Lead Systems Architect - Data Architecture (Hybrid/ Remote)

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

As the Lead Systems Architect, you will spearhead the design of a variety of projects in the Visa Digital and Developer Platform (DDP) group. You will be a collaborator who will be depended on by delivery and execution teams to offer technical guidance and solution designs. In this role, you will have the opportunity to introduce new services that enhance existing products or enable new products, recommend and evangelize new technologies that will improve the status quo, offer technical solutions to Visa infrastructure that drives innovation when delivered and perform at a six 9s level.

You will drive technical solutions that have a direct impact on the payment industry. The solutions you design will be large scale, always available, secure, fast, accessible, and globally ready with an impact measured in future years.

Your solutions will be used by millions of people worldwide every minute of the day.  As the Lead Systems Architect, you will have the opportunity to bring your creative curiosity and technology experience to work every day and help build platforms and solutions that are consumed across digital platforms to create seamless, fast, reliable and user-friendly experiences.

You will interact with organizational stake holders such as senior executives, senior product managers, and external partners like fortune 100 system integrators, wallet providers, and banks. You will have the opportunity to build technical solutions and influence release roadmaps.

You will be an integral part of the DDP Architecture Team and have the opportunity to build the Long-Term Architecture that delivers on the organizational vision for consistency, quality, developer productivity, security, reusability, and availability across Visa's global infrastructure.

The successful candidate to fill this role will have a strong influence new payment flows design including P2P, B2B, B2C, and G2C.

Essential Functions:

• Deliver enterprise solution at scale for Digital Products and deliver the next generation of payments. 
• Identify appropriate technical solutions and/or products and designs that will best prepare the company to meet present and future business objectives.
• Design the most appropriate solution with well understood trade-offs that meet the business requirements.
• Propose new solutions to meet the fast-changing payments industry landscape.
• Document the solution designs clearly and with enough details so delivery and execution teams can size the effort.
• Perform proof of concept to evaluate new and emerging technologies, design patterns, and proposed solutions.
• Work with engineering professionals, fellow software architects, and others within Visa to ensure that proposed solutions will scale appropriately and that the implementation will be a cost-effective solution.
• Manage the creation of several artifacts relating to the detail design and use cases that are solved for.
• Collaborate with software engineers and provide technical guidance during the construction phase of a project.
• Continue to learn about the payments industry and the factors impacting the payments industry.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
• 10 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
• Must have strong experience programming in Java.
• Must have strong experience in API design and in system and component design.
• Must have strong experience in Micro Services, Service Mesh, Containers, DevOps is a big plus.
• Must have strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal). Should be comfortable facilitating multi-team activities.
• Must have strong leadership skills and comfortable presenting complex ideas to small and large groups in a clear and concise way. Candidate should be confident in their ability to influence and develop relationships with key partners.
• Experience in delivering enterprise-class, mission-critical, commercial, and scalable products, at least 3 years of which were in the role of an architect or a lead developer.
• Experience in Security: Web and backend (especially B2B security – authentication, authorization and encryption)
• Experience with web services standards and related technologies (HTTP(s), REST, JSON).

Preferred Qualifications:
• Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Computer Science or other technology field, Typically requires 15-17 years of experience.
• Experience working with a variety of Application Servers and Databases such as Tomcat and Oracle. Other technologies such as MongoDB or Cassandra is a plus.
• Digital wallet experience is a plus.
• Experience in Web Application Development is a plus.
• Experience in user space: user enrollment, user authentication, user authorization, user preferences … etc. is a plus.
• Crypto Currency experience is a plus.
• Experience in Mobile Application Development (iOS and Android) is a plus

Additional Information

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees and visitors. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the U.S. are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.

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.