Director Of Engineering Visa

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Job Description

As a dynamic and innovative leader with a proven track record of delivering modern, large-scale, and complex services and products powered by transformative technologies, you will excel at leading through influence, inspiring high-performing and diverse technical teams at all levels of the organization. Your role will involve providing hands-on technical leadership for multiple development teams, focusing on defining, executing, and delivering both functional and non-functional features on a large scale. Cultivating a culture of cross-functional collaboration and engineering excellence will be key to championing new ideas and introducing industry best practices to benefit both the team and the broader organization. Balancing business needs and innovative solutions with operational excellence, while adhering to regulatory, security, and privacy standards, will be crucial in achieving success. Your responsibilities will include rapidly evaluating and integrating new ideas and technologies from internal and external sources, aligning them with emerging business opportunities to help build a culture of innovation and a relentless drive for excellence. As the organizational lead for the Bangalore technology hub at Visa, you will oversee diverse engineering teams, guiding them to deliver results for their respective product partners. Your teams will participate in complex multi-stakeholder initiatives where innovative integration patterns and emerging technologies are leveraged to enhance functionality and deliver greater value to the market. Your leadership will be instrumental in spearheading the design, development, and implementation of innovative technologies and solutions, including generative AI and modern integration patterns. Foster a culture of innovation by encouraging experimentation, knowledge sharing, and the adoption of emerging technologies within the engineering team. Champion the design and development of APIs that integrate Value-Added Services applications, platforms, and solutions to drive incremental business value. Develop and execute a strategic vision for the VAS platform that aligns with Visa's business goals and market opportunities. Identify new market opportunities and enhance existing products to support business growth and platform modernization. Lead the execution of the product modernization roadmap, ensuring scalability, reliability, and alignment with industry best practices. Take ownership of the end-to-end software development lifecycle, ensuring timely delivery of quality, secure, and high-performing solutions with significant business impact. Promote engineering excellence by driving best practices in quality, security, performance, scalability, and resilience. Manage technical debt, optimize development costs, and oversee the prioritization and delivery of enhancements and maintenance activities for multiple services. Drive automation in software development, testing, and deployment processes to enhance productivity and time-to-market. Ensure effective incident, change, and problem management within the platform. Hire, retain, and develop high-performing, diverse, global engineering teams. Invest in career development through mentoring, coaching, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement. Build purpose-driven teams with a strong focus on accountability, collaboration, and innovation. Collaborate cross-functionally with geographically distributed development, product, operations, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and support teams to deliver complete solutions. Engage directly with clients and key stakeholders to understand needs, gather feedback, and ensure the VAS platform delivers exceptional value and innovation. Oversee daily operations including budgeting, planning, resource management, delivery tracking, quality assurance, partner relationships, and performance metrics. Ensure compliance with regulatory, security, and privacy standards across all development activities. Continuously assess and improve technology stacks, development processes, and methodologies to enhance productivity, quality, and efficiency. Lead initiatives to modernize and scale the VAS platform, expanding market reach and client base through best-in-class technology solutions. This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager. Basic Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related engineering field, with 15+ years of relevant work experience. Preferred Qualifications: - Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters or PhD) with 14+ years of relevant experience with highly technical and hands-on. - Hands-on experience with emerging technologies, including Generative AI and Machine Learning. - Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. - Experience building microservices using HTTP, REST, JSON, and XML. - Demonstrated experience as an innovation leader, successfully guiding engineering teams to deliver new products or features to the market. - Proven track record in managing software development teams delivering highly available, enterprise-level, distributed applications using languages such as Java, Python, C, Golang, or similar. - Deep understanding of Agile methodologies and software development lifecycle. - Experience working in complex organizational environments, interpreting business and customer needs, and delivering optimal solutions. - Ability to articulate technical and business issues and solutions to various internal and external stakeholders to support organizational objectives. - Skilled in establishing technical goals for projects, defining actionable success metrics, and tracking progress. - Strong experience in coordinating multiple product and technical teams, adept at removing roadblocks and collaboratively solving complex problems. - Exceptional verbal, written, presentation, and facilitation skills, with the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and concisely to diverse audiences. - Experience delivering integrated solutions composed of both internally developed applications and third-party commercial offerings. - Proficient in measuring services from the user experience perspective, setting and monitoring SLAs and KPIs.,