Chief Systems Architect

22 Hours ago • 12-15 Years • System Design

Job Summary

Job Description

Visa is a global leader in payments and technology, processing billions of transactions annually across more than 200 countries. The Chief Systems Architect will lead and manage strategic initiatives within the Spend Clarity team, focusing on architecting and influencing technology across the platform. Responsibilities include overseeing initiatives, ensuring alignment with target architecture, creating innovative solutions, and collaborating with product owners and delivery teams. The role involves developing high-level architecture and design artifacts, guiding development teams, translating business requirements into secure and scalable designs, and prototyping new approaches. The architect will provide thought leadership on payment trends, stay updated on new technologies, and contribute to growing Visa Spend Clarity's capabilities with modern technologies. This hybrid position requires driving high-quality solutions, maintaining a view of the technology landscape, and supporting growth and innovation.
Must have:
  • 12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent.
  • High level of general technical knowledge.
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams in complex systems design.
  • Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
  • Experience leading large-scale transformation initiatives.
  • Experience in iterative or Agile delivery environments.
  • Experience leading complex, distributed, secure, and scalable architecture solutions.
  • Proven leadership experience in technical engineering teams.
  • Experience of stakeholder engagement including executive leadership.
Good to have:
  • Experience with DevOps based build-it, run-it teams.
  • Experience in influencing technical strategy and leading execution.
  • Experience with justification phase work (product discovery, opportunity analysis, business case formulation).
  • Experience with integrating legacy systems and modern technologies.

Job Details

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

As a Chief Systems Architect, you will lead and manage several strategic initiatives within the Spend Clarity team. This role focuses on strategizing, leading, and influencing architecture and technology across all of Visa Spend Clarity.

You will oversee and guide various initiatives, ensuring that developed solutions align with the platform's architectural and software target state. Your role involves creating innovative solutions that provide value to clients in an agile manner while fulfilling broader architectural goals.

Key responsibilities include collaborating with product owners and delivery teams to understand their key interests and manage non-functional expectations. You will work closely with a global team of architects and business experts to achieve our objectives.

You will deliver high-level architecture and design artifacts for large initiatives and guide development teams on detailed design artifacts. You will play a key role in ensuring business requirements are translated into secure, scalable, and efficient software system designs. The architecture group is a core part of the engineering team, participating in the entire software development lifecycle.

Whenever necessary, you will prototype new approaches to demonstrate the viability of creative initiatives and technologies. You will provide thought leadership on existing and emerging payment trends, developing a vision for specific solution areas with broad applicability. You will stay abreast of new technology trends, innovations, and demands from Visa's strategic partners to enhance existing products or create new solutions with faster time-to-market.

You will be part of a team focused on growing Visa Spend Clarity's capabilities and services to deliver scalable and robust solutions globally. With an engineering group of nearly 200 people, Visa Spend Clarity is a key focus area with large growth ambitions driven by customer needs and a desire to innovate using modern technologies.

Overall, a Chief Systems Architect plays a pivotal role in guiding architecture and engineering teams across the organization to deliver high-quality solutions, maintaining a comprehensive view of the technology landscape, and supporting Visa Spend Clarity's growth and innovation to meet customer needs and strategic goals.
 

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
• 12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 9 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
• 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience
• 12+ years’ experience in a Software Development environment.
• 8+ years’ experience as an architect.
• A high level of general technical knowledge including current, emerging and future technology trends and their potential business impact.
• Experience in leading cross-functional teams in the design, implementation and governance of complex systems and solutions.
• Ability to explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience in a way that is relevant, easy to consume and compelling.
• Experience of leading large-scale transformation initiatives, including the integration of legacy systems and modern technologies.
• Experience working in an iterative or Agile delivery environment, ideally including exposure to DevOps based build-it, run-it teams.
• Experience in leading delivery of complex, distributed, secure and scalable architecture solutions within a large organisation.
• Experience influencing technical strategy and leading execution of cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience with justification phase work – strategic product discovery, opportunity analysis, business case formulation.
• Proven leadership experience in leading technical engineering teams, preferably with a track record of successfully delivering complex architecture projects.
• Experience of stakeholder engagement including executive and/or senior leadership level.

Additional Information

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.

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About The Company

At Visa, we are driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. As our products and technology have evolved with the world, Visa remains ubiquitous, reaching new customers in new and often invisible ways. We are at the center of this digital revolution with a network that connects people with over 80 million businesses all over the world.

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