Sr. Director, Software Engineering

Visa; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Visa is seeking a Senior Director of Commercial Platform Engineering to lead enterprise-scale platform teams responsible for payments platforms. You will shape architecture, ensure security, scalability, and reliability while partnering with product, risk, and executives to deliver high-impact outcomes.

Responsibilities include setting strategy, driving cloud modernization, automation, and GenAI-enabled development practices to boost velocity and quality across the platform portfolio, with a

Qualifications

• 12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's degree, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience leading software/platform engineering at scale.
• Proven background managing managers and senior technical leaders across complex enterprise technology environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead platform engineering teams responsible for the full lifecycle of commercial payments capabilities, including architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, reliability, and production support.
• Set the engineering strategy and technical direction for large-scale distributed payment platforms with focus on performance, scalability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence.
• Own end-to-end delivery of enterprise platform initiatives from concept to roadmap planning, through release deployment and optimization.
• Drive modernization and cloud transformation efforts, establishing standards for cloud adoption, platform migration, and automation.
• Champion GenAI-assisted engineering practices to improve development velocity and code quality.

Skills

Leadership

Platform engineering

Cloud transformation

GenAI

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Kubernetes

Job description

About Us Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale - tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Job Description

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Director of Commercial Platform Engineering to lead enterprise-scale engineering teams responsible for the strategy, architecture, development, and delivery of modern commercial payments platforms. This leader will oversee the full lifecycle of critical payment acceptance capabilities for suppliers, partners, and internal stakeholders, ensuring platforms are secure, scalable, resilient, and aligned with business growth objectives.

The Senior Director will drive modernization, cloud transformation, automation, cross-platform integration, and GenAI-assisted engineering practices to improve engineering velocity, product quality, and developer effectiveness. This role requires a strong technical leader who can operate at both strategic and execution levels, partnering closely with product, technology, operations, infrastructure, risk, and business executives to deliver high-impact platform outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead platform engineering teams responsible for the full lifecycle of commercial payments capabilities, including architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, reliability, and production support.
• Set the engineering strategy and technical direction for large-scale distributed payment platforms, with a focus on performance, scalability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence.
• Own end-to-end delivery of enterprise platform initiatives, from concept and roadmap planning through execution, release deployment, and ongoing optimization.
• Drive next-generation capabilities for supplier and partner acceptance platforms, enabling seamless integrations, improved user experiences, and expanded business value.
• Lead modernization and cloud transformation efforts, establishing standards for cloud adoption, platform migration, cross-platform integration, automation, and secure software development.
• Champion GenAI-assisted engineering practices to improve development velocity, code quality, testing effectiveness, documentation, and overall developer productivity.
• Provide executive leadership in agile delivery environments, ensuring timely execution of strategic programs, committed modules, and product roadmap deliverables.
• Oversee automation framework strategy, testing modernization, CI/CD practices, release governance, and continuous integration activities across engineering teams.
• Partner with senior stakeholders and business leaders to define priorities, align technology investments with business outcomes, manage expectations, and resolve escalations.
• Accurately assess scope, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs, communicating impacts and mitigation strategies clearly to executive leadership, product teams, and cross-functional partners.
• Represent engineering in planning forums, executive reviews, escalation discussions, architecture governance, and roadmap prioritization sessions.
• Ensure strong data governance, system infrastructure readiness, platform reliability, and compliance alignment across supported products and services.
• Build, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, inclusion, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Establish metrics and operating mechanisms to track delivery performance, quality, reliability, security posture, operational health, and developer effectiveness.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 12+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, 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
• Significant experience leading software engineering, platform engineering, or technology delivery organizations at scale.
• Proven background managing managers and senior technical leaders across complex enterprise technology environments.
• Deep experience architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems, APIs, microservices, event-driven platforms, or high-volume transaction-processing systems.
• Strong understanding of commercial payments, payment acceptance, supplier platforms, partner ecosystems, or financial technology platforms preferred.
• Demonstrated

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.