Vice President, Engineering

Visa•Foster City, CA

2d•$261,900 - $458,000•Onsite

About The Position

Visa is seeking a seasoned and highly motivated leader in the Commercial and Money Movement Solutions Product Development (CMS PD) group in the role Vice President, Engineering reporting to Senior Vice President, CMS PD. Commercial and Money Movement Solutions (CMS) is a strategic growth pillar for Visa that will deliver significant revenue for the company over the coming years. CMS is focused on driving Visa’s strategy to expand beyond core Consumer to Business (C2B) payments into broader money movement flows across individuals, businesses, and governments. The CMS PD team within Visa Technology is chartered with building the platforms and product capabilities that will directly enable the growth aspirations of our CMS business. As Vice President Engineering in CMS PD, you will be a key leader in our organization chartered to infuse next generation thinking into product development practices, anticipate and leverage emerging technologies for strategic advantage, and drive innovation initiatives to deliver a highly differentiated product offering to our clients. Functionally, the role will be responsible for defining and executing on the technology strategy for Commercial Data Products, B2B Agentic Commerce and Agent driven pre and post transaction value added solutions. This role will drive the evolution of the commercial data platform that ingests and transforms commercial transaction, settlement and enhanced data to deliver comprehensive reconciliation information and business insights for clients. This role will also be responsible for driving our agent driven solutions in the end-to-end B2B commerce, enabling secure, trusted, and intelligent transaction outcomes across Visa’s commercial network. This leader will operate at the intersection of: data platforms and network-level signals core commercial payment and commerce infrastructure AI-driven decisioning and automation systems

Requirements

12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 8 years of work experience with a PhD
Bachelors or Masters with a STEM major (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math).
15+ years relevant work experience; 10+ years of technical leadership experience and 10+ years of people management experience.
Experience in leading large, global software engineering technology teams of 100+ across multiple time zones and cultures.
Experience in design, architecture, and engineering of highly available, secure, resilient, and scalable systems.
Experience in implementing cloud-native architectures and design patterns.
Excellent knowledge of core engineering best practices and the ability to implement these across the team.
Strong knowledge of SDLC principles and practices.
Experience working in an Agile based product development setup and matrixed organizations.
Demonstrated experience in change management concerning the adoption of modern & innovative technologies.
Experience in crafting a collaborative and innovative work culture that encourages risk-taking and fosters excellence.
An ability to combine analytical reasoning, creativity, and judgment in handling complex matters, with multiple initiatives going on simultaneously.
Demonstrated ability to recruit, grow, nurture, retain, and lead high-caliber technical talent.
Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills - In particular, a demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels internally and externally as needed to support the strategic goals.
Deep Payments industry knowledge highly desired.

Responsibilities

Partner with business counterparts to develop multi-year strategic outlook plans for the product vertical.
Define technology strategy for your product vertical in alignment with established business objectives.
Provide leadership and oversight to a large team (200+) of technology leaders and developers implementing highly scalable, low-latency, high-throughput software systems that have five 9s plus availability.
Own the planning, design, and delivery of all product development roadmap items for the vertical.
Establish a culture of engineering excellence with focus on delivering high quality products to production.
Ensure security and operational posture of the platform meets the highest standards.
Hire top engineering leaders and talent; provide mentoring, coaching and guidance to your staff.
Drive developer productivity through adoption of innovative technologies/tools and engineering fundamentals & best practices.
Establishing a culture that values ownership, accountability and creates an environment that enables innovation and continuous improvement.
Represent technology in relevant board and regulatory engagements.