Lead Solution Architecture

Job Description

• Works closely with Visa TPMs and Product development teams to architect and propose solutions for their deployment
• Leads technical discussions with engineering leads and other architects, and resolves conflicts seamlessly
• Creates reusable and scalable designs that can be ingested as digital blueprints or cloud environment designs
• Produces detailed physical and logical infrastructure diagrams
• Provides detailed Technical Specification Documents (TSDs) for the designs architected for each project
• Provides leadership across the company by publishing best practices whitepapers, surveys, and by conducting brown bags
• Mentors junior architects on the team
• Provides increasingly better designs that are more efficient, cost effective, and robust
• Designs systems that are API-first, globally distributed, horizontally scalable, resilient, self-healable, and pluggable with other systems
• Influences hardware and software technology selection for the enterprise
• This is an Individual Contributor role

Qualifications

• 10 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering or Architecture or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology
• Hands on experience managing the software architecture of highly available enterprise level multi-tier applications and services utilizing technologies including DB2 ,MySQL, SQLServer, PostgreSQL databases, Microservices, Kubernetes, Kafka and distributed NoSQL databases along with a very good knowledge of the best practices associated with these technologies
• Very good understanding of self-healing/immutable microservice based architectures, cloud platforms, clustering models, networking technologies required
• Knowledge about API design standards, patterns and best-practices Swagger, OpenAPI, REST, SOAP, gRPC and API gateways

• 8+ years of experience as a Solution Architect or Cloud Services Architect
• 10 years’ experience architecting and designing large scale distributed systems
• 5 years’ experience architecting and delivering solutions on PaaS platforms
• Ability to articulate your deep understanding of benefits/drawbacks of different solutions
• Analytical and problem-solving skill and curiosity to tackle any complex or new problem
• Experience designing Issuer Processing and Payments Processing systems
• Deeper knowledge of PCI DSS Compliance considerations for payment systems
• Experience with data at rest, transit, and other security and privacy considerations
• Demonstrated experience working with private cloud environments running vSphere and Windows workloadsand cloud native environments using Kubernetes
• Ability to influence development teams and senior stakeholders to gain support for delivering solutions against a standardized methodology

Additional Information

• Incumbent must make themselves available during core business hours.

• This position requires the incumbent to travel for work 5% of the time.

• This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers, reach with hands and arms, and bend or lift up to 25 pounds.

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.