Senior Manager (Java)

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.

Visa's Technology Organization

The Opportunity:

We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Engineering Managers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Visa engineering leader, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions. As a Senior Manager, Engineering, you will lead and mentor teams delivering innovative CMS solutions, fostering a culture of technical excellence, and driving adoption of GenAI to accelerate delivery of new payment flows, deepen client relationships, and diversify Visa's revenue streams.

The Work itself:

• Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa's internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability
• Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings
• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads
• Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions.
• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Virtual Card Platforms, and Next Generation Technology
• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for building a strong team and developing products for commercial platforms and solutions that increase acceptance globally.
• Inspire and lead your team to deliver strategic and novel approaches that help optimize Visa's approach to growth, the client-facing products, and streaming payment processing and guide ongoing product decisions.
• Partner with business for market research across the B2B transaction eco system to understand the key impediments to Visa's acceptance for commercial transactions.
• Grow and expand your expert team with an eye toward diverse and forward pushing skills that span data engineering, experimentation, and building of resilient solutions.
• Build an inclusive team culture that is innovative and collaborative.
• Lead strong partnerships key stakeholders including product management, engineering, design, and operations.
• Engage in technical and functional implementations with all engineering teams with strong interpersonal and organizational skills to effectively manage multiple work streams.
• Enjoy having a strategic impact at all levels, including interacting with other leaders on tangly issues and applying strong judgment and analysis toward important business decisions.
• Articulate with both technical and business partners to create effective frameworks to aid the discussion of complicated topics.
• Naturally conscious of who needs to know what and proactively seek to share important context accordingly.

The Skills You Bring

• Energy and Experience

  : A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale

• Challenge the Status Quo

  : Comfort in pushing the boundaries, hacking beyond traditional solutions

• Language Expertise

  : Expertise in one or more general development skills Java, Microservices, SQL/NOSQL, Kafka, Container, CICD, GenAI etc.

• Builder

  : Experience building and deploying modern services and API applications with quality and scalability

• Learner

  : Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.

• Partnership

  : Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualification:
8+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 11+ years of relevant work experiencePreferred Qualifications 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

Built, managed and mentored teams of innovative and collaborative software engineers

Track record of driving GenAI adoption within engineering teams to enhance operational excellence and deliver innovative, value-added services at scale.
Proficient in Java/J2EE/REST technologies and frameworks likeSpring/SpringBoot, Sprint MVC, JPA, Hibernate etc., Experience in API Development for producers and consumers adhering to allstandards for security and reliability. Proven experience delivering highly scalable and available production systems. Experience in Microservice architecture, Containers Orchestration (Kubernetes,Docker etc.,) Familiarity with GenAI tools such as GitHub copilot, chatGPT, Claude, Copilotfor Microsoft 365, and other relevant platforms Preferred understanding of generative AI models and tools, such as GPT, Llama,and Anthropic etc., and using MCP (Model Context Protocol) Experience with system design and tech stack upgrade to build highly available,secure, maintainable, performing, and scalable applications. Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail Experience in driving the production/customer reported issues to closure. Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and effective communication skills (bothwritten and verbal) Strong business acumen, ability to grasp big picture and explain to team insimple terms. Experience working with cross-functional, cross-geo location with commonobjective as OneTeam. Demonstrated ability to lead and navigate through ambiguity. Experience developing & leading teams as part of Agile/Scrum team. Engage with various stakeholders in triaging issues on time and provideprecise and timely updates to stakeholders and Senior Management.

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.