Chief Systems Architect - VAS Digital Marketing & Engagement

$192,300 - $250,950/Yr

Visa - WA, WA

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - WA, WA

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About the position

As a Chief Systems Architect in Value Added Services - Digital Marketing & Engagement organization, you will provide technical leadership/oversight to software architects, engineers as well partnering with your product partners on large and complex projects for Customer Engagement, Loyalty, and Marketing domains. You understand the business imperatives tied to these strategic projects. You provide technology leadership and are the technical expert on strategic projects, drive the release strategy and guide the delivery of strategic projects aligned to business strategy on innovative payment acceptance and integrated commerce management with a focus on simplicity. You maintain awareness of dependencies between projects and delivery vision, while ensuring engineering excellence to the five nines. You build the strategy for your teams to architect, design and deliver the next wave of enterprise FinTech innovation.

Responsibilities

• Drives the architecture for key cross team / cross product development projects (via architecture/design documents and developing code key modules).
• Establishes software development patterns and best practices via examples and shipping code.
• Drives the coordination, organization and execution of qualitative and quantitative decisions and advises senior management on insights and recommended actions.
• Influences, motivates and collaborates with a wide variety of partners and stakeholders.
• Ensures that all relevant project teams follow a common set of principles and patterns and utilize a standard set of technology frameworks and libraries.
• Provides leadership across the architecture community to ensure solutions are built in alignment with platform principles and standards.
• Mentors and builds world-class high-performing engineering teams.
• Applies architecture best practices that help increase execution velocity.
• Develops architectures that are inherently secure, robust, scalable, modular, API-centric and global.
• Influences technology selection for the enterprise.
• Defines deployment topology by working with peers across the technology organization.
• Optimizes use of Visa's Platforms & Solutions.
• Demonstrates thought leadership through presentations and teaching across Visa.
• Establishes best practices in client application development using engineering excellence.

Requirements

• 12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 9 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience.
• Strong experience in deploying and managing software in public Cloud technologies.
• Proven knowledge of successful design, architecture and development of complex systems.
• Possesses a deep understanding of benefits/drawbacks of different integration patterns.
• Continuous delivery and Dev Ops experience - infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, auditing and security implementation and practices.
• Experience in Java language, Spring, Hibernate, Angular, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, and HTML5/ CSS3.
• Experience in code development using Eclipse/MyEclipse, JetBrains IntelliJ or any major Java IDE.
• Experience in API Development using SOAP or REST, JSON and XML.
• Experience with GIT/Stash, Maven and Jenkins.
• Experience in SQL and/or PL/SQL.
• Experience in SqlServer, Oracle.
• Experience with SOAPUI.
• Ability to solve complex software development/design issues.
• Ability to write clean, coherent code following established coding guidelines.
• Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and effective communication skills (both written and verbal).
• Experience developing as part of Agile/Scrum team is preferred.
• Passionate about high quality and timeliness of deliverables.
• Ability to deliver on multiple projects and manage priorities based on changing directions.
• Highly driven, resourceful and results oriented.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and navigate through ambiguity.

Nice-to-haves

• 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience.
• Past experience in Payments is preferred.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401 (k)
• FSA/HSA
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Wellness Program