Chief Systems Architect

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.

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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.

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.

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.