Sr. Manager, Software Engineering

About the position

Payments are a very exciting and fast-developing area with a lot of new and innovative ideas coming to market. With strong demand for new solutions in this space, it promises to be an exciting area of innovation for the next 5 to 10 years. VISA is a strong leader in the payment industry, and is rapidly transitioning into a technology company with significant investments in this area. If you want to be in the exciting payment space, learn fast and make big impacts, VISA Risk and Identity Solutions team (RaIS) is an ideal place for you! RaIS team within VAS (Value added Services) organization is looking for curious, creative, and talented technologists to join our team. This position is ideal for an experienced engineering leader who is passionate about collaborating with business and technology partners and engineers to solve challenging business problems. You will be a key driver in the effort to define the shared strategic vision for the RaIS development team and defining tools and services that safeguard Visa’s payment systems. The right candidate will possess strong software engineering background, with demonstrated experience in driving technical architecture, design and delivery of products and services that have created business value and delivered impact within the payments or payments risk domain or similar industries.

Responsibilities

• Lead an engineering team and initiatives to architect, enhance, and build next generation products in an agile development environment.
• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms.
• Drive projects that involve full stack development using Java, Spring, Microservices, Rest based APIs, frontend frameworks like ReactJS and Spark/Scala based processing on Hadoop platform.
• Drive solution architecture and technical architecture with product owners, engineers, and technical product managers.
• Lead your development team on projects and be responsible for end-to-end execution and delivery to KPIs on roadmap commitments.
• Excel in partnership with technical product managers, project managers and product leaders on requirements workshops and grooming.
• Drive release planning exercise, track development and testing to timely releases.
• Contribute to financial planning and roadmap planning for new and existing initiatives.
• Collaborate across engineering teams and leaders in VAS, Operations, and Infrastructure (O&I), security and platform teams.
• Enable and inspire your team to an innovation mindset, high levels of engagement and performance.
• Develop a culture of high levels of accountability and ownership with the team.
• Establish metrics and attain high scores on engineering, delivery excellence, and product performance.
• Communicate for success with partners in program management, product office, operations, and other stakeholders.
• Develop and measure design, code governance and delivery practices to achieve consistent high-quality releases.
• Coach/Mentor/Grow engineers and performance management.
• Hire top software engineers and help build a highly talented engineering organization.
• Manage one or multiple projects and initiatives with competing timelines and demands.
• Act decisively on continuous improvements to processes/tools for better developer efficiency and productivity.
• Lead product development with engineering teams across multiple orgs and geographies.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.
• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor 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.
• Have had hands-on engineering experience architecting high performant platforms.
• 4 or more years’ experience leading engineering teams on product development.
• 4 or more years of people management experience.
• Experience working on consumer facing product development collaborating with multiple teams that have different development models, release cycles, and developer needs.
• Experience developing highly available and scalable, REST based webservices.
• Experience in roadmap planning and execution to roadmap and KPIs, and measuring performance of development teams.
• Technically savvy and have deep understanding about system architecture and design best practices.
• Experience with translating business requirements into technical designs.
• Be flexible to adapt to changing directions and priorities.
• Experience leading full stack development, using some of these technologies- Java, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, React JS, JavaScript, Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, Maven, and Design Patterns, Test Automation framework.
• Be passionate about delivering zero defect code that meet or exceed the proposed defect SLA.
• Have great work ethics, and be a team player striving to bring the best results as a team.
• Experience leading development with engineers and teams in multiple geographical locations and time zones.
• Experience leading, coaching, and growing engineering teams.
• Experience conducting technical interviews and hiring top engineering talent.
• Past experience leading AWS based hybrid solutions is preferred.
• Experience in unit testing frameworks, functional testing processes, test management and automated testing tools.
• Experience in docker and Kubernetes based deployments and platforms.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools is preferred.
• Be data driven, understand the need for and apply analytics.
• Self-motivated with strong drive for excellence.
• Strong leadership qualities and organizational skills as well as the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience leading AWS based hybrid solutions.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools.

Benefits

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