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Chief Systems Architect

Visa

Chief Systems Architect

austin, TX
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    As a Chief Architect for Architecture team, you provide strategic architecture leadership to project architects and your product partners on large and complex projects for merchant payment management solutions. You will work along side a team of Lead and Chief Architects and also lead the Architecture requirements and strategy for Risk, Data and Analytics domain. You understand the business imperatives tied to these strategic projects. You provide technology leadership and are the technical expert on strategic projects, drive the release strategy and guide the delivery of strategic projects aligned to business strategy on innovative payment acceptance, integrated commerce management, powerful risk management and marketing tools. You maintain awareness of dependencies between projects and delivery vision, while ensuring engineering excellence to the six nines. You build the strategy for your teams to architect, design and deliver the next wave of enterprise FinTech innovation.

    ** Essential Functions**

    • Create, review and approve designs in the form of a Technical Architecture Design, which will be used as the basis for sizing and creation of low level detailed designs.

    • Participate in and help form product and technology strategy. Collaboration, co-ordination, and strong, creative problem solving skills are necessary to manage and advance new and existing opportunities across the business.

    • Participate in and help form the definition of the system, technical, application and deployment architectures for major areas of development and recommend course of action to maintain cost effectiveness and competitiveness for multiple products and platforms.

    • Research, perform proofs of concept (PoCs) and implement best practice frameworks and capability models that will control costs, provide higher quality deliverables, and increase system reliability.

    • Research and stay current on the latest technology infrastructure and processes in the payment acceptance and payment industry.

    • Collaborate with other architecture teams and leaders across Visa technology organizations, for example, acceptance, risk, client boarding and management, etc.

    • Establish, maintain, and govern software development patterns and good practice guidelines and principles.

    • Mentors and builds world-class high-performing engineering teams.

    • Apply architecture best practices that helps increase execution velocity.

    • Develop architectures that are inherently secure, robust, scalable, modular, API-centric and global.

    • Influence technology selection for the enterprise.

    • Contribute to key Visa technology initiatives.

    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

    Qualifications

    Basic Qualification
    • 12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 9 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience.

    Preferred Qualifications

    • 12+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience
    • At least 5 years in the role of engineering lead or architect.
    Preferred Qualifications
    • Demonstrable experience in delivering enterprise, mission-critical, and scalable products, including utilizing data driver frameworks.
    • Possesses a demonstrably deep understanding of different integration patterns.
    • Continuous delivery and Dev Ops experience - infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, auditing and security implementation and practices.
    • Demonstrable experience in designing solutions utilizing RDBMS (Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server, etc.). and NoSQL data stores (e.g. HBASE and Cassandra).
    • Experience in Micro Services, Service Mesh, Containerization and Container Orchestration (Kubernettes) is a big plus.
    • Demosstrable experience working with Payments, particularly Merchant Payment Acceptance.
    • Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal). Should be comfortable facilitating multi-team activities.
    • 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 Software Security: Web, Mobile and business to consumer, business to business authentication, authorization and encryption.

    Additional Information

    ** 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.

    U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 164,800.00 to 214,200.00 USD, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. 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.

  • Industry
    Financial Services