Lead Architect - Software Engineering (Java, Microservices)

The Marketing, Sales and Services Technologies Team at Visa is looking to hire an experienced and self-motivated technologist with a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. Our applications are engineered for security, reliability and scalability, running full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our engineers are passionate about innovation, coding standards & best practices.

You will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers, use your deep understanding of the systems, technology and working with engineering teams to develop solution strategies to help improve overall product and customer experience. You will demonstrate executive level qualities, lead the conversation while being extensively involved hands on to lead cross-functional teams of experts to help design, plan, implement, strategize. The ideal candidate will be flexible and willing to switch tasks based on company s priorities, and should be capable to work across the layers and technologies stack. The position requires hands on experience building complex applications and strong knowledge of web technology stack -RESTful APIs, Java / Spring boot, NoSQL data stores etc.

Essential Functions
• Work on emerging technologies, building distributed applications
• Partner with Product on implementation strategy.
• Drive development effort End-to-End for on-time delivery of high quality solutions that conform to requirements, conform to the architectural vision, and comply with all applicable standards.
• Collaborate with senior technical staff and PM to identify, document, plan contingency, track and manage risks and issues until all are resolved
• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.
• Ensure operational excellence - capabilities (usability, availability, resilience, security, etc.) are assessed, planned and built into the platform.
• Identify and implement opportunities in the platform that will drive improvements in performance, scalability, reliability and re-usability.

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 two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs