Director, Software Engineering

Visa•Bellevue, WA

13h•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Director of Engineering for a strategy-and-operations team that drives end‑to‑end delivery excellence across Acceptance Solutions within Value Added Services team at VISA , you will lead multiple engineering teams building enterprise‑scale platforms that improve engineering execution, operational decision‑making, and delivery safety. Your teams will develop systems that aggregate data, apply policy and intelligence, and enable both humans and automation to make better decisions at scale. This role operates at the intersection of platform engineering, automation, governance, and developer experience, ensuring solutions are trusted, explainable, and scalable across regions and portfolios. It is a hands‑on leadership role at the architectural level, with accountability for both technical direction and people leadership.

Requirements

10+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience
Strategic leadership with a proven ability to manage multiple teams and large-scale programs
Deep technical expertise in modern architectures (microservices, cloud-native), security engineering, and API platforms
Strong understanding of agile methodologies and software development lifecycle principles
Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive organizational change
Experience balancing hands-on technical involvement with leadership responsibilities
Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills

Nice To Haves

12 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
Solid understanding of Large Language Models, Generative AI systems and applications.
Background in developing and deploying AIML platforms and applications in on premises and public cloud infrastructure.
Have prior hands-on experience using languages such as Python, Go, Java, Python, Rust. Strong on coding and code reviews.
Experience in leading teams that have built full stack applications from the ground-up using distributed high performance and scalable technologies such as K8s, Docker, Ray, Airflow, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka and so on.
Experience in leading teams that have built cloud platform solutions using AWS, Azure and GCP for high performance real time AIML applications
Experience in DevSecOps world - Github/Git, CI/CD Pipelines, Jenkins, Ansible, Shell Scripts, Security Tools, Observability, Alerting, IaC etc.
Payments industry experience is a plus

Responsibilities

Lead multiple engineering teams with a hands-on coding approach
Provide architectural leadership through design reviews, technical trade‑off decisions, and validation of key proof‑of‑concepts
Partner closely with Product, Architecture, Security, SRE, and Compliance leaders to define roadmaps and ensure platforms support reliability, risk reduction, and developer trust
Drive adoption of AI/ML and GenAI capabilities in production systems, with an emphasis on explainability, auditability, and operational confidence
Establish engineering standards that prioritize automation, quality, and predictable delivery at scale