Lead Systems Architect (Hybrid)

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.

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lease Note: *This position is based in our Atlanta, GAoffice. Visa isnotoffering fully remote roles at this time. We use a hybrid work model.*

The Value Added Services product development organization is responsible for design, implementation and support of merchant payment management solutions including payment acceptance and commerce management, risk management and marketing tools. This role will be part of the architecture group and will drive the evolution of the software products to meet key business objectives for the Authorize.Net (www.authorize.net) and CyberSource (www.cybersource.com) platforms. This role will work closely and partner with product development, product management, customer support and other VISA teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain long-term target state architecture and roadmap, ensure alignment with the business objectives, corporate strategies and standards

• Build expertise in developing highly available, reliable, and scalable solutions

• Ensure security, reliability, performance and cost effectiveness of the MAP platform

• Collaborate with the product management, other VISA IT groups and vendors to develop solutions for complex, global business requirements

• Establish architectural and technical standards and processes, ensure adherence to them through governance

• Evaluate and identify appropriate technology solutions to meet business and technology challenges, guide product development teams through their implementation

• Work on design and implementation of modern technology stack like Docker, Kubernetes , NoSQL and others

• Keep abreast of evolving technologies and anticipate technological evolutions that could be leveraged to enhance current architectures

• Champion technology innovation

Flex Work Arrangement - Hybrid Position- 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 two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

Basic Qualifications

• 10 years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree OR at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/MBA/JD/MD) OR at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications

• 12-15 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
• You have proven ability to define needs, develop plans, coordinate resources and implement action plans.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously & to resolve scheduling & other conflicts in order to meet all deadlines.
• Thorough understanding of Container based architecture for Cloud such as Docker
• Experience in building and establishing elastic scalability architectural patterns for web applications.
• Sound understanding of Service and IT operations management, and DevOps model, good knowledge of Deployment, Capacity Planning
• Strong understanding of Enterprise Integration using web services, REST
• Experience in Distributed Caches and other Distributed System
• Experience in design and development of Event driven steams
• Experience in development of API gateway and Microservices
• Understand the Security requirements and standards, and contemporary trends in security risks as well as technologies.
• Experience in high volume, real time communication systems for multiple channels including, email, SMS and web-hooks.
• Experience in high volume real time streaming systems.
• Experience in streaming solutions from an architectural viewpoint and from a implementation view point.
• Experience in real time monitoring for critical system related to Automated Active Active response.
• Expert level experience in Grafana, Graphite ,Prometheus and other leading monitoring systems.
• 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 an efficient and collaborative team environment

• Immigration sponsorship and relocation assistance are not supported for this position*

Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position is eligible that includes

• Medical, Dental, Vision,
• FSH/HSA,
• 401(k) (Double matching),
• Life Insurance,
• Paid Time Off (vacation, and volunteer time)
• Wellness Program

Work Hours:Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements:This position requires travel5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements:This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.