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About the Role

Leads software development teams in delivering secure, scalable, high-quality fintech applications and platforms. Oversees the full software development lifecycle, ensuring delivery meets business priorities, regulatory requirements, and ethical standards. Drives agile and DevSecOps practices, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and continuous improvement. Ensures development work integrates responsibly with AI/ML capabilities, adhering to data governance, model explainability, and financial regulatory compliance. Acts as a leader for engineering teams, removing blockers, enabling productivity, and fostering an inclusive, high-performance culture. Coaches and develops engineers to adapt to evolving tools, frameworks, and AI-driven workflows. Partners closely with product managers, QA, risk, compliance, and security functions. May spend up to 50–65% of time in hands-on coding, code reviews, and technical prototyping.

Responsibilities

Monitors throughput across multiple teams to determine capacity and oversees partnerships with stakeholders to define user requirements for complex projects.
Guides requirements gathering, feedback incorporation, and actionable metrics to assess delivery feasibility and reviews gaps in acceptance criteria.
Oversees translation of user requirements into system designs, ensuring alignment with business strategy and formalizing best practices.
Leads system architecture discussions, interprets findings from investigations, and owns design decisions for complex products.
Oversees project plans, release plans, and estimation processes, addressing escalated issues and removing technical obstacles.
Develops standards for code quality, security, and maintainability; updates security assessment processes to ensure code is free from threats.
Shapes best practices for debugging, automation, and code review across multiple products and teams.
Provides guidance on test planning, prioritizes tests, and ensures expected testing results across product features.
Leads system monitoring efforts, sets data analysis standards, and aligns project strategy for long-term value.
Provides technical expertise to resolve major incidents, ensures teams have resources to respond to incidents, and shares learnings to prevent recurrence.
Manages team decisions around developer tools, oversees selection and enhancement of tools, and shares best practices for complex products.
Identifies and develops engineering talent, ensures team skills support business goals, and disseminates knowledge to improve product reliability and performance.

Requirements

10+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.
Experience in leading software engineering teams in fintech, payments, or banking technologies/software systems.
Experience in developing and/or implementing web-based or mobile applications.
Experience in a leadership role with direct reports.
Experience in requirements gathering, system design, and architecture for complex software solutions.
Experience in agile delivery management and DevSecOps practices.
Experience in code development, review, and debugging for enterprise-scale applications.
Experience in test planning, execution, and automation.
Experience in incident response and resolution for software engineering teams.
Experience in talent management, coaching, and engineering development.
Experience in securities, payments, and banking technologies.
Experience building and testing enterprise-scale web services.
Experience in product development and working on internal or client-facing project or technical teams.
Digital fluency, including the ability to work with emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot) to support everyday work.

Skills

Fintech
Payments
Banking technologies
Web-based applications
Mobile applications
Agile delivery management
DevSecOps practices
Code development
Code review
Debugging
Test planning
Test execution
Test automation
Incident response
Incident resolution
Talent management
Coaching
Engineering development
Web services
Product development
Generative AI tools

Location

Office setting

Work Type

Hybrid (at least 3 days in office)

Experience Level

10+ years of relevant work experience
13+ years of relevant work experience

Education Level

Bachelors degree

Salary/Compensations

$186,800.00 to $299,200.00 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.

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.