Total 2 Director/C-Level job vacancies in Bangalore - AGS

Open VisaNet, is the Next Generation VisaNet, will push the envelope of building highly scalable, secure, cost effective and distributed application on commodity hardware using best-in-class technology components. Open VisaNet is one of Visas Key initiatives that will help Visa support in-country processing solutions and provide Visa an opportunity to move away from Proprietary Mainframe type systems. It is built as a modern distributed architecture based on micro services with goals of five 9s availability, fault tolerance, horizontal scalability and real time latency for largest scale transaction processing. Open VisaNet leverages state of the art Open Software technologies to achieve these goals on commodity hardware, such as Go, Scala, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Docker, Kubernetes, Aerospike, Elasticsearch etc. and involves collaboration with exceptional group of software engineers, systems performance engineers, security specialists, DevOps engineers, payment experts, infrastructure and solution architects.

Visa is looking for a passionate Devops Engineering leader to lead 8 -10 engineers who are part of Open VisaNet, Visas Next generation payment processing platform developed on Open Systems, that would fuel growth in electronic payments globally and drive financial inclusion in many parts of the world.  

Senior DevOps leaders with significant experience in building cloud-based platforms either in public or private cloud domains are preferred. We are looking for candidates who have strong technology foundation and previous hands-on design/coding skills for this role.  

Responsibilities include:

· Provide leadership and oversight to a team of software engineers building solutions and capabilities at scale and high engineering, quality standards & shift left security mindset.

· Partner with internal and external stakeholders to understand business problems and then design and develop required solutions.

· Provide technical thought leadership towards solving problems for the team.

· Drive the adoption of key engineering best practices to improve quality and reliability of teams deliverables.

· Responsible for keeping the team engaged, motivated and operating with a high execution velocity.

· Responsible for coaching, managing & mentoring of direct reports.

· Develop and nurture team of developers by motivating, mentoring, and assist in hiring critical talent.

· Design, develop and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components and solutions using core DevSecOps principles.

· Promote / evangelize GenAI adoption for developer productivity improvements across teams with relevant metrics. Develop all automation rails, as required, for measuring productivity.

· Improve DevSecOps maturity in tools and processes and measure them using relevant metrics.

· Design and build automated code deployment systems that simplify development work and make our work more consistent and predictable which includes CI/CD practices, pipelines and workflows, leveraging best-in-class CI/CD tools.

· Lead developer productivity projects in the areas of automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery / deployment, continuous observability and release engineering.

· Championing & driving application, infrastructure security efforts. Understand and own component security analysis, including code and data flow review. Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques. Championing & driving application, infrastructure & enterprise security efforts, certificate management etc.

· Work closely with Operations & Infrastructure teams, developers and other stakeholders for cross-functional development activities.

· Responsible for the stability and high availability of both production and lower environments.

· Design and implement APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve Continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous deployment problems

· Responsible for deploying code and other proactive maintenance activities to keep the services up and running.

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.

We are seeking a candidate with demonstrated ability to lead by influence with a record of successfully delivering modern, large-scale, complex service and products. This is accomplished by leading multiple large diverse technical teams at all levels and closely collaborate with program and product teams. 

You will provide hands-on technical leadership to multiple development teams. The focus is on defining, executing, and delivering functional and non-functional features at scale quickly and promoting a diverse culture of cross-functional collaboration and engineering excellence. Be an idea leader and bring industry best practices to benefit the team and the wider organization. The ability to balance demanding business capabilities with building for operational excellence while meeting regulatory, security and privacy requirements.

Ability to quickly grasp and evaluate new ideas and technologies from internal and external sources. Lead multiple teams, matching them with appropriate technology and business problems while building a culture of both innovation and a drive for excellence.

Visa is rapidly growing our Value-Added Services product portfolio across the globe, and the VAS Platform & Engineering organization is at the intersection of the numerous technologies, platforms and solutions enabling this growth.

Part of our network of global technology sites, Bangalore is an established and fast-growing hub for executing on our innovation, generative AI, and platform modernization efforts.  As the organizational lead for this site, you will oversee a diverse set of engineering teams and guide them as they deliver for their respective product partners.  This team is active in complex, multi-business stakeholder initiatives where innovative integration patterns are required, and emerging technologies are applied to enhance functionality and deliver more value to the market.

We need a proven technology leader with strong communication and organizational skills to drive both the execution of our immediate modernization plans as well as the definition of our strategic long-term solutions. Expertise in agile delivery, building purpose driven teams, and a background in complex integration projects involving multiple internal applications and 3rd party solutions is critical. Prior background in payments, and experience with Generative AI and Machine Learning is a strong plus.

The successful candidate will be comfortable navigating the challenging dynamic payments space and leading global teams responsible for platform transformation efforts. This candidate will also play a pivotal role in growing our VAS solutions footprint, seeking new paths to revenue by building modular, open solutions that will scale with our business.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for the overall development life cycle with significant bottom-line impact
• Deliver products with complex technical interdependencies collaborating with cross geographical development and product teams. Collaborate with Product Office, Operations & Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Client Support and other Product Development teams in developing complete solutions
• Build a culture of engineering excellence (quality, security, performance, scalability, availability, resilience etc.) across your own teams and the entire organization
• Partner with product owners in developing a strategy and roadmap that align with business goals
• Manage technical debt and costs within your product and organization budgets
• Influence adoption of best engineering practices, automations of software development, testing and deployment processes
• Manage the prioritization and delivery of enhancements and ongoing maintenance activities for multiple services
• Be responsible for the incident management, change, and problem management
• Hire, retain and grow high-performing and diverse global engineering teams.
• Invest in the career development of your employees with a strong focus on mentorship and training
• Lead with a strong client focus mindset across organizations
• Handle routine daily activities such as coordination, coaching, mentoring, recruiting, budgeting, planning, delivery, quality, partner relationships, performance metrics, operations, efficiency, service level management, etc.
• Recruit and manage an engineering team dedicated to the implementation of the VAS technology strategy
• Make a positive impact on Visa's VAS applications and solutions, foster innovation and explore new technologies such as Gen AI
• Spearhead the design and development of APIs to foster value generating integrations across our Value Added Services applications, platforms and solutions
• Progress our modernization roadmap, enabling us to expand our market reach and client base by adopting best-in-class technology solutions for our core platform

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.