Chief Systems Architect

Company: Visa
Location: San Mateo
Posted on: November 16, 2021

Job Description:

As a Chief Systems Architect, you provide strategic architecture leadership to project architects and your product partners on large and complex projects for merchant payment management solutions. 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 on innovative payment acceptance, integrated commerce management, powerful risk management and marketing tools. 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: * * Drives the architecture for key cross team / cross product development projects (via architecture/design documents and developing code key modules). * Establishes software development patterns and best practices via examples and shipping code. * Ensures that all relevant project teams follow a common set of principles and patterns and utilize a standard set of technology frameworks and libraries. * Provides leadership across the architecture community to ensure solutions are built in alignment with platform principles and standards. * Mentors and builds world-class high-performing engineering and data science teams. * Applies architecture best practices that helps increase execution velocity. * Develops architectures that are inherently secure, robust, scalable, modular, API-centric and global. * Influences technology selection for the enterprise. * Defines deployment topology by working with peers across the technology organization. * Optimizes use of Visa's Platforms & Solutions. * Demonstrates thought leadership through presentations and teaching across Visa. * Contributes to key Visa and CyberSource technology initiatives. *Basic Qualifications: * * 12 years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree; 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA/JD/MD); or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD *Preferred Qualifications: * * 15-18 years of experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD or PhD) * BS/MS in Computer Science/Computer Engineering, Science, Math * A minimum of 15 years of experience in architecture and development, 5 years with experience in building data driven frameworks and solutions * Proven knowledge of successful design, architecture and development using Hadoop with large data volumes * Possesses a deep understanding of benefits/drawbacks of different integration patterns * Continuous delivery and Dev Ops experience - infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, auditing and security implementation and practices * A minimum of 2 years experience with Hadoop and related technologies is require * A minimum of 3 years experience with RDBMS development (Oracle, DB2, etc.) is required * Knowledge of NoSQL stores (e.g. HBASE and Cassandra) technologies is a plus * Prior knowledge and experience working with Merchant data/information is a plus Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees and visitors. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the U.S. are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law. *_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. 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.

Keywords: Visa, San Mateo , Chief Systems Architect, Other , San Mateo, California