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Lead System Architect


Visa


Location

Bangalore | India


Job 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



Job Description

 

The VAS Architecture & Platform organization is leading Visa's transformation in architecting, developing, and deploying Value Add Services across our business solution verticals & commercial platforms. A key responsibility of the VAS Innovations Team is focused on delivering innovations leveraging the big-3 public cloud vendors such as GCP, AWS and Azure. These initiatives include creating service and tools, delivering proof of concepts and enabling the migration of existing workloads to public cloud. In addition, delivering innovations that leverage the latest cutting-edge technologies such as GenAI andAI/ML are core to the team’s DNA.

 

The VAS Innovations team is seeking a dynamic Sr Staff Engineer and Architect. You will play the critical role in defining the architecture and technical vision for the VAS group within Visa Inc. You will be a collaborator who will be depended on by delivery and execution teams to offer technical guidance and solution designs leveraging your expertise. In this role, you will have the opportunity to define and execute on the overall VAS strategy for achieving the goal of scalability, availability, 6 x 9s and performance for VAS services, in the areas such as system architecture, software deployment, security, observability, infrastructure and SRE practices.

 

VAS develops and operates multiple product and platform applications including Acceptance, Risk and ID, Acceptance, and Issuing Solutions among others which power many consumer payment experiences of our clients. You will have the opportunity to learn these products and your work will have direct impact to the experiences of the end consumers.

 

The successful candidate to fill this role will have a strong architecture background and a good understanding on architecture principles for high availability/scalability leveraging cloud technologies, whilst possessing effective communication and collaboration skills. 

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.

Qualifications



Basic

Qualifications


10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.
•5+ years of experience as a software or solution architect
•Hands-on experience in microservices, container, orchestration & deployments
•Public cloud technologies (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
•GenAI experience, Copilot, ChatGPT, LLMs, RAG model and Prompt experience
•Strong communication and collaboration skills

Preferred
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
•5+ years as a software or solution architect providing solution guidance to build either business or technology capabilities in collaboration with engineering teams
•Experience with migrations from On-Prem systems to Public, Hybrid and Multi-Cloud
•GenAI experience, Copilot, ChatGPT, LLMs, RAG model and Prompt experience
•Security Expertise, security best practices, compliance & data protection Kubernetes & Container skills, working both on-prem and in public cloud
•Microservices, container and orchestration, deployment architecture, SRE practices, observability tools, and database systems
•Ideal candidates will have direct experience in creating solutions that are resilient, scalable, and observable in multi data center settings
•Experience in SRE and DevOps organization a plus
•Possess excellent problem solving, analytical, and communication skills.
•Strong communication and collaboration skills

Skills

•Cloud Native, Kubernetes, Containers, Docker, Istio, ServiceMesh, Rancher
•Security, Solid understanding of key security concepts, SSL, TLS, Certs, Keys
•Operating systems, Linux, Unix, RHEL, Ubuntu, Windows
•Networking, TCP IP, IP addresses, DNS, BGP, eBPF, firewalls
•Programming languages, Java, Python, C Sharp
•Certifications, AWS Solution Architect or Engineer, Azure MCSE, Cloud Platform and Infrastructure

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.


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