Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

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We don’t deal in money, numbers or figures. We create the ground-breaking technologies and bold solutions that keep our world ticking over, connecting us all, every single day.

It’s our people that keep things running smoothly at Visa.  That’s why we invest in each and every one of our staff individually. We want them to grow with us, stick with us and help us reach even dizzier, and more extraordinary new heights.

We’re targeting dynamic thinkers who can get going quickly with our latest exciting job opportunities. 

If you think you could truly support the security of Visa as an Cloud Security Lead, we want to hear from you.

IAM Lead Solution Designer

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.  AS part of Cybersecurity we have made it our priority to create a top-tier identity and access management 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 cybersecurity. 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 an IAM Specialist, you’ll be enthused by getting stuck into various defence and security sector related projects, as well as the chance to work with top notch professionals to learn with and from.

The nitty gritty

So what do we expect of you day to day? Here’s a bit of a heads up:

• Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a key technology pillar at Visa, responsible for providing secure access governance to payment and transaction processing related applications, infrastructure  and services for a variety of users (employees, businesses and customers across the globe).
• To stay ahead of the rapidly changing business landscape especially with Merger and Acquisitions (M&A), newer forms of access governance that go beyond the corporate perimeter are required.  
• As an IAM Cloud Security Lead, you will work and lead in this dynamic environment with a talented team, influencing and building the next generation IAM technology stacks with the global  Visa organization. 
• Serve as a subject matter expert and technical lead in the IAM team for various Cloud Security deployments
• Research security controls and mentor other members of the security team
• Perform gap assessments and create roadmaps covering the end-to-end delivery of the Security controls required to secure the cloud deployments. 
• Liaise with number of Cybersecurity teams, IT, business stakeholders, conduct workshops and lead the design and implementation of the solutions.

What we’re after…

• Expert knowledge in Cloud technologies and can demonstrate hands on knowledge gained whilst delivering number of security projects in the cloud.
• Has in-depth knowledge of designing, building, operating, maintaining, and delivering continuous change into Cloud environments including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and GCP.
• Unrivalled experience with AWS core services, including best practice implementation of VPCs, EC2, IAM, RDS, Organisations and multi-account operation.
• Have gained exceptional experience as a solid technical person in the IAM domain
• Knowledge of data pipelines and associated CICD processes and Infrastructure as Code
• Strong programming skills (Python and Java)
• Excellent solution design skills, able to understand the bigger picture and derive possible options for improvements and implementation
• Experience with LDAP, AD, ADFS, Databases
• Solid understanding of web-based technologies including multi-tier applications and security standards (TLS, REST/SOAP, SAML, OAUTH, OIDC, WS-Trust,…)
• Proven self-starter who takes ownership of opportunities, works independently, manages multiple / simultaneous projects, and deals well with ambiguity and last-minute changes
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle