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The Service Design Solution Architect is responsible for delivering critical architectural blueprints and coordinating end-to-end provisioning processes. The Service Design Solution Architect contributes to best practices in the alignment of logical and physical architecture to ensure service resiliency, performance, scalability, effectiveness and efficiency.

Job Scope

This role is a recognized expert within Visa responsible for contributing to the development of functional strategy of Service Design as a Solution Architect. This is an individual contributor role responsible for solving
unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business.

Responsibilities

• You'll be responsible for for analyzing and translating business information and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint that outlines solutions to achieve business objectives
• You'll work with application and infrastructure teams to review or produce optimal, high level designs
• You'll conduct proof-of-concept projects to validate new feature sets and 3rd party technologies
  
• You will analyze the current architecture to identify weaknesses and develop opportunities for
  improvement such as improving business processes, expanding capacity,reducing cost and increasing effectiveness

Because you already have the ability to apply multiple technical solutions to business problems you will also:

• Document all solution architecture design and analysis work
  
• Interface with internal IT management leadership, technical leadership and external requestors as a strategic value-add point to improve IT for completeness, consistency, availability, satisfaction, and to deliver quality services
  
• Establish system requirements, designs, builds, and manage critical infrastructure deliverables while driving Technology Standards
• Utilize data-driven approaches and methodologies to reduce IT process gaps and enhance process effectiveness through automation
  
• Monitor the processes, policies, procedures and standards applicability, effectiveness and efficiency
  
• Ability to review complex processes, manage customer service and provide regular technical reports both verbal and statistical showing status of ongoing projects and goals

Required skills/experience

• Minimum 10 years of experience in a Software Development or Infrastructure Engineering role for Platform Services with a preference for 4 years in an Architectural role managing Technology Standards
• Bachelor’s in Engineering or Computer Science with relevant industry experience
• Preference Software development background in Java, .Net, & Web technologies supporting end user interface development
• Preference for systems administration or engineering
  
• Understanding of Application Architecture is highly preferable
• Proven Ability to develop detailed solution designs. Understands Architecture Constructs - (Architecture & Design patterns, protocols SOAP, REST etc.), Development Methodologies (Agile, Waterfall)
• Demonstrable ability to deliver results with large-scale & cross-functional teams leveraging efficient processes via automation
• Superior analytical and problem solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor; including financial modeling skills
• Expertise in information technology industry with HA & High Volume processing environments
• Superior communication (written/verbal), presentation, and facilitation skills
• Familiar with ITIL concepts; especially Service Design and Service Orientation
  

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.