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Director Software Engineering Machine Learning and Statistical

Visa
Austin, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 2/22/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/11/2025

Payments Industry is a very exciting and fastdeveloping area with lot of new and innovative solutions coming to market. With strong demand for new solutions in this space it promises to be an exciting area of innovation. VISA is a strong leader in the payment industry and is rapidly transitioning into a technology company with significant investments in this area.

If you want to be in the exciting payment space learn fast and make big impacts Ecosystem & Operational Risk technology which is part of Visas ValueAdded Services business unit is an ideal place for you!

In Ecosystem & Operational Risk (EOR) technology group the Payment Fraud Disruption team is responsible for building critical risk and fraud detection and prevention applications and services at Visa. This includes idea generation architecture design development and testing of products applications and services that provide Visa clients with solutions to detect prevent and mitigate fraud for Visa and Visa client payment systems.

We are in search of inquisitive creative and skillful technologists to join our ranks. We are currently looking for a Director of Software Engineering who will take the lead and manage several strategic initiatives within our organization.

The right candidate will possess strong software engineering background with demonstrated leadership experience in driving technical architecture design and delivery of products and services that have created business value and delivered impact within the payments or payments risk domain or similar industries.

This position is ideal for an experienced engineering leader who is passionate about collaborating with business and technology partners and engineers to solve challenging business problems. You will be a key driver in the effort to define the shared strategic vision for the Payment Fraud Disruption platform and defining tools and services that safeguard Visas payment systems.

Essential Functions

  • Drive the design implementation and deployment of AI / ML centric secure reliable robust and interoperable products.
  • Drive excellence in engineering practices across the SSDLC.
  • Drive adoption of Gen AI across the portfolio for client innovation business productivity and developer productivity.
  • Partner with Product teams on requirements and prioritization. Influence product strategy and roadmap.
  • Lead a multidisciplinary team of software developers data engineers AI & ML experts test engineers release engineers.
  • Develop and nurture the engineering team by hiring critical talent driving retention motivating and mentoring staff and driving career growth for team members. Build an inclusive team culture and a culture of ownership and accountability.
  • Drive strategic impact for EOR by delivering fitforpurpose products with an accelerated time to market.
  • Ensure strong program management and governance practices for your team.
  • Forge strong partnerships with key stakeholders across Technology & Business.
  • Role model Visa Leadership Principles (VLPs).

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 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.

Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications :

  • 10 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree OR 13 years of relevant work experience
  • Preferred Qualifications :

  • 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 810 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD
  • Experience leading product development & delivery of AI / ML solutions applied to realworld problems
  • Experience leading design and development of missioncritical secure reliable systems
  • Experience leading delivery across multiple technologies : Python Java / J2EE Apache Kafka Apache Flink Hive MySQL Hadoop Spark Scala design patterns test automation frameworks
  • Experience leading delivery of streaming analytics platforms
  • Excellent understanding of algorithms and data structures
  • Excellent problem solving and analytics skills. Capable of forming and advocating an independent viewpoint
  • Strong experience with agile methodologies
  • Excel in partnering with Product leaders and technical product managers on requirements workshops helping define joint product / technology roadmaps & driving prioritization
  • Experience driving continuous improvements to processes / tools for better developer efficiency and productivity
  • Demonstrated ability to drive measurable improvements across engineering delivery and performance metrics
  • Demonstrated success in leading high performing multidisciplinary and geographically distributed  engineering teams. Demonstrated ability to hire develop and retain highcaliber talent
  • Must demonstrate longerterm strategic thinking and staying abreast with latest technologies to assess whats possible technically
  • Strong collaboration and effective communication with focus on winwin outcomes
  • Additional Information :

    Work Hours : Varies upon the needs of the department.

    Travel Requirements : This position requires travel 510% 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 176400.00 to 256000.00 USD which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on jobrelated 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.

    Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.

    Remote Work : Employment Type :

    Fulltime

    Key Skills

    Go,Lean,Management Experience,React,Node.js,Operations Management,Project Management,Research & Development,Software Development,Team Management,GraphQL,Leadership Experience

    Vacancy : 1

    Salary : $176,400 - $256,000

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