As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company's dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device, and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.

At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.

You're an Individual. We're the team for you. Together, let's transform the way the world pays.

Visa processes 100s of millions of payment transactions per day and has one of the world’s most valuable data assets. The Visa Data Products Development organization has the mission of unleashing the power of data to drive global commerce. 
Visa is seeking a Chief Architect in the Data Product Development organization to increase product innovation, shorten development time to revenue, and ensure application resilience.  This individual will operate as a trusted advisor and strategic thought partner to the technology leadership team and our business stakeholders.
The successful candidate will be comfortable navigating challenging forces in the dynamic payments space and working in a fast-paced environment while implementing strategies and processes that enable the organization to innovate and grow.   

Essential Functions

• Design technology roadmaps, develop and manage architecture, technical solutions and mentor engineering teams to adopt and use them to create new generation of Data Products applications and services.
• Enable the end-to-end development efforts for on schedule, high quality, scalable innovative solutions that meet the product vision and roadmap.
• Collaborate with Business teams to ensure completeness and common understanding of product vision, roadmap & requirements.
• Align with architects and senior technologists on proper architecture and design.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to Data Products architects and technology teams at site level.
• Drive strong client focus mindset within the team.
• Significant experience with large-scale database and data management techniques and technologies.
• Solid understanding of security concepts and methods for protecting data at rest and in-flight.
• Handle routine daily activities such as coordination, coaching, mentoring, recruiting, budgeting, planning, delivery, quality, partner relationships, performance metrics, operations, efficiency, service level management, etc.
• Think strategically: See patterns and relationships in information and events; clarify and simplify complex information
• Anticipate trends and possibilities that may lead to new business opportunities;
• Consistently think and act “ahead of the curve;” anticipate and effectively respond with urgency to immediate opportunities 
• Identify and address long-term opportunities

• 15+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline. 
• 12+ years of hands on software development experience
• Proven experience managing the software development of highly available enterprise level multi-tier applications and services utilizing tools and technologies including  AI, Machine Learning, and Big Data
• Outstanding verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and interaction skills
• Experience in influencing decision makers, stakeholders, and team members
• Strong at technical goal setting for a project with actionable success metrics.
• Experience with measuring a service from user experience perspective, setting and tracking to SLAs and KPIs
• Ability to represent technical and business issues and solutions to multiple levels internally and externally to support organizational plans
• Ability to work in a complex organization to determine business and customer needs, providing the best solution to meet those needs
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

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

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