Director, Software Engineering (14+ years, Java, GenAI)

The Ecosystem and Operational Risk team is responsible for building critical risk and fraud prevention applications and services at VISA. This includes idea generation, architecture, design, development, and testing of products, applications, and services that provide Visa clients with solutions to detect, prevent, and mitigate risk for Visa and Visa client payment systems.

Are you skilled at turning hard numbers into compelling stories and useful strategic insights? Do you solve complex data challenges with creative flair? Put those skills to work answering strategic questions for one of the world's most respected and innovative payments companies.

Essential Functions:

• Strong technology and leadership background building enterprise scale applications using Java, Spring, REST APIs, RDBMS, and Angular/React. Machine Learning, Data Engineering (Hadoop, Hive, Spark), NoSQL, Kafka, and Data Pipelines desirable.
• Responsible for the overall development life cycle of the solution and manage complex products with significant bottom-line impact
• Work with and possibly manage remote teams
• Work with product managers in developing a strategy and road map to provide compelling capabilities that helps them succeed in their business goals.
• Work closely with senior engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.
• Instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements, and deliver high quality work on tight schedules.
• Project management: prioritization, planning of projects and features, stakeholder management and tracking of external commitments
• Operational Excellence: monitoring and operation of production services
•  Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards and processes.
• Mentor junior team members, develop departmental procedures and best practices standards.
• Hire and retain world class talents to deliver data platform projects.
• Strong Negotiation Skills: You will be a distinguished ambassador for product development, collaborating, negotiating, managing tradeoffs and evaluating opportunistic new ideas with business partners

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Bachelor degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required. Advanced degree preferred
Requires 14+ years of experience, at least 3 of which were in leading engineering teams
Proven experience delivering large scale, highly available production software
Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
A deep understanding of end-to-end software development in a team, and a track record of shipping software on time
Experience developing AI/ML solutions a huge plus
Payment processing background desirable but not required
Experience working in an Agile and Test-Driven Development environment
Strong business and technical vision

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.