Total 10 Director/C-Level engineering job vacancies in Bangalore

We are seeking a candidate with demonstrated ability to lead by influence with a record of successfully delivering modern, large-scale, complex service and products. This is accomplished by leading multiple large diverse technical teams at all levels and closely collaborate with program and product teams. 

You will provide hands-on technical leadership to multiple development teams. The focus is on defining, executing, and delivering functional and non-functional features at scale quickly and promoting a diverse culture of cross-functional collaboration and engineering excellence. Be an idea leader and bring industry best practices to benefit the team and the wider organization. The ability to balance demanding business capabilities with building for operational excellence while meeting regulatory, security and privacy requirements.

Ability to quickly grasp and evaluate new ideas and technologies from internal and external sources. Lead multiple teams, matching them with appropriate technology and business problems while building a culture of both innovation and a drive for excellence.

Visa is rapidly growing our Value-Added Services product portfolio across the globe, and the VAS Platform & Engineering organization is at the intersection of the numerous technologies, platforms and solutions enabling this growth.

Part of our network of global technology sites, Bangalore is an established and fast-growing hub for executing on our innovation, generative AI, and platform modernization efforts.  As the organizational lead for this site, you will oversee a diverse set of engineering teams and guide them as they deliver for their respective product partners.  This team is active in complex, multi-business stakeholder initiatives where innovative integration patterns are required, and emerging technologies are applied to enhance functionality and deliver more value to the market.

We need a proven technology leader with strong communication and organizational skills to drive both the execution of our immediate modernization plans as well as the definition of our strategic long-term solutions. Expertise in agile delivery, building purpose driven teams, and a background in complex integration projects involving multiple internal applications and 3rd party solutions is critical. Prior background in payments, and experience with Generative AI and Machine Learning is a strong plus.

The successful candidate will be comfortable navigating the challenging dynamic payments space and leading global teams responsible for platform transformation efforts. This candidate will also play a pivotal role in growing our VAS solutions footprint, seeking new paths to revenue by building modular, open solutions that will scale with our business.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for the overall development life cycle with significant bottom-line impact
• Deliver products with complex technical interdependencies collaborating with cross geographical development and product teams. Collaborate with Product Office, Operations & Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Client Support and other Product Development teams in developing complete solutions
• Build a culture of engineering excellence (quality, security, performance, scalability, availability, resilience etc.) across your own teams and the entire organization
• Partner with product owners in developing a strategy and roadmap that align with business goals
• Manage technical debt and costs within your product and organization budgets
• Influence adoption of best engineering practices, automations of software development, testing and deployment processes
• Manage the prioritization and delivery of enhancements and ongoing maintenance activities for multiple services
• Be responsible for the incident management, change, and problem management
• Hire, retain and grow high-performing and diverse global engineering teams.
• Invest in the career development of your employees with a strong focus on mentorship and training
• Lead with a strong client focus mindset across organizations
• Handle routine daily activities such as coordination, coaching, mentoring, recruiting, budgeting, planning, delivery, quality, partner relationships, performance metrics, operations, efficiency, service level management, etc.
• Recruit and manage an engineering team dedicated to the implementation of the VAS technology strategy
• Make a positive impact on Visa's VAS applications and solutions, foster innovation and explore new technologies such as Gen AI
• Spearhead the design and development of APIs to foster value generating integrations across our Value Added Services applications, platforms and solutions
• Progress our modernization roadmap, enabling us to expand our market reach and client base by adopting best-in-class technology solutions for our core platform

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.

Job Description

We are seeking a candidate with demonstrated ability to lead by influence with a record of successfully delivering modern, large-scale, complex service and products. This is accomplished by leading multiple large diverse technical teams at all levels and closely collaborate with program and product teams.

Your mission is to provide hands-on leadership to multiple development teams, building a world-class team of engineers. The focus is on defining, executing, and delivering functional and non-functional features at scale quickly and promoting a diverse culture of cross-functional collaboration and engineering excellence. Be an idea leader and bring industry best practices to benefit the team and the wider organization. The ability to balance demanding business capabilities with building for operational excellence while meeting regulatory, security and privacy requirements.

Ability to quickly grasp and evaluate new ideas and technologies from internal and external sources. Lead multiple teams, matching them with appropriate technology and business problems while building a culture of both innovation and drive for excellence.

The successful candidate will be comfortable navigating the challenging dynamic payments space and leading global teams responsible for platform transformation efforts.

Specific Responsibilities

Directs and manages multiple diverse teams of engineering professionals performing research, development, design and/or implementation of products, services, solutions for Authorize.net and the VISA VAS (Value-Added Services) Portfolio. Responsible for creating and communicating technical strategy within the organization and/or across the function. Own and Drivedrive the end to end development effort for on-time, high quality, highly scalable technical solutions that meet the product vision. Responsibilities span all phases of product development including:

• Collaborate and align with architects and senior technologists on proper architecture and design.

• Partner with Business teams to ensure completeness and common understanding of product vision, roadmap and requirements.

• Build a culture of engineering excellence (quality, security, performance, scalability, availability, resilience etc.) across your own teams and the entire organization.

• Adopt AI in all aspects of the software development lifecycle.

• Influence adoption of best engineering practices, automations of software development, testing and deployment processes.

• Build analytics that provides deep insights into engineering efficiency, developer velocity, operational and support efficiency and service quality.

• Manage technical debt and costs within your product and organization budgets.

• Be responsible for the incident management, change, and problem management.

• Hire, retain and grow high-performing and diverse global engineering teams.

• Invest in the career development of your employees with a strong focus on mentorship and training.

• Lead with a strong client focus mindset across organizations.

• Handle routine daily activities such as coordination, coaching, mentoring, recruiting, budgeting, planning, delivery, quality, partner relationships, performance metrics, operations, efficiency, service level management, etc.

• Progress our modernization roadmap, enabling us to expand our market reach and client base by adopting best-in-class technology solutions for our core platform.

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.

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.     

The Opportunity:   

We are seeking a dynamic and innovative Director of Software Engineering to guide our software engineering teams towards delivering top-tier Emerging Consumer Payment solutions. This leadership role is crucial to our organization as we reshape the future of commerce.

Key Responsibilities:  

• Lead, mentor, and manage software engineering teams to deliver high-quality, resilient software solutions that meet or exceed business requirements.

• Drive the invention, design, and implementation of emerging consumer payment technologies.

• Work cross-functionally with product teams, other engineering teams, operations, and infrastructure teams to design, develop, and launch global products.

• Oversee decision-making processes for design trade-offs and long-term architecture planning.

• Promote a culture of innovation and continuous learning within the team, encouraging exploration of new technologies and solutions.

• Ensure delivery of highly available, enterprise-scale systems, leveraging innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology.

• Foster opportunities for team members to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities.

Key Skills & Experience:

• Proven leadership skills with a track record of managing high-performing engineering teams.

• Strong understanding of software development and a passion for technology.

• Expertise in one or more general programming languages like Java.

• Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with an emphasis on quality and scalability.

• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and adapt to changing environments.

• Excellent collaboration skills with a proven record of partnering with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams.

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), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

The Product Development division of the platform is undergoing a transformation to promote the adoption of a more secure, simplified checkout experience. This is being achieved through the introduction of new product capabilities within the Click to Pay ecosystem, which leverages Visa's tokenization and other features. To facilitate the onboarding of merchants and PSPs worldwide for various regional markets, Visa has partnered with multiple card schemes, adopting the EMVCo standard for Click To Pay as a solution. 

The Director role requires a strong technology and leadership background with experience building enterprise-scale applications using Java, Springboot, REST APIs, RDBMS, Angular/React, NoSQL, Kafka, and Hazelcast.

• Key responsibilities and requirements include:

• Responsibility for the overall development life cycle of the solution and management of complex products with significant bottom-line impact.

• Ability to work with and possibly interact with other teams across the globe.

• Work with product managers to develop a strategy and roadmap to provide compelling capabilities that help them succeed in their business goals.

• Work closely with senior engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.

• Instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements, and deliver high quality work on tight schedules.

• Project management skills: prioritization, planning of projects and features, stakeholder management, and tracking of external commitments.

• Operational Excellence: monitoring & operation of production services.

• Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards and processes.

• Mentor junior team members, develop departmental procedures and best practices standards.

• Hire and retain world-class talents to deliver platform product click to pay and scan to pay product features.

• Strong negotiation skills: You will be a distinguished ambassador for product development, collaborating, negotiating, managing tradeoffs, and evaluating opportunistic new ideas with business partners.

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.

Job Scope 

• As a Director (People Manager) in Data and AI Platform, you will manage Visa AI as Services development teams based in Bangalore, India where you will be responsible and accountable for end-to-end development and production support for Batch AI and Cloud platforms.  These platforms together enable economics of scale, regional expansion of Visa products and solutions across the globe enabling significant revenue. This position will be responsible for day-to-day management of a team of up to 12 AIML and Data Engineers, inclusive of fulltime and contingent staff and own the throughput and deliverables of the teams. 

Essential Functions 

• Responsible for end-to-end software engineering aspects of design, development, testing and deployment of platform to support global customer needs, product innovations and technical initiatives. 

• Responsible for technical capabilities of the product and the platform in terms of data design/architecture, UI/UX design/architecture, and API based backend systems. 

• Create and promote an agile development culture in his or her team focused on Engineering Excellence with high quality code development and deployment to production. 

• Facilitate knowledge transfer to the Engineering and Operations team during and after deployment. 

• Work with geographically distributed teams on technical challenges and process improvements. 

• Drive the strong automation culture with proven and open source-based technologies, frameworks, and best practices to reduce complexity and encourage operational excellence to the team. 

• Engage and communicate with stakeholders of business, product, technology, operations, and customer success teams. 

• Develop code, specifications, architecture and design documents as needed 

People Management: 

• Build and maintain a high performing team, hire and retain the right talents in the right roles. 

• Foster a culture of teamwork, collaboration, and mentoring. 

• Develop and empower direct reports to make appropriate technical decisions. 

• Ensure resource availability to support deployment activities in various environments 

• Effectively handle goal setting and team performance management 

• Identify process improvements and/or ineffective use of project hours and resources. 

• Manage development resources across multiple technologies including Big Data technologies, Virtualization, Containerization, AIML and various open source and public cloud offerings. 

• Work collaboratively with senior management, architecture, product management and lead development staff to develop broadly acceptable solutions. 

• Take complete responsibility of the full life cycle of projects and oversee software release implementations when required. 

• Demonstrate Visa's core values and maintain a positive and open demeanor.

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.

The Data and Artificial Intelligence Platform (DAP) group is a key component of Visa's Technology organization that provides the enabling technology and processes to handle Visa's data assets and deliver valuable information, products, and services to customers. DAP delivers secure, high-quality and easy-to-use Visa core data assets as a service, together with reliable and scalable data platform as a service, to enable Visa and our partners to rapidly and efficiently innovate data-driven business products and services to lead the digital payment industry. Areas of focus include Business Intelligence and Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data as a Service, and Platform as a Service etc. The portfolio comprises of over 60 data products & platforms for various external clients and internal lines of business. We provide services on behalf of traditional bank customers to millions of cardholders and merchants globally. Our application development is on the cutting edge of technology, and we are viewed as innovative leaders within our industry.

The Platform operationalizes the delivery of AI and decision intelligence to ensure ongoing business values. Built with composable AI capabilities, privacy-enhancing computation, and cloud native platforms, platform automates the updates to data, models, and applications. If you want to be in the exciting payment and AI space, learn fast, and make big impacts, this is an ideal place for you!

We are responsible for designing, developing, and implementing next generation data platforms to drive incremental revenue.

Essential Functions

• Strong technology and leadership background building enterprise scale applications using Java, Springboot, REST APIs, RDBMS, and Angular/React., NoSQL, Kafka, and Data Pipelines desirable.
• Responsible for the overall development life cycle of the solution and manage complex products with significant bottom-line impact
• Work with and possibly manage remote teams
• Work with product managers in developing a strategy and road map to provide compelling capabilities that helps them succeed in their business goals.
• Work closely with senior engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.
• Instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements, and deliver high quality work on tight schedules.
• Project management: prioritization, planning of projects and features, stakeholder management and tracking of external commitments
• Operational Excellence: monitoring & operation of production services
•  Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards and processes.
• Mentor junior team members, develop departmental procedures and best practices standards.
• Hire and retain world class talents to deliver data platform projects.
• Strong Negotiation Skills: You will be a distinguished ambassador for product development, collaborating, negotiating, managing tradeoffs and evaluating opportunistic new ideas with business partners

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.

• Lead a team of 10 to 15 members made up of both full-time employees and contractors.
• Deliver the product despite complex technical interdependencies with cross geographical teams.
• Be hands on with technical details and provide leadership to engineering teams by participating in design, performing design reviews, code reviews, test strategy alignment across teams.
• Build a culture of engineering excellence (quality, security, performance, scalability, availability, resilience etc.)
• Partner with product managers in developing a strategy and roadmap that align with business goals.
• Partner with remote teams to ensure alignment across product development.
• Drive down technical debt and cost of operations/support.
• Manage the prioritizations and delivery of enhancements and bug fixes on platform.
• Provide oversight for managed services work happening in your area.
• Ensure the process for incident management, change management and problem management are followed.
• Hire, retain and grow a high-performing team of software engineers.
• Invest in the career development of direct reports.

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.

Summary Of Position:

Alcon is on a mission to build an integrated suite of Digital Health products and experiences for its customers with a strong technology foundation, where a combination of devices, data management, applications, and services drives continuous improvement of patient outcomes. The Digital organizations vision is revolutionize the eyecare/ophthalmology space by leveraging digital health technology to enhance patient care and experiences.

At Alcon, we are accelerating the creation of a Foundational services engineering organization for Digital Health Products, with a focus on building, standardizing, and maintaining several core services to enable rapid development and deployment of innovative digital health solutions and accelerating time-to-market. We are seeking an experienced and visionary Director of Digital Health Foundational Services Engineering to lead the strategic development and implementation of foundational services critical to our digital health ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build secure and compliant Digital Health Cloud foundations.
• Integrate leading-edge customer identity solutions for enhanced security and personalized experiences.
• Develop customer integrations to Electronic Health Records (EHR) and non-Alcon medical devices for seamless interoperability and improved workflows.
• Establish modern DevOps foundations to enable agility and speed to market for new innovative digital products.
• Lead the design, development, and optimization of cloud-based platforms tailored for digital health solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
• Oversee the technical integration and maintenance of digital health products with customer systems, including electronic health records (EHRs), patient management systems, and other customer technology infrastructure.
• Collaborate with enterprise IT teams to integrate digital health solutions with existing enterprise systems
• Recruit, mentor, and manage a talented team of DevOps engineers responsible for building and maintaining common foundational services used across multiple digital health products.
• Implement agile development methodologies and best practices within the DevOps team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership to the engineering team, ensuring alignment with industry best practices, emerging technologies, and regulatory requirements in the healthcare space.
• Collaborate closely with product management, design, quality assurance, and customer success teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of foundational services within digital health products.
• Communicate regularly with executive leadership, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to provide updates on engineering initiatives, key milestones, and strategic direction.

Key Requirements/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or masters degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field  with a minimum of 10+ years of experience in software engineering roles, with at least 3 years in a leadership capacity focused on digital health or healthcare IT.
• Proven track record of successfully designing, implementing, and managing cloud-based platforms and integrations within the healthcare industry.
• Strong understanding of enterprise IT systems and integration patterns, particularly within healthcare settings.
• Experience building and leading DevOps teams, with a focus on automation, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and cloud-native technologies.
• Deep knowledge of agile development methodologies, DevOps practices, and modern software engineering tools and frameworks.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across teams and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to drive innovation, solve complex technical challenges, and deliver high-quality solutions in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Familiarity with healthcare regulations and standards, such as HIPAA, HL7, and FHIR.

Work hours: 1 PM to 10 PM IST

Relocation assistance: Yes

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Join the Ecosystem and Organizational Risk (EOR) team as a Senior Director for our Product Development group. We're a Value Added Services Technology function dedicated to safeguarding the security and integrity of the payment 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.

Essential Functions

• Drive the design, implementation and deployment of secure, reliable, robust and interoperable products.
• Drive excellence in engineering practices across the SSDLC.
• Partner with Product teams on requirements and prioritization. Influence product strategy and roadmap.
• Lead a multi-disciplinary team of software developers, data engineers, AI & ML experts, test engineers, release engineers.
• 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.
• Drive strategic impact for EOR by delivering fit-for-purpose products with an accelerated time to market.
• Ensure strong program management and governance practices for your team.
• Forge strong partnerships with key stakeholders across Technology & Business.
• Role model Visa Leadership Principles (VLPs)

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.

The technical leader will be responsible for:

Job Scope

• As a Director (People Manager) in Data Platform, you will manage the Data-as-a-Service development team based in Bangalore, India where you will be responsible and accountable for end-to-end development and production support for Visa Account Updater (VAU).  VAU is a key revenue generation value-added service, which solves outdated credentials problem for Cardholder, Issuer, Acquirer and Merchants, to support recurring and subscription-based payments. This position will be responsible for day-to-day management of a team of up to 12 data engineers and will also contribute to the development process.

Essential Functions

• Responsible for end-to-end software engineering aspects of design, development, testing and deployment for VAU product and platform capabilities to support global customer needs, product innovations and technical initiatives.
• Responsible for technical capabilities of the product and the platform in terms of data design/architecture, UI/UX design/architecture, and API based backend systems.
• Create and promote an agile development culture in his or her team focused on Engineering Excellence with high quality code development and deployment to production.
• Facilitate knowledge transfer to the Engineering and Operations team during and after deployment.
• Work with geographically distributed teams on technical challenges and process improvements.
• Drive the strong automate everything culture with proven and open source-based technologies, frameworks, and best practices to reduce complexity and encourage operational excellence to the team.
• Engage and communicate with stakeholders of business, product, technology, operations, and customer success teams.

People Management:

• Build and maintain a high performing team, hire and retain the right talent in the right role.
• Foster a culture of teamwork, collaboration, and mentoring.
• Develop and empower direct reports to make appropriate technical decisions.
• Ensure resource availability to support deployment activities in various environments
• Manage resources in alignment with forecast models.
• Set resource goals and delegate project work.
• Manage development of resources by setting and aligning business and technical expectations.
• Identify process improvements and/or ineffective use of project hours and resources.
• Drive consistency in artifacts and deliverables, budgets, and resource planning.
• Manage development resources across multiple technologies including Hadoop, Hive, Spark, HBase, MySQL, Java/Spring Boot/API backend, Python, HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Angular and other Open-Source technologies.
• Design and develop highly scalable and fault-tolerant systems using multiple technologies.
• Work collaboratively with senior management, architecture, and senior development staff to develop broadly acceptable solutions.
• Take complete responsibility of the full life cycle of projects and oversee software release implementations when required.
• Partner with Technical Product Management to identify clear business requirements
• Demonstrate Visa's core values and maintain a positive and open demeanor.

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.