Lead System Architect

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging - where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world - helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

**Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.**

**Job Description**:
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As the Lead Systems Architect_**, you will spearhead the design of a variety of projects in Visa Platform Product Technology (PPT) team. You will be a collaborator who will be depended on by delivery and execution teams to offer technical guidance and solution designs. In this role, you will have the opportunity to introduce new services that enhance existing products or enable new products, recommend and evangelize new technologies that will improve the system, offer technical solutions to Visa infrastructure that drives innovation when delivered and perform at a six 9s level.

**_ You will drive technical_** solutions that has a direct impact on the payment industry. The solutions you design will be large scale, always available, secure, fast, accessible, and globally ready with an impact measured in future years.

**_ Your solutions_** will be used by millions of people worldwide every minute of the day. As the Lead Systems Architect, you will have the opportunity to bring your creative curiosity and technology experience to work every day and help build platforms and solutions that are consumed across digital platforms to create seamless, fast, reliable and user-friendly experiences.

**_ You will_** interact with organizational stake holders such as senior executives, senior product managers, and external partners like fortune 100 system integrators, wallet providers, and banks. You will have the opportunity to build technical solutions and influence release roadmaps.

**_ You will be_** **_an integral part_** of the VAS New Ventures Architecture Team and have the opportunity to build the Long-Term Architecture that delivers on the organizational vision for consistency, quality, developer productivity, security, reusability, and availability across Visa's global infrastructure.

**Key responsibilities include**:

- Identify appropriate technical solutions and/or products and designs that will best prepare the company to meet present and future business objectives.
- Design the most appropriate solution with well understood tradeoffs that meets the business requirements.
- Propose new solutions to meet the fast-changing payments industry landscape.
- Document the solution designs clearly and with enough details so delivery and execution teams can size the effort.
- Perform proof of concept to evaluate new and emerging technologies, design patterns, and proposed solutions.
- Work with engineering professionals, fellow software architects, and others within Visa to ensure that proposed solutions will scale appropriately and that the implementation will be a cost-effective solution.
- Manage the creation of several artifacts relating to the detail design and use cases that are solved for.
- Collaborate with software engineers and provide technical guidance during the construction phase of a project.
- Continue to learn about the payments industry and the factors impacting the payments industry.

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.

**Qualifications**:
Basic Qualifications:

- 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

- 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD in Computer Science or other technology field
- Experience in delivering enterprise-class, mission-critical, commercial, and scalable products, at least 3 years of which were in the role of an architect or a lead developer.
- Experience in Mobile Application Development (iOS and Android)
- Experience in Web Application Development.
- Experience