Sr. Director of Architecture

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

This position reports to the VP of Payment Products Development Architecture and Consulting and is responsible for managing the day-to-day activities of the Singapore Architecture team.

Responsibilities include: 

• Provide inspirational leadership and technical guidance to the architecture team 
• Mentor staff members to help them gain knowledge and achieve their career goals 
• Maintain staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees, maintaining a safe, secure, and legal work environment, developing personal growth opportunities 
• Partner with application developers, architects, engineers, and various groups supporting Payment Products Development systems and interfacing applications to drive new initiatives 
• Serves as liaison between the various organizational entities and builds relationships with members of these organizations 
• Keep senior management informed of progress and any obstacles impeding the successful architecture, implementation of projects and other departmental activities thru status reports, presentations, etc. 
• Demonstrate business acumen to work effectively with all levels of the organization to achieve key business and technology goals 
• Develop vision, strategies and roadmaps to meet business objectives with existing or emerging technologies by partnering with Product stakeholders 
• Contribute to the organizational development of the Architecture team including setting the vision, charter, goals and processes to encourage continual improvement
• Foster innovation and leverage new technologies 
• Apply creative thinking/approach to determine technical solutions that further business goals and align with corporate technology strategies, keeping in mind security, performance, reliability, scalability, usability, flexibility, and cost 
• Provide resource plans, budget tracking and forecasting. Manage the team to achieve target scope, schedule and cost objectives
• Instill best practices for software / systems architecture and documentation, assure conceptual approaches 
• Meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules 
• Operational Excellence: monitoring & operation of production services including understanding user experience and ensuring happy customers through partnering with your product support team 
• Career management and development of direct reports

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 2-3 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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualification

• 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 Requirements

• Deep technical and business knowledge of VisaNet, payments processing, the payments industry and emerging trends
• Expert in the payment business and products and services provided by VisaNet
• Understanding of the various regulatory environment(s) that guide Visa’s entry into various domestic markets
• Demonstrable experience with architecting solutions for highly scalable, highly available systems
• Excellent communication skills including a proven track record of producing artifacts for senior and executive audiences using MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Visio
• Ability to manage constantly changing priorities, whilst still guiding staff toward producing high quality deliverables - multi-tasking essential to handle multiple priorities with minimal direction from management
• Proven leadership capabilities with a record of exceeding expectations with respect to the How portion of the Visa Leadership Principles

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.