Chief Software Engineer

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 As a Chief Software Engineer for the VISA Acceptance Platform team, you provide strategic architecture leadership to project architects and your product partners on large and complex projects for merchant payment management solutions. You will work along side a team of Lead and Chief Architects and also lead the Architecture requirements and strategy for Risk, Data and Analytics domain. You understand the business imperatives tied to these strategic projects. You provide technology leadership and are the technical expert on strategic projects, drive the release strategy and guide the delivery of strategic projects aligned to business strategy on innovative payment acceptance, integrated commerce management, powerful risk management and marketing tools. You maintain awareness of dependencies between projects and delivery vision, while ensuring engineering excellence to the six nines. You build the strategy for your teams to architect, design and deliver the next wave of enterprise FinTech innovation. Essential Functions Drives the architecture for key cross team / cross product development projects (via architecture/design documents and developing code key modules). Work with a team of Lead and Chief Architects for Acceptance, Risk, Data and Analytics domain and work closely with other site leads and stakeholders. Establishes software development patterns and best practices via examples and shipping code. Ensures that all relevant project teams follow a common set of principles and patterns and utilize a standard set of technology frameworks and libraries. Provides leadership across the engineering community to ensure solutions are built in alignment with platform principles and standards. Mentors and builds world-class high-performing engineering teams. Applies architecture best practices that helps increase execution velocity. Develops architectures that are inherently secure, robust, scalable, modular, API-centric and global. Influences technology selection for the enterprise. Defines deployment topology by working with peers across the technology organization. Optimizes use of Visa's Platforms & Solutions. Demonstrates thought leadership through presentations and teaching across Visa. Contributes to key Visa and CyberSource technology initiatives. 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 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 * BS/MS in Computer Science/Computer Engineering, Science, Math * A minimum of 15 years of experience in architecture and development, 5 years with experience in buildin