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

We are building a Technology Platform that will enable fast and ubiquitous push payments across a range of domestic and cross border use cases aiming to capture significant revenue opportunity across P2P, B2SB, and B2C flows and value-added services. Built on the latest standards and tech stack and providing open APIs, this platform will help drive innovation in the entire ecosystem.

We value creative and driven individuals who love to own their products, and design and implement solutions that create a seamless experience for consumers and clients. Our developers work across the stack, and are experts in service oriented architectures and technologies such as Java 8, J2EE, Spring, Oracle, MongoDB, React JS, Cassandra, Hazelcast, Kafka, Kubernetes and Docker

As we embark on the journey to enhance the Visa Direct technology platforms under CMS Product Division, we are looking for a Senior Consultant who can participate in the detailed design and development activities for this product build.

The role involves extensive hands-on activities. Here are key job responsibilities

Understand the Payments industry and where Visa Direct fits in the payments ecosystem Understand the business initiatives and their importance to the growth of Visa Direct. Develop a good understanding of the Visa Direct and Visa Payments Limited technology platforms and the 3 rails of money movement – cards, accounts and wallets. Collaborate with product owners and technical staff globally to define requirements for new features and enhancements to the platform.

Evaluate technical options and provide recommendation on scope and scale of effort required to develop an end-to-end solution. Manage and mentor a team of talented engineers. Take ownership and lead the engineering responsibility for multiple components of the platform with a focus on security, high scalability 3000+ tps, and six nines of availability. Actively participate in defining architecture and creating solution documents consistently, be hands-on with low level design, code review, coding and unit testing activities. Coordinate engineering activities across the delivery of the project and work with engineers to ensure they are delivering efficiently and to high quality standards. Co-ordinate and influence business and technology partners spread across different regions to mitigate these risks. Ability to identify and manage risks at all stages of the project. Build a culture of engineering excellence within the team drive adoption of practices like continuous integration, security, code reviews, code coverage, code quality and shift left practices. Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards, processes and systems.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager. 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's 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
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field with a minimum of 10+ years of Software Development Experience or a Master's in computer science or related field with a minimum of 9+ years of Software Development Experience.
• Led and delivered complex projects where complexity is a function of a combination of these factors domain knowledge, distributed architecture, technical stack, influencing and collaborating with multiple technology partners and business partners
• Experience as a technical leader with ability to understand the requirements and independently, architect, design and build large scale resilient enterprise applications.
• Experience of managing an engineering team of 6-8 people for at least 3 years is mandatory.
• Proficiency in Java 8+ (Core Java, memory management, concurrency, functional programming) and experience with REST APIs, JSON and exposure to container-based technologies.
• Experience with Agile development incorporating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Triton, Chef, Sonar, Clover, JUnit, Mockito.
• Experience with shift left practices and performance testing applications.
• Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques.
• Passion to work with people and help mentor your team to reach new heights.
• Experience in the Payment domain is a plus.

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.