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Progress starts with you.\nJob Description\nOverview:\nWithin VISA Value Added Services, our mission is to build differentiated acceptance, issuing and risk and security products for merchants, acquirers, issuers and partners across all segments, verticals and geographies.\nVisa is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead engineering for key capabilities within the Risk and Security Solutions (RAS) organization. This is a deeply technical role for an AI-forward engineering leader who combines organizational leadership with strong hands-on software engineering, architecture and delivery ownership.\nYou will lead a high-performing team of engineers and AI agents responsible for building and operating high-scale, mission-critical, distributed systems that power customer-facing risk and security products. You will be expected to go beyond directional leadership: this role requires an AI-forward leader who can personally engage in architecture, design, code reviews, technical problem solving, production issue resolution, and where necessary hands-on code contribution to accelerate delivery, unblock teams, and raise the engineering bar. You will own the technical strategy and execution for systems that must meet demanding requirements for availability, resilience, throughput, latency, security, compliance, and operability. You will work closely with Product, Architecture, Security, SRE/Operations and partner teams across geographies to deliver customer value with speed and quality.\nEssential Functions:\nOwn the technical architecture, design, implementation, and delivery of customer-facing Risk & Security products and platform capabilities.\nTranslate product strategy into scalable, secure, resilient, and operable distributed systems.\nActively participate in code, design and architecture reviews, root-cause analysis, and contribute code when needed to unblock teams or accelerate critical initiatives.\nEstablish and enforce engineering standards for agentic development lifecycle, context engineering, code quality evals, performance, scalability, availability, observability, maintainability, and secure software delivery.\nPartner with Product Management, Cybersecurity, SRE/Operations to deliver solutions that maximize customer value, platform health, and execution predictability.\nBuild and execute technology roadmaps that balance business priorities, engineering sustainability, technical debt reduction, and operational efficiency.\nDrive adoption of engineering best practices including CI/CD, test automation and telemetry.\nCommunicate technical strategy, execution status, key tradeoffs, risks, and architectural decisions clearly to senior leadership.\nAttract, retain and grow high-performing engineering talent.\nEnable technical and process innovation through thought leadership and influence.\nUnderstand current and future trends within the payments industry.\nRequired Key Competencies:\nLed a team of 40+ made up of full-time employees, contractors and AI agents.\nProven hands-on technical leadership by actively participating in code and design reviews.\nBuilt a culture of engineering excellence (context engineering, code quality evals, security, performance, scalability, availability, resilience etc.)\nEffectively managed complex technical interdependencies across geographical teams.\nPartnered with product management in developing a strategy and roadmap that align with business and engineering goals.\nPartnered with remote teams to ensure alignment across product development. Bring a global mindset.\nDemonstrated ability to hire, coach, retain, and develop high-performing engineers and engineering leaders while raising the overall technical bar of the organization.\nEnabled innovation through thought leadership and influence.\nDeep expertise in building and operating high-scale distributed systems with demanding requirements for latency, throughput, resilience, security, and availability.\nStrong architectural judgment across service decomposition, API design, asynchronous messaging, data consistency, caching, failure isolation, and recovery strategies.\nExcellent execution leadership with the ability to align teams, prioritize effectively, manage risk, and deliver against commitments in ambiguous or high-pressure environments.\nStrong cross-functional partnership skills with the ability to influence Product, Operations, and senior stakeholders through technical credibility and data-driven communication.\nVisa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.\nQualifications\nBasic Qualifications:\n18+ years of relevant work experience with a bachelor’s degree or with an Advanced degree \nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience with Agentic development and effective use of AI models, tools and agents.\nSignificant experience leading the design and delivery of complex, enterprise-scale distributed systems in domains with high transaction volume, integration complexity, and stringent non-functional requirements.\nStrong hands-on engineering background in Java, Go, Rust, JavaScript etc. and modern backend development frameworks, with experience in concurrent or reactive architectures such as Vertx, or similar.\nProven experience building microservices and service-based platforms using HTTP, REST, gRPC JSON, and modern service contract/interface design patterns.\nStrong working knowledge of distributed web architecture, including service discovery, containerized deployment models, distributed caching, event streaming, NoSQL, and RDBMS technologies.\nExperience designing and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable, and observable services in production environments.\nStrong understanding of event-driven architecture, enterprise integration patterns, asynchronous processing, and API-based system interoperability.\nExperience with DevOps and modern software delivery practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, deployment automation, release orchestration, and capacity/performance planning.\nStrong understanding of application and platform security, including secure design, secure coding, access control, threat awareness, and contemporary security risks and controls.\nExperience with Agile engineering practices, technical governance, roadmap planning, dependency management, and execution in globally distributed organizations.\nDemonstrated ability to identify, communicate, and mitigate technical, operational, and delivery risk across a portfolio of products or multiple engineering teams.\nStrong analytical, architectural, and organizational leadership skills, with the ability to influence senior leadership and drive decisions through clarity, technical depth, and disciplined execution.\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 protected veteran status. 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