Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Job Description

Payments Industry is a very exciting and fast-developing area with a lot of new and innovative solutions coming to the 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 s 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 take the lead on one or more strategic initiative and manage a team of engineers and data scientists within our organization.

The right candidate will possess a strong software engineering background, with demonstrated leadership experience in driving technical architecture, design and delivery of products and services that have created business value and delivered impact.

• Responsible for building enterprise scale applications leveraging Data Engineering, AI/ML and GenAI technologies.
• Oversee the end-to-end product lifecycle, from ideation, research, design, development, testing, launch to post-launch evaluation.
• Foster an environment of innovation, encouraging the team to bring forward new ideas and solutions
• Act as a key liaison between the product team, executive leadership, and other stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment.
• Responsible for the overall development life cycle of the solution and manage complex products with significant bottom-line impact
• Work with geographically distributed global 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
• Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards and processes
• Hire, retain and grow world class engineering talent
• Mentor junior team members, develop departmental procedures and best practices standards
• 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. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.

• 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.

• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
• Requires 10 or more years of experience, at least 2 of which were in leading engineering teams
• Experience leading design and development of data pipelines and analytics platforms
• Experience leading product development & delivery of AI/ML solutions, applied to real-world problems
• Experience leading design and…