12+ years
• 15+ years
• 9+ years

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree
• Advanced Degree (e.g., Master's, MBA, JD, or MD)
• PhD

Salary/Compensations

• $194,700 to $400,900 USD per year
• $194,700 to $340,800 USD per year (Colorado)

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 across more than 200 countries and territories.
• Dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
• Opportunity to create impact at scale, tackle meaningful challenges, and grow skills.

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.