Vice President, Software Development Engineering

Visa; London; Hybrid; GBP 161,000 - 295,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payment technology company in London is looking for a Vice President of Engineering to lead product development in Commercial and Money Movement Solutions. Ideal candidates will have over 12 years of experience, excellent leadership skills, and a strong background in cloud-native architecture and payments. This hybrid role offers competitive salary and benefits.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Paid Time Off

Wellness Program

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience with Bachelor's or 10+ years with Advanced Degree.
• Experience leading global software engineering teams of 100+.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC principles and practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop multi-year strategic outlook plans for the product vertical.
• Define technology strategy for product vertical aligning with business objectives.
• Manage a large team implementing scalable software systems.

Skills

Leadership in software engineering

Agile methodology

Cloud-native architecture

Analytical reasoning

Payments industry knowledge

Education

Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Degree

Job description

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

Visa is seeking a seasoned and highly motivated leader in the Commercial and Money Movement Solutions Product Development (CMS PD) group in the role Vice President, Engineering reporting to Senior Vice President, CMS PD.

Commercial and Money Movement Solutions (CMS) is a strategic growth pillar for Visa that will deliver significant revenue for the company over the coming years. CMS is focused on driving Visa’s strategy to expand beyond core Consumer to Business (C2B) payments into broader money movement flows across individuals, businesses, and governments. The CMS PD team within Visa Technology is chartered with building the platforms and product capabilities that will directly enable the growth aspirations of our CMS business.

As Vice President Engineering in CMS PD, you will be a key leader in our organization chartered to infuse next generation thinking into product development practices, anticipate and leverage emerging technologies for strategic advantage, and drive innovation initiatives to deliver a highly differentiated product offering to our clients.

Essential Functions:

• Partner with business counterparts to develop multi-year strategic outlook plans for the product vertical.
• Define technology strategy for your product vertical in alignment with established business objectives.
• Provide leadership and oversight to a large team (200+) of technology leaders and developers implementing highly scalable, low-latency, high-throughput software systems that have five 9s plus availability.
• Own the planning, design, and delivery of all product development roadmap items for the vertical.
• Establish a culture of engineering excellence with focus on delivering high quality products to production.
• Ensure security and operational posture of the platform meets the highest standards.
• Hire top engineering leaders and talent, provide mentoring, coaching and guidance to your staff.
• Drive developer productivity through adoption of innovative technologies/tools and engineering fundamentals & best practices.
• Establishing a culture that values ownership, accountability and creates an environment that enables innovation and continuous improvement.
• Represent technology in relevant board and regulatory engagements.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA/JD/MD) or at least 8 years of work experience with a PhD.

Preferred Qualifications

• 15 or more years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, PhD).
• Experience in leading large, global software engineering technology teams of 100+ across multiple time zones and cultures.
• Experience in design, architecture, and engineering of highly available, secure, resilient, and scalable systems.
• Experience in implementing cloud-native architectures and design patterns.
• Excellent knowledge of core engineering best practices and the ability to implement these across the team.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC principles and practices.
• Experience working in an Agile based product development setup and matrixed organizations.
• Demonstrated experience in change management concerning the adoption of modern & innovative technologies.
• Experience in crafting a collaborative and innovative work culture that encourages risk-taking and fosters excellence.
• An ability to combine analytical reasoning, creativity, and judgment in handling complex matters, with multiple initiatives going on simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, grow, nurture, retain, and lead high-caliber technical talent.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills - in particular, the ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels internally and externally as needed to support the strategic goals.
• Deep Payments industry knowledge highly desired. 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 3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site).

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 220,000 to 400,000, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.

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.

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.