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.

As a global payments technology company, tech is at the heart of all we do: we are the Merchant & Acquirer Processing Product Development Team—MAP, a team focused on driving security, uptime and innovation for our clients. We are enabling the future of frictionless global payments for merchants and partners around the world today.

As part of the MAP PD team, you will collaborate with financial technology experts to help create the most powerful, innovative and secure payment platforms— with an agile approach — all designed to accelerate commerce for our clients— world-class companies, fast-growing start-ups and their consumers everywhere.

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.

As a Lead Systems Architect, you will partner with chief architects and provide technical leadership and guidance to cross-functional teams to define system and solution architectures for complex products deployed on our commerce platform.  You will understand the required business capabilities, their strategic drivers, and the associated functional/non-functional requirements,  and provide the target state solution as well as any interim state architectures to enable technical teams to execute against a well-defined line-of-sight.  You will be keenly aware of the service inter-dependencies and build extensible and flexible architectures to drive engineering excellence, security, scalability, reliability and performance.  Finally, you will actively contribute in the ongoing evolution of our enterprise architecture to enable scale, time to market and achieve revenue targets.

Responsibilities

• You will define architecture for large and complex product development projects through clear and articulate diagrams and artifacts such as logical architectures, deployment topologies, sequence diagrams, functional decompositions and API swagger specs, among others.
• You will lead Proof of Concept (POC) solutions as needed to vet technologies proposed in your architecture.
• You will build architectures that are inherently secure, robust, scalable, reliable, extensible, modular and reusable.
• You will ensure that project teams follow a common set of principles and patterns; and utilize  approved set of technology frameworks, libraries and API standards.
• You will actively contribute to the architecture community to define platform principles and standards, and to ensure that solutions are built in alignment with these.
• You will apply architecture best practices to increase execution velocity, specifically as it relates to leveraging existing Visa shared assets.
• You will define deployment topologies by partnering with peers across technology organization.
• You will actively influence new/changing technology decisions.
• You will demonstrate thought leadership through presentations and sessions across MAP PD.
• You will lead key Visa and Cybersource technology initiatives.

Required skills/experience:

• Bachelors/Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical field required.
• 12+ years of relevant experience in architecture or development role.
• Expertise in building scalable, flexible and fault tolerant systems.
• Expertise in design patterns, anti-patterns and best practices.
• Experience with multiple programming languages including Java 8.
• Experience with multiple databases – relational and NoSQL, messaging middleware.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and communication/articulation skills.
• Strong business acumen to translate requirements into effective architecture roadmap.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and software development lifecycle principles.
• Ability to manage multiple competing top priorities in a fast-paced environment.

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