Senior Director

Job Description

The Digital and Mobile Enablement Technology Organization in Issuing Solutions at Visa is looking for a passionate senior leader to advance Visa's Payment Digitization. This Individual will be leading a talented Engineering team, applying expertise to create and deliver outstanding features to scale our Issuers and partners. The successful candidate will provide technology leadership on strategic projects to create solutions for difficult problems and implement those solutions with the highest quality. We're looking for a seasoned individual to drive and guide digital and mobile projects aligned to business strategy. You and your team will be at the forefront of strategic breakthrough technologies and complex systems. You will work closely with product teams, partner with cross functional teams and cross- leverage engineering talent.

Reporting to the VP, Engineering, the Senior Director will be accountable for engineering functions of the Mobile Enablement Platform and Digital Enablement Services, and will be responsible for Development, Unit Test, Delivery and Maintenance of high-throughput systems. You will be responsible to lead the development and feature augmentation of the Mobile Enablement Platform, comprised of back end systems and APIs, front end mobile applications, instant apps, app-clips and a suite of SDK's. You will be tasked to scale our suite of existing capabilities, while deliver new ones. You will work with teams in global locations to develop and execute projects and programs within a shared strategic vision for building software that enables mobile, web and microservice solutions and integrations.

Responsibilities

Be accountable for implementing highly scalable, low-latency, high-throughput systems

Develop and nurture the Engineering team by motivating and mentoring staff, hire critical talent.

Create an outstanding engineering culture of creativity and innovation embodying whatever it takes attitude with ownership and pride in work.

Lead and provide mentoring, coaching and guidance to talented technologists with a wide spectrum of specialization from native mobile development to web and Java . Develop strategic, mature, whole-function managers and technology leads.

Work collaboratively across team boundaries to share common infrastructure and functional capabilities. Drive productivity through engineering fundamentals, framework and best practices.

Consult on a regular basis with leadership to align expectations and deliverables. Be aggressive and leverage resources to the fullest to work on multiple parallel initiatives and solutions.

Extensive cross-organization collaboration playing a crucial role in interfacing with various technology teams and stakeholders to identify requirements, prioritize, and drive execution using agile methodologies. Provide feedback to core product teams to influence roadmap and strategy.

Lead multiple projects simultaneously, resolve scheduling & other conflicts, to meet all deadlines

Contribute to Visa's Mobile Product Development strategies and define opportunities to incorporate Generative AI into those strategies.

Collaborate and work closely with Mobile Platform Architects

Achieve Operational/Engineering Excellence: security, availability, stability and efficiency

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.