- Specialist: 4 or more years of relevant work experience.
- 15 years of experience with progressive technical leadership responsibilities and broad influence across platforms, products, or engineering organizations.
- Demonstrated track record as a hands-on technical leader with organization-wide or platform-wide impact.
- Deep expertise designing, building, and scaling mission-critical distributed systems that require high availability, scalability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence.
- Proven ability to solve complex technical problems that span multiple domains, systems, teams, and production environments.
- Experience setting technical direction, influencing architecture and strategy across teams, and aligning technical decisions with product and business objectives.
- Expert proficiency in modern programming languages, API-first development, system design, software architecture, testing, deployment, debugging, performance tuning, and operational troubleshooting.
- Mastery of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, Kubernetes, containerized deployment models, and distributed architecture patterns.
- Deep experience with event-driven systems, event streaming platforms such as Kafka, and high-throughput data processing.
- Experience designing platform capabilities for large-scale transactional or operational systems, including reconciliation, reporting, analytics, workflow orchestration, lifecycle management, and business-critical processing.
- Experience designing and delivering modern web user interfaces, dashboards, or data visualization experiences that support transaction lifecycle visibility, settlement reporting, operational insights, exception management, and data-driven workflows using contemporary frontend technologies and patterns such as React, Angular, TypeScript, micro-frontends, reusable component libraries, accessibility, responsive design, and secure UI integration with APIs.
- Track record of mentoring senior engineers, influencing technical leaders, and raising engineering standards through hands-on technical guidance.
- Experience pioneering AI-enabled engineering practices, automation, or developer productivity improvements at team or organizational scale.
- Deep understanding of payment processing, reconciliation, transaction lifecycle concepts, distributed data flows, and high-scale financial technology platforms.
- Experience with file transfer protocols such as SFTP and batch processing patterns used in enterprise payment or data-processing environments.
- Experience in payments, financial services, fintech, or high-scale transaction processing environments, including familiarity with clearing and settlement concepts and payment network protocols such as Visa, Mastercard, and Amex.
- Recognized expertise in distributed systems, payment processing, transaction platforms, event-driven architecture, data platforms, secure software architecture, or production operations through publications, speaking engagements, patents, standards contributions, or equivalent industry impact.
- Experience implementing, deploying, or governing AI/ML, Generative AI, or intelligent systems at scale in production environments or engineering workflows.
- Track record of building, evolving, or technically leading platforms that serve billions of transactions or very high-volume operational workloads.
- Experience working with executive leadership, architects, product leaders, security leaders, and engineering teams to define technical strategy, roadmaps, risks, tradeoffs, and investment priorities.
- History of developing engineers who have grown into senior technical roles through mentorship, design leadership, technical reviews, and hands-on coaching.
- Experience with PCI-DSS, SOX, financial services regulatory compliance, security standards, audit readiness, and operational control environments.
- Experience with event correlation, transaction matching, retry mechanisms, dead-letter queues, event replay, idempotency, exactly-once processing considerations, and distributed data consistency patterns.
- Experience with modern frontend architecture, including React or Angular, TypeScript, design systems, reusable component libraries, performance optimization, accessibility standards, secure API integration, and data visualization frameworks for transaction lifecycle visibility, settlement reporting, reconciliation, exception management, and operational insight use cases.
- Strong hands-on background with technologies such as Java/J2EE, REST, Kafka, event streaming, batch processing, SFTP, data platforms, modern UI frameworks, TypeScript or JavaScript, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, test automation, and production troubleshooting.
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to form, advocate, and communicate an independent technical viewpoint grounded in hands-on engineering experience.
Information for US Applicants For roles located in the US, the estimated salary range for this position is $192,300.00 to $ 307,600.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity.Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.
Work Hours
Varies upon the needs of the department.
Travel Requirements
This position requires travel 5-10% 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.