Payments Industry is a very exciting and fast-developing area with lot of new and innovative solutions coming to market. With strong demand for new solutions in this space, it promises to be an exciting area of innovation. VISA is a strong leader in the payment industry and is rapidly transitioning into a technology company with significant investments in this area.
If you want to be in the exciting payment space, learn fast and make big impacts, Ecosystem & Operational Risk technology which is part of Visa’s Value-Added Services business unit is an ideal place for you!
In Ecosystem & Operational Risk (EOR) technology group, the Payment Fraud Disruption team is responsible for building critical risk and fraud detection and prevention applications and services at Visa. This includes idea generation, architecture, design, development, and testing of products, applications, and services that provide Visa clients with solutions to detect, prevent, and mitigate fraud for Visa and Visa client payment systems.
We are in search of inquisitive, creative, and skillful technologists to join our ranks. We are currently looking for a Senior Manager of Software Engineering who will lead and manage several strategic initiatives within our organization.
The right candidate will possess strong software engineering background, with hands on technical skills and leadership experience in driving technical architecture, design and delivery of products and services that have created business value and delivered impact within the payments or payments risk domain or similar industries
This position is ideal for an engineering leader who is passionate about collaborating with business and technology partners and engineers to solve challenging business problems. You will be a key driver in the effort to define the shared strategic vision for the Payment Fraud Disruption platform and defining tools and services that safeguard Visa’s payment systems.
To be successful in this role, the candidate need to be a technical leader with the ability to engage in high bandwidth conversations with business and technology partners and be able to think broadly about Visa’s business and drive delivery of solutions that will enhance the safety and integrity of Visa’s payment ecosystem. The candidate will help deliver innovative insights to Visa's strategic products and business. This role represents an exciting opportunity to make key contributions to strategic offering for Visa. This candidate needs to have a strong academic track record and demonstrate excellent software and data engineering background. The candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, and excellent collaboration skills.
The ideal candidate will bring the excitement and passion to leverage Generative AI to advance existing fraud detection mechanisms and to innovate and solve new fraud use cases. This engineer will use code generation capabilities like GitHub copilot to drive efficiencies in software development
Essential Functions
As a Senior Manager of Software Engineering in EOR Technology team, you will lead initiatives to architect, enhance, and build next generation fraud detection platforms in an agile development environment
Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner
Drive projects that involve full stack development using Java, SpringBoot, NodeJS, Microservices, Rest based APIs, frontend frameworks like Angular and Spark/Scala based processing on Hadoop platform
Drive solution architecture and technical architecture with product owners, engineers, and technical product managers to scale products to highly functional, secure, performant, and resilient platforms
Lead development teams on projects and be responsible for end-to-end execution and delivery to KPIs on Payment Fraud Disruption platform roadmap commitments
Excel in partnership with technical product managers, project managers and product leaders on requirements workshops and grooming, and help define joint product/technology roadmap
Drive release planning exercise, track development and testing to timely releases
Contribute to financial planning and roadmap planning for new and existing initiatives
Collaborate across engineering teams and leaders in EOR, Operations, and Infrastructure (O&I), security and platform teams.
Enable and inspire teams to an innovation mindset, high levels of engagement and performance
Develop a culture of high levels of accountability and ownership with the team
Establish metrics and attain high scores on engineering, delivery excellence, and product performance
Communicate for success with partners in program management, product office, operations, and other stakeholders
Develop and measure design, code governance and delivery practices to achieve consistent high-quality releases
Coach/Mentor/Grow engineers and performance management
Hire top software engineers and help build a highly talented engineering organization
Manage multiple projects and initiatives with competing timelines and demands.
Act decisively on continuous improvements to processes/tools for better developer efficiency and productivity
Lead product development with engineering teams across multiple geographies
Able to work on multiple projects and initiatives with different/competing timelines and demands.
Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner
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 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.