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Progress starts with you.\nJob Description\nRole Overview\nWe are seeking a Senior Director of Commercial Platform Engineering to lead enterprise-scale engineering teams responsible for the strategy, architecture, development, and delivery of modern commercial payments platforms. This leader will oversee the full lifecycle of critical payment acceptance capabilities for suppliers, partners, and internal stakeholders, ensuring platforms are secure, scalable, resilient, and aligned with business growth objectives.\nThe Senior Director will drive modernization, cloud transformation, automation, cross-platform integration, and GenAI-assisted engineering practices to improve engineering velocity, product quality, and developer effectiveness. This role requires a strong technical leader who can operate at both strategic and execution levels, partnering closely with product, technology, operations, infrastructure, risk, and business executives to deliver high-impact platform outcomes.\nKey Responsibilities:\nLead platform engineering teams responsible for the full lifecycle of commercial payments capabilities, including architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, reliability, and production support.\nSet the engineering strategy and technical direction for large-scale distributed payment platforms, with a focus on performance, scalability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence.\nOwn end-to-end delivery of enterprise platform initiatives, from concept and roadmap planning through execution, release deployment, and ongoing optimization.\nDrive next-generation capabilities for supplier and partner acceptance platforms, enabling seamless integrations, improved user experiences, and expanded business 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leadership, product teams, and cross-functional partners.\nRepresent engineering in planning forums, executive reviews, escalation discussions, architecture governance, and roadmap prioritization sessions.\nEnsure strong data governance, system infrastructure readiness, platform reliability, and compliance alignment across supported products and services.\nBuild, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, inclusion, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement.\nEstablish metrics and operating mechanisms to track delivery performance, quality, reliability, security posture, operational health, and developer effectiveness.\nVisa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.\nQualifications\nBasic Qualifications:\n12+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience\nPreferred Qualifications:\n15 or more years of 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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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