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Progress starts with you.\nJob Description\nOverview:\nAt Visa, we are reimagining the future of global commerce.\nThe Payment Products Development (PPD) Architecture & Consulting team partners with Product, Engineering, and Business leaders to define technology strategy, architect next-generation payment solutions, modernize platforms, and accelerate innovation across Visa's global payment ecosystem.\nOur team helps shape the technology foundations that power billions of payment interactions worldwide by simplifying complexity, guiding strategic investments, establishing architecture standards, and enabling scalable, resilient, secure, intelligent, and future-ready solutions.\nAs Visa continues its transformation toward open platforms, cloud-native solutions, and AI-powered experiences, our architects play a critical role in defining the technologies that will power the next generation of payments, commerce, and financial services.\nRole Summary:\nAs a Lead Systems Architect, you will help define the future of how the world moves money.\nYou will work at the intersection of business strategy, emerging technology, AI innovation, and global-scale engineering, influencing some of Visa's most important technology investments.\nYour work will help shape products and platforms that process billions of transactions, enable new payment experiences, and power commerce across the globe.\nIn this role, you will:\nDefine architecture strategies, target-state architectures, and technology roadmaps for Visa's strategic payment products and platforms. \nLead the design of open, scalable, API-first platforms leveraging cloud-native architectures, event-driven systems, reusable services, and modern integration patterns. \nPartner with Product, Engineering, Operations, and Business leaders to transform bold ideas into scalable, secure, resilient, and high-performing solutions. \nLead architecture consulting engagements, providing strategic guidance, impact assessments, architecture reviews, and technology recommendations for critical initiatives. \nDrive modernization initiatives that evolve legacy platforms into interoperable, cloud-enabled, developer-friendly ecosystems. \nArchitect and enable AI-native platforms and intelligent solutions utilizing GenAI, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), orchestration frameworks, and emerging AI capabilities. \nLeverage AI and automation to improve engineering productivity, operational efficiency, architecture analysis, and customer experiences. \nEstablish architecture standards, reusable patterns, governance frameworks, and engineering best practices that improve quality, consistency, and speed of delivery. \nDefine and execute proof-of-concept initiatives supporting strategic business objectives, platform modernization, and digital transformation programs. \nIdentify opportunities where emerging technologies can improve scalability, resiliency, security, operational efficiency, or customer experience. \nEstablish success criteria, measurable outcomes, and architectural evaluation frameworks for all POCs. \nLead end-to-end POC activities including requirements gathering, solution design, implementation, testing, and executive presentation. \nEvaluate emerging technologies, develop proofs of concept, and influence Visa's long-term technology direction. \nMentor engineers and architects while fostering innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. \nProjects You Will Be Part Of:\nNext-generation payment products and platform modernization initiatives. \nOpen systems transformation programs focused on API enablement, interoperability, ecosystem integration, and platform simplification. \nAI-native and GenAI-enabled solutions that transform how technology teams design, build, test, deploy, and operate software. \nCloud, data, API, and platform transformation programs. \nStrategic architecture roadmaps supporting Visa's global payment ecosystem. \nCross-functional consulting engagements driving innovation, simplification, and business agility. \nEmerging technology initiatives exploring the future of payments, digital commerce, intelligent systems, and financial services. \nVisa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.\nQualifications\nBasic Qualifications:\n10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g., Master's, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, OR an equivalent combination of education, training, and work experience.\nDeep experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems, platforms, and enterprise applications in high-availability environments.\nStrong experience architecting open, API-first, cloud-native systems using industry standards, microservices, event-driven architectures, modern integration patterns, and reusable platform services. \nExperience in payments, fintech, financial services, commerce, or other highly scaled transaction-processing environments. \nExperience driving modernization from legacy or tightly coupled systems to scalable, interoperable, and loosely coupled architectures. \nDemonstrated experience designing, implementing, or enabling AI and GenAI-powered solutions, including intelligent workflows, agentic systems, AI-assisted engineering capabilities, RAG frameworks, or AI-native platform features. \nAbility to translate business opportunities into practical, scalable technology solutions that deliver measurable customer and business value.\nExperience defining target-state architectures, technology roadmaps, architecture principles, and engineering standards.\nExperience influencing technical decisions and collaborating across Product, Engineering, Operations, and executive stakeholders.\nStrong communication, problem-solving, and relationship-building skills. \nPassion for innovation, continuous learning, and shaping the future of technology and payments. \nPreferred Qualifications\n12 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.\n12+ years of progressively responsible experience in software engineering, systems architecture, solution architecture, platform engineering, or related technology disciplines.\nExperience building cloud-native platforms and leveraging platform engineering practices to improve developer productivity and operational excellence.\nExperience designing AI-native architectures utilizing foundation models, agent orchestration frameworks, vector databases, RAG architectures, AI observability, model governance, and responsible AI principles.\nExperience leading enterprise modernization initiatives involving cloud transformation, API enablement, platform simplification, or data architecture evolution.\nExperience developing technology strategy, innovation roadmaps, or architecture guidance for large-scale product organizations.\nPassion for mentoring others and building strong engineering and architecture communities. \n\nInformation for US Applicants\nFor roles located in the US, the estimated salary range for this position is $193,800.00 to $ 310,100.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity.Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.Work Hours\nVaries upon the needs of the department.\nTravel Requirements\nThis position requires travel 5-10% of the time.\nMental/Physical Requirements\nThis position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.\nVisa is an EEO Employer\nQualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protect veteran status. 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