Common Purpose, Uncommon Opportunity. Everyone at Visa works with one goal in mind – making sure that Visa is the best way to pay and be paid, for everyone everywhere. This is our global vision and the common purpose that unites the entire Visa team. As a global payments technology company, tech is at the heart of what we do: Our VisaNet network processes over 13,000 transactions per second for people and businesses around the world, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks. We are also global advocates for financial inclusion, working with partners around the world to help those who lack access to financial services join the global economy. Visa’s sponsorships, including the Olympics and FIFA™ World Cup, celebrate teamwork, diversity, and excellence throughout the world. If you have a passion to make a difference in the lives of people around the world, Visa offers an uncommon opportunity to build a strong, thriving career. Visa is fueled by our team of talented employees who continuously raise the bar on delivering the convenience and security of digital currency to people all over the world. Join our team and find out how Visa is everywhere you want to be.

The Staff Software Engineer will be team's .NET technical lead in our Austin, TX office. You will be expected to be a .NET authority within the Specialized Systems' DevOps team and will be fully responsible for both service delivery and operational excellence of services built on .NET technologies.

- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to junior team members
- Set and update design and coding methodologies
- Lead agile end-to-end development process within the construct of DevOps practices and methodology:
- Support agile ceremonies: sprint planning, daily stand ups, sprint review and sprint retrospective
- Provide technical insights to support release planning, including user stories breakdown, tasks assignment, and backlog grooming, through elicitation and clarifications of user stories and requirements with business partners and communication of IT dependencies
- Adapt to standard methodologies and lessons learned from sprint execution to improve team velocity
- Design and develop services that are:
- Scalable, resilient, secured and decoupled;
- Able to detect and alert when functional or non-functional production errors occur;
- Able to gather and persist behavioral and performance metrics; and
- Deliver optimal customer experience
- Review work performed by other team members to ensure that they adhere to standard methodologies
- Perform quality assurance testing inclusive of unit, systems, integration and regression testing, and support the development of automated test scripts to be used to automate regression testing
- Support users during their user acceptance verification
- Deploy tested improvements or new services to certification and production environments with rollback strategies defined.
- Lead operational excellence for .NET services:
- Provide level 2 and 3 support to resolve incidents according to committed service level agreement
- Provide on call support during off work hours on weekdays, weekends and holidays on a need basis, so that critical and high priority incidents are resolved
- Provide fixes to problem tickets that require root cause resolution
- Review incident resolution and problem ticket fixes performed by team members
- Actively reduce technical debt by implementing service design and code changes
- Keep system documentation updated
- Provide strong communication to keep project team and partners up to date
- Design and improve internal development methodologies utilizing .NET and supporting technologies
- Actively collaborate within Client Systems, as well as with all other IT teams and business users located worldwide in various time-zones to fulfill the above responsibilities
- Identify and utilize standard methodologies in the industry to improve efficient and elegant solutions while minimizing cost
 

- Bachelor degree in Information Technology, or equivalent
- 8 years' development and support experience in .NET technologies
- Deep understanding and experience in the following frameworks and technologies:
- .NET framework
- ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC
- WCF service
- Microsoft SSIS
- SOAP and RESTful web services
- SQL Queries and Stored procedures for relational database, preferably Microsoft SQL Server
- Software design patterns
- Experience with performance tuning and automated unit testing
- 5 years development experience in systems that:
- Interface with smart card personalization and production software and hardware
- Comply with PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards)
- 5 years development experience in cryptography using .NET framework
- 5 years of experience in UML design methodologies
- 2 years of experience as a .NET technical lead
- CSCIP/Payments certification is preferred
- Experience in agile methodology is preferred
- Excellent oral and written English communication skills
- Excellent analytical skills

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

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