Lead Systems Architect

Visa; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

This innovative firm is seeking a Lead Systems Architect to drive the architecture of its next-generation payments processing platform. You will leverage your extensive expertise in payment processing to design and develop future products, ensuring they meet the evolving needs of the global payments ecosystem. Collaborating closely with product teams, you will provide architectural guidance and contribute to the development of secure, scalable solutions. Join this purpose-driven industry leader and make a significant impact in a dynamic environment that values innovation and collaboration.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Health insurance

Retirement savings plan

Professional development opportunities

Remote work options

Wellness programs

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in relevant fields or advanced degrees.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead service and platform architecture for Open VisaNet.
• Collaborate with product leadership to define requirements.

Skills

Cloud-native technologies

Golang

C/C++

Kubernetes

Microservices

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Distributed system architecture

Kafka

REST

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

NoSQL

RDBMS

Job description

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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 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

About Open VisaNet

As Visa continues to innovate and evolve to meet ever changing needs of the global payments ecosystem, we are developing Open VisaNet (OVN), the next generation payments processing platform that will build on VisaNet’s success. This leverages modern architecture and development practices, core enhancements and the latest technologies to meet current and future requirements of our product teams, clients, and partners.

Responsibilities

Reporting to Sr. Director of Architecture, the Lead Systems Architect is responsible for service and platform architecture for Open VisaNet’s core payment processing stack.

Specific Responsibilities Include

• Leverage payment processing expertise in authorization, clearing, and settlement to ideate, design, and develop future OVN products and enhancements.

• Collaborate with product leadership to formulate and define requirements, facilitating the development of technical solutions across VisaNet systems.

• Develop detailed technical approach documents for projects, covering system and application development considering intersections with other initiatives and platforms.

• Provide architectural guidance to application development leaders to create adaptable and cost-efficient solutions for both tactical and strategic business needs.
• Serve as the point of contact for Engineers in solution design and build
• Review and sign off detailed design artifacts, as required, ensuring adherence to the high-level design and architectural vision of the OVN architecture

• Provide expert insight in the development of technical and customer facing documentation including technical release articles and VisaNet technical specifications.
• Consult on a regular basis with leadership to align expectations and deliverables

Secondary Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise across the organization in the areas of payment processing and the Open VisaNet stack.
• Foster collaboration across teams by mentoring and offering expert guidance as needed to develop the most secure, resilient, and scalable solutions.
• Stay updated with new technologies and incorporate them into strategic planning and roadmap efforts.

Flex Work Arrangement - Hybrid Position - 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 three days a week - Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Science, or Math
• Practical knowledge of VisaNet transaction processing, including Authorization, Clearing, Settlement, and related Value-Add Services.
• Experience in designing solutions for secure, scalable, and highly available systems is necessary.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills are required.
• Technical skills:
• Proficient in cloud-native technologies, such as Kubernetes, containers, microservices, serverless, DevSecOps, CI/CD, etc. (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Golang, C/C++
• Distributed system architecture and technologies, Kafka, gRPC, REST
• NoSQL and RDBMS
  
  

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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