Director, Software Engineering (14+ years, Scala, Spark, Data Pipeline, GenAI) Spark
Visa · Posted Oct 6
Digital payment technology platform and global payment card services corporation
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About the role
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories. The role leads software development teams in delivering secure, scalable, high-quality fintech applications and platforms, overseeing the full software development lifecycle from backlog refinement through build, test, deployment, monitoring, and iteration. It drives agile and DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing while ensuring development work integrates responsibly with AI/ML capabilities including Generative and Agentic AI coding under data governance and financial regulatory compliance standards.
What you will do
- Monitors throughput across multiple teams to determine capacity and oversees partnerships with stakeholders to define user requirements for complex projects.
- Guides requirements gathering, feedback incorporation, and actionable metrics to assess delivery feasibility and reviews gaps in acceptance criteria.
- Oversees translation of user requirements into system designs, ensuring alignment with business strategy and formalizing best practices.
- Leads system architecture discussions, interprets findings from investigations, and owns design decisions for complex products.
- Oversees project plans, release plans, and estimation processes, addressing escalated issues and removing technical obstacles.
- Develops standards for code quality, security, and maintainability; updates security assessment processes to ensure code is free from threats.
- Shapes best practices for debugging, automation, and code review across multiple products and teams.
- Provides guidance on test planning, prioritizes tests, and ensures expected testing results across product features.
- Leads system monitoring efforts, sets data analysis standards, and aligns project strategy for long-term value.
- Provides technical expertise to resolve major incidents, ensures teams have resources to respond to incidents, and shares learnings to prevent recurrence.
- Manages team decisions around developer tools, oversees selection and enhancement of tools, and shares best practices for complex products.
- Identifies and develops engineering talent, ensures team skills support business goals, and disseminates knowledge to improve product reliability and performance.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.
Preferred qualifications
- 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
- Experience in leading software engineering teams in fintech, payments, or banking technologies/software systems.
- Experience in developing and/or implementing web-based or mobile applications.
- Experience in a leadership role with direct reports.
- Experience in requirements gathering, system design, and architecture for complex software solutions.
- Experience in agile delivery management and DevSecOps practices.
- Experience in code development, review, and debugging for enterprise-scale applications.
- Experience in test planning, execution, and automation.
- Experience in incident response and resolution for software engineering teams.
- Experience in talent management, coaching, and engineering development.
- Experience in securities, payments, and banking technologies.
- Experience working with container-based technologies.
- Experience building and testing enterprise-scale web services.
- Experience in product development and working on internal or client-facing project or technical teams.
- Experience leading project teams.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Visa
Visa Inc. is a multinational payment card services corporation that facilitates electronic funds transfers worldwide. The company empowers global commerce through its secure digital payment network, connecting consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 34100 employees
- Founded
- 1958-09-18
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $17.9B raised
- 2008-03-19IPO$17.9B
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Product and Strategy Officer
Group President, Global Markets
Vice Chair, Chief People and Corporate Affairs Officer
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