Sr. Manager, Software Engineering

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Join the Risk and Identity (RaIS) team as a Sr. Manager for Risk Platform and Product development group. We’re a Value-Added Services Technology function dedicated to safeguarding the security and integrity of the payments ecosystem. This role is pivotal in shaping the strategy, design, and deployment of risk programs and adapting them as the payment and threat landscapes evolve. The position requires a collaborative leader, who can work with internal and external stakeholders to deliver these programs and ensure they align with Visa’s business strategy and its growth.

Be a part of our mission to shape the future of secure payments.

As a Sr. Manager in Risk and Identity Solutions technology team, you will pave the way for our most important asset, our engineers, to deliver amazing features with highest quality. 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. 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.

 

Essential Functions:

We expect our Sr. Manager to do much more than just managing multiple teams

• Help our client to achieve their real goals by understanding the requirements and how it would help them in their business.
• Proven ability to define needs, develop plans, coordinate resources, and implement action plans.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously & to resolve scheduling & other conflicts to meet all deadlines.
• Experience with a variety of development methodologies and mature understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of each. Solid experience with Agile methods is a plus.
• Superior verbal, written & interpersonal communication skills with both technical & non-technical audiences.
• Experience in coaching engineers both on technical and career development
• Excellent team player, with strong collaboration skills and ability to influence cross-functional team for results
• Focus on building a collaborative team environment
• Expertise of Core Java-J2EE technologies, REST and Container and cloud based technologies.
• Experience in or familiarity with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React/Redux, TypeScript etc.)
• Expertise in JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Hands on leader who can evaluate and develop PoCs for new technologies adopting GenAI
• Develop and nurture the engineering team by hiring critical talent, driving retention, motivating, and mentoring staff, and driving career growth for team members. Build an inclusive team culture, and a culture of ownership and accountability.
• Make a positive impact in RaIS team and foster innovation and explore new technologies such as Gen AI.

 

Most important qualities for the candidate are:

• Leadership: Proven track record of responsibilities as a technical lead.
• Management: An efficient manager who handling multiple reports and teams
• Mentor: A guide who can coach and mentor team members.
• Curiosity:  A desire to seek clarity of requirements and why tasks are done a certain way
• Creativity: The ability to take a list of needs and insights and come with other innovative ideas.
• Strategic focus: Skill to understand big picture and stay focused on task to achieve goals
• Attention to detail: The capability to perform any research systematically and accurately
• Strong work ethic:  The innate drive to do work extremely well
• Enthusiasm: A passion to understand people and deliver better products and services to them

 

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

• 8+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 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
• Experience in commercial software development on Unix/Linux environment.
• Experience in Java/J2EE technologies, Container, Cloud and database technologies
• Experience in or familiarity with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React/Redux, TypeScript etc.)
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex ideas clearly and concisely.
• Experience in setting and tracking technical goals, SLAs, and KPIs.
• Excellent leadership and team building skills.
• Experience in navigating complex organizations to identify and meet business and customer needs.
• Proficiency with Agile methodologies and software development lifecycle principles.
• Proven experience delivering large-scale, highly available production software.
• Strong technical experience in Java/J2EE, Microservices, big data Hadoop ecosystems, open systems, React / Angular JS
• Technical experience with Big Data Technologies, with a focus on Spark with Java or Scala.
• Expertise with Java 8 or higher, Spring, Spring boot, caching, streaming pipelines.
• Payment industry experience is a plus.

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.