Lead Systems Architect - Java, API, Microservices

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

As the Lead System Architect, you will lead and manage a variety of projects in the Platform Products Technology (PPT) group. In this role, you will introduce new services, technologies, and technical solutions to Visa infrastructure to deliver innovative solutions.

You will drive technical solutions for large scale, always available, secure, fast and international ready solutions that will have direct impact on the landscape of the payment industry for generations to come. 

Your solutions, in most cases, will be used by millions of people worldwide every minute of the day.  You have the opportunity to transform technologies like mobile, web, risk authentication, distributed computing and offers platforms to create seamless, fast, reliable and user-friendly payment solutions. You will have the opportunity to propose, not only technical, but also new business models.

You will, in many cases, interact with different stake holders, senior executives, external parties like system integrators, wallet providers, merchants, issuers and senior product regional managers. You will propose new innovative solutions, updates to existing solutions, negotiate alternative options, build technical and release roadmaps. 

You will be integral part of the PPT Architecture Team and contribute to defining a long-term architecture that delivers on the organizational vision for scalability, agility, security, reusability, and high availability across Visa's global infrastructure.

You will be working on the new and innovative solutions for providing business platforms to consumers and business across globe like Click to Pay, Digital Credentials, Crypto Platforms etc. At times, you are going to work with the large-scale businesses.

This role will have strong emphasis on the user and consumer space and the consumer interaction through Web, Mobile and IoT devices. 

Key responsibilities include

• Identify appropriate technical solutions and/or products and designs that will best prepare the company to meet future business objectives.
• Design the appropriate solution that is based on the business requirements.
• Propose new solutions to meet the fast-changing payments industry.
• Document the design in the form of a conceptual approach which will be used as the basis for sizing and the creation of detailed design artifacts.
• Perform proofs of concept (PoCs) and other technical evaluations of technologies, designs, and solutions.
• Work with engineering professionals, architects and others within Visa to ensure that the solution will scale appropriately while ensuring that what is implemented is a cost-effective solution.
• Manage the creation of detail design and use case documents.
• Work with developers and manage them (from a technical perspective) during project construction.
• 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 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 14+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 14+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 14 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
• Bachelor's(Master's) Degree in Computer Science or other technology field. Typically requires 12+ years of relevant experience in delivering enterprise class, mission critical, commercial and scalable products, at least 4 of which were in the role of an architect or a lead developer.
• Very strong interpersonal, facilitation, team building and leadership skills along with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise way, ability to influence and develop relationships with key partners
• Broad knowledge of contemporary tech stacks (both server side and client side)
• Ability to quickly churn proof of concepts prototypes as needed to demonstrate new ideas or approaches.
• Working knowledge of web services standards and related technologies
•  Extensive experience in API design and in system and component design
• Expertise in Java and/or equivalent language stack
• Payment Domain experience would be a plus.

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.