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.

Cloud Platform & Infrastructure Automation Team is responsible for the design, architecture and development of the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform within Visa. The team is also chartered with building the next generation Application Management, Delivery and Validation Platform. Our mission is to make it easy for developers & infrastructure teams to provision environments (DEV, TEST & Prod), deploy services, monitor and auto scale applications with the highest level of reliability, availability, scale and security.

Selected candidate will be leading one of the most talented team of software engineers in Visa building software defined infrastructure and application delivery platforms. You will also have an opportunity to make a large impact across Visa on how systems/applications are built and delivered. We build and support a variety of technologies that span multiple continents, deploying code dozens of times each day.

We are looking for a talented and versatile Engineering Director to join our team! Senior Engineering Managers with significant experience in building cloud based platforms either in public or private cloud domains are preferred. We prefer candidates who have hands on design/coding skills for this role. You must have previous background in building and managing highly engaged teams.You will be leading a world class software engineering team and will be responsible for designing, architecting and building state-of-the art private cloud software that will help Visa improve time to market and reduce infrastructure and development cost. 

Roles & Responsibilities (Your role @VISA)

• Provide leadership and oversight to a team of software engineers building solutions and capabilities at scale and high engineering and quality standards.
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to understand business problems and then design and develop required solutions.
• Partner with architects to ensure developed solutions adhere to established best patterns and our architectural target state.
  
• Provide technical thought leadership towards solving problems for the team. 
  
• Drive the adoption of key engineering best practices to improve quality and reliability of team's deliverables. 
  
• Responsible for keeping the team engaged, motivated and operating with a high execution velocity. 
  
• Responsible for coaching and mentoring of direct reports.
  

• Bachelors or Master's Degree, preferably in Computer Science with 12+ years of experience
• Strong software product development background with a passion for building cloud based applications with high levels of reliability, availability and security
  
• Very good understanding of Enterprise Application Lifecycle Management needs.
  
• Significant experience building enterprise class applications using Java/J2EE technologies and/or Mean Stack 
• Experience building Enterprise Restful web services 
• Ability to guide user interface development teams with AngularJS or ReactJS would be plus
• Strong understanding of architecture patterns and operational characteristics of highly available and scalable applications.   
  
• Excellent knowledge of core engineering best practices and passion to implement these across teams. 
  
• Strong leadership qualities and organizational skills as well as the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities. 
  
• 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. 
  

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