Lead System Architect, Solutions Architecture

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 and Responsibilities

You will be part of a dynamic team of solution engineers who deliver, integrate & architect highly available and scalable infrastructure solutions for on-prem container platform, public clouds, focusing on Kubernetes, cloud technologies and automation skills. As trusted advisors and partners of our stakeholders drive solutions to production through strong technical guidance and execution excellence maximizing developer productivity.

Essential Functions

• You will play a leading role to deliver secure, highly available and scalable infrastructure solutions and its associated automation
• Experienced with docker, container and Kubernetes for container orchestration
• Extensive experience in driving the design and implementation of solutions on one of the major public clouds, such as AWS, GCP & Azure with expertise in assessing, developing or migrating well architected applications for containers and cloud
• Own and lead initiatives to define, design, and implement cloud-based (private and public) solutions including reference architectures, estimates, and deployment
• Lead transformation of ideas into clear technical requirements to formalize technical designs
• Design and build using infrastructure as code and automated testing
• Develop standard automation templates for deployment of public cloud infrastructure and platform components
• Work closely with cross-functional groups including internal stakeholders (Product Managers, Engineers, Architects, etc.), and external customers and vendors to formalize roadmaps & priorities

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

Basic Qualifications
•10+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications

•12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
•Demonstrated experience with hands-on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development and deployment in Hybrid Cloud (AWS, Azure and GCP) deployments
•Experience in designing, building, and supporting large-scale production systems in cloud or migrating to the cloud, automated testing, autoscaling, and self-healing
•Well versed with Well Architected frameworks driving Operation excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance efficiency, Cost Optimization

•Strong understanding and experienced with containerization technologies and cloud-native Application Architecture

•Experience in infrastructure as code with tools such as Terraform, Pulumi and configuration management tools such as Ansible
•Good understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle including Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline architecture
•Solid understanding of various AWS/GCP/Azure services such as networking, compute, database and storage
•Proficient in programming/scripting Python, Terraform, Ansible and/or other IaC frameworks
•Good understanding of the Software Development Process including Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CICD) pipeline tools such Jenkins and proficient in git and VCS such as BitBucket, Github
•Proven ability to lead with passion and execute vision with little guidance and ability to make independent judgments and decisions within established guidelines

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: 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.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 160,600.00 to 232,900.00 USD per year, 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.