Vice President of Architecture, Commercial and Money Movement Services - job 16 of 20

Visa is seeking a seasoned and highly motivated leader to manage the Architecture function within the Commercial and Money Movement Solutions Product Development (CMS PD) group. CMS is a strategic growth pillar for Visa that will deliver significant revenue for the company over the coming years. 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.

This leader will be an integral member of the CMS PD leadership team reporting into the SVP, CMS PD.  This new role will provide architectural leadership to all CMS PD product development activity, lead the definition of target states and provide leadership towards adoption of architectural best practices/patterns across a very large development team. The role will partner closely with senior business and product leaders to define multi-year strategic plans, lead the definition of solutions for large new opportunities and drive integration and platform convergence activities for acquired entities.

Key Responsibilities

• Define technology strategy and vision for CMS PD in alignment with the broader CMS and Visa business strategy and objectives
• Partner with CMS business and product leaders to develop multi-year strategic outlook plans and annual operating plans
• Lead a global team of senior technologists that provide expertise on all aspects of architecture - domain, platform and cybersecurity 
• Drive adoption of architectural best practices/patterns and governance models that ensure top quality product development, Utilize prior experience and knowledge to ensure platforms are architected to deliver the highest level of availability, scalability and security characteristics
• Lead effort to build out of target state architectures for existing product lines and platforms, bring proactive focus on evolving the stack to target in a phased approach that is aligned with our business objectives
• Lead the effort to harmonize frameworks/tools that developers use and drive the build out of common platform components
• Drive acquired entity integration and product convergence efforts - Role will play an important part in identifying opportunities, defining solutions and working with very senior stakeholders on decisioning and execution
• On large, new opportunities, partner directly with strategic clients on solution definition and delivery

• Demonstrate thought leadership and influence through presentations, paper publications and knowledge sharing across Visa.

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 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.