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Progress starts with you.\nJob Description\nOverview:\nVisa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate one of the world’s most sophisticated global transaction networks-processing more than 65,000 secure transactions per second across 80 million merchants, 15,000 financial institutions, and billions of people worldwide. As part of our AI-First Innovation team, you will help define and deliver transformative intelligence-driven products that unlock new payment experiences, new business flows, and new capabilities across Visa’s ecosystem.\nThe Opportunity:\nWe are seeking a versatile, curious, and impact-driven Sr. Consultant Engineer who thrives at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, and large-scale customer impact. In this role, you will lead the execution of next-generation AI-powered solutions-partnering closely with engineering, data science, design, security, and business stakeholders. You will steward development from ideation to scaled deployment, guiding teams to build intelligent, resilient, and trustworthy systems that serve Visa’s global network.\nThe Work Itself:\nTranslate complex business challenges into clear engineering roadmaps, user requirements, and technical specifications that enable breakthrough innovation across payment flows, fraud intelligence, data products, and real-time commerce platforms.\nLead the experimentation pipeline, evaluating new technologies, model types, LLM-based features, and platform capabilities-and guiding teams through proof-of-concepts, pilots, and scaled launches.\nImplement innovations for AI-native capabilities that touch 40% of the world’s population, setting new standards for scalability, security, explainability, and reusability.\nDrive cross-functional collaboration, ensuring platform engineers, UX teams, and product partners align on architecture, capabilities, and success metrics.\nChampion product quality and operational resilience, identifying systemic patterns across data, model performance, bugs, and user friction-and driving durable solutions.\nShape Visa’s next-generation AI ecosystem, leveraging cloud-native and modern AI/ML technologies to build robust, privacy-preserving, and globally scalable services.\nEnable global impact, mentoring teams, developing best practices, and contributing to internal learning programs to elevate Visa’s AI maturity and experimentation culture.\nKey Responsibility:\nProvide deep technical leadership across AI, data platforms, and large-scale distributed systems-directing strategy for how requirements are collected, evaluated, and transformed into decisive product direction.\nLead structured discovery with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to recommend architectures, model integration patterns, and scalable design strategies.\nEstablish and maintain standards for responsible AI, including data quality, model testing, explainability, observability, and end-to-end governance.\nLead planning and implementation for new AI capabilities and intelligent features, ensuring seamless integration into Visa’s global platforms and customer experiences.\nAnalyze performance patterns, customer signals, and model behavior to implement systemic improvements and long-term product enhancements.\nThe Skills You Bring:\nAI-first mindset-curiosity, experimentation, and a passion for applying intelligent technologies to solve global-scale problems.\nProduct leadership with technical depth, including experience driving ML, data, cloud, or highly-distributed system products.\nAbility to challenge the status quo, with comfort ideating beyond traditional solutions and guiding teams through ambiguity.\nUnderstanding of modern engineering and ML stacks, including familiarity with languages and frameworks such as Python, Java, C++, containers, Kubernetes, LLM APIs, vector databases, and real-time data systems.\nExperience shipping modern products with a focus on scalability, reliability, and measurable customer value.\nContinuous learning mindset, staying current with emerging AI technologies, MLOps patterns, and model-based product architectures.\nStrong cross-functional collaboration, working closely with Product, Engineering, Security, UX, DevOps, and Agile/Scrum teams.\nVisa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.\nQualifications\nBasic Qualifications:\n8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.\nPreferred Qualifications:\n9 or more years of relevant work experience with a bachelor's degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD.\nSelf-driven and willing to work across 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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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