Senior Solutions Architect - Level 5

  • Full-time

Company Description

Fascinated by the future and captivated by technology?

Smart, driven and want to make a difference in the world?

You’ll fit right in.

Join a diverse team at Visa, where your individuality fits right in. We can provide the opportunity to shape the payments experience globally. Together, let’s transform the way the world pays.

Think you know us?

Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable and secure digital payment network that enables individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

Individuality fuels our brand and our global team – we’re proud that we are a talented team of 15,000 individuals with unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Therefore, we understand that you are much more than your day job. We encourage quality of life outside of the office, whether it’s taking advantage of agile work schedules or our wellness programs, Visa respects and encourages meaningful work/life balance for everyone. In addition, we offer market leading salary and have a fantastic benefits offering.

So, if you’re not satisfied with the status quo, we can satisfy your desire to explore new territory, giving you the runway to really make an impact, whilst connecting you with teams around the world in a truly inclusive culture that celebrates our uniqueness.

Job Description

If you think you could support Visa as a Senior Solutions Architect, we want to hear from you – together, let’s make Visa a great place to work.

What’s it all about?

Cybersecurity is at the beating heart of our business. Our diligence and expertise is what makes us the undisputed leader in electronic payments.  We’ve made it our priority to create a top-tier Security Architecture team, poised to defend us against any potential cyber threats.  

We’re looking for those of you who are inherently driven and fascinated by the art and science of cyber defence. We’ll equip you with the very best tools and tech so that you can deliver top notch results. 

Continuous self-development underpins job fulfilment at Visa. As Senior Solutions Architect, you’ll be enthused by working on a wide-range of enterprise and customer-facing Identity and Access Management projects, as well as the chance to work with top notch professionals to learn with and from.

What we expect of you, day to day.

The Senior Solutions Architect will work as a member of the Global Cybersecurity organization – Security Architecture team, which is focused on improving technology and architecture decision-making through collaboration with management, staff and customers on technology strategy, enterprise architecture, and investments in strategic security technology.

The individual, with a broad cybersecurity plus systems and network architecture knowledge and experience, will provide overall direction, lifecycle management and leadership for security architecture and technology. The individual will perform a lead role in various critical initiatives through the identification, analysis, evaluation, lifecycle management and adoption of security architectures and technologies. The Senior Solutions Architect will work closely with other security functions and will provide guidance to ensure that there is coordination with their activities in technology choices. In addition, the Senior Solutions Architect will be involved with education and mentorship, supporting the delivery framework, development of technical architecture documentation, and advanced topics research.

  • Leading and contributing to the security posture of Visa’s networks and systems, data centre infrastructures, cloud architectures and solutions
  • Developing, contributing and management of Security Architecture Specifications, Security Architecture Analysis, Threat-Modelling, Security Requirements, Security Standards and Design Patterns, Reference Architectures, Security Strategies and Roadmaps
  • Applying security design principles to develop security solutions architectures
  • Providing strategic points of view for security solutions and security industry events
  • Developing and/or carrying out the strategic direction of security projects to enable execution of the information security strategy
  • Developing security solutions to enable execution of the long-term security architecture
  • Driving security technologies evaluations and proof-of-concepts
  • Building strong cross-organizational relationships and effectively influencing staff across the IT organization and product groups
  • Managing the lifecycle of security technologies
  • Working closely with the other technology architects to ensure that security is properly embedded in their technology domains architectures
  • Evaluating and assessing risk as part of lifecycle management
  • Staying current with security technologies and making recommendations for use based on business value
  • Advising leadership on Cybersecurity issues, systems, processes, products, and services.
  • Maintaining oversight of the design and implementation of IT systems to ensure appropriate and effective security controls are included.
  • Serving as a Cybersecurity expert to contribute to the definition of overall IT architecture.

Qualifications

What we’re after…

  • Significant Cybersecurity, Architecture and Design experience in Networks, Data Centre Systems, and Cloud Infrastructure and Platforms (IaaS security, PaaS security)
  • Strong experience in threat-modelling of complex systems
  • Experience in delivering comprehensive architecture specifications for complex security solutions
  • Experience with creating technical documentation: product documentation, technology and systems/network architecture, and technical whitepapers.
  • Strong working experience with the following security technologies: Firewalls, Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems, Vulnerability Scanning, WAF, Wireless LAN, NAC, DLP, DDoS Mitigation, WAN security, SIEM, Content Filtering, Cloud Security gateways, Secure Proxies, SSL crypto solutions
  • Experience with open source based security technologies
  • Strong knowledge and working experience with SDN (Software-Defined Networking), NFV (Network Function Virtualization), and network virtualization/overlays
  • Strong hands on cloud architecture, with knowledge and working experience in: OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, Server Virtualization hypervisors (KVM, Xen, Hyper-V, VSphere), Linux Containers technologies (Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes), and distributed computing
  • Strong expertise and experience with Linux and Linux security
  • Programming/coding and DevOps experience is a plus (Python, Ansible, Chef)
  • Solid understanding of and ability to speak authoritatively to security principles in areas such as network, systems, virtualization, cloud technologies, access control.
  • Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues at Expert level.
  • Experience integrating multiple vendor products
  • Preferred certifications include: CISSP, OpenStack Certification, TOGAF, SABSA
  • Hands-on experience and strong understanding of technology and enterprise security
  • Solid understanding of compliance, regulatory and legal requirements relevant to the payments processing industry such as PCI, SOX, and GLBA.
  • Strong understanding of relevant Industry Principles, Best Practices, and Standards, such as NIST, ISO, IEEE, and TCG
  • Strong cross-domain and cross-functional knowledge that will enable design of the best possible security technology solutions.
  • Has solid understanding of the SSDLC process and follows the process to effectively develop and design solutions.
  • Ability to function as an individual contributor and mentor/leader detached from the corporate environment.

 

Think you have what it takes?

If you are interested in a career that will challenge and inspire you – we’d love to hear from you!

Additional Information

Diversity & Inclusion

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere, is not only our brand promise, it’s the foundation of our company culture. We foster a feeling of connectedness in the workplace, support diversity of thought, culture and background, fight for important initiatives like Equal Pay and actively work to eliminate unconscious biases that hold us all back.

By leveraging the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of our worldwide teams, Visa is a better place to work and a better business partner to our clients.

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