Director, DevSecOps Engineering

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.

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Job Description

Payment Products Development is at the heart of making Visa the best way to pay and be paid for everyone, everywhere. We are a globally distributed division of over 1,500 team members within Visa’s Technology organization. We partner with the business to design, build and support the global payment processing systems that drive Visa. As the trusted experts behind VisaNet, the dynamic payments network that connects consumers and merchants with financial institutions, we drive innovation for today and the future. PPD leverages technologies that span from the mainframe to state-of-the-art Open software technologies and involves collaboration with an exceptional group of software engineers, systems performance engineers, security specialists, DevOps engineers, payment experts, infrastructure and solution architects.

This Director position plays a critical role leading a team of talented professionals and engages directly with divisional leadership, development, cyber security, and release engineering teams to ensure timely release of secure and resilient payments processing systems. The candidate would be a Technology leader with strong technology foundation and previous hands-on design/coding skills.

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and oversight to a team of software engineers building solutions and capabilities at scale and high engineering, quality standards leveraging DevSecOps principles & shift left security mindset.
• Design, develop and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components and solutions using core DevSecOps principles.
• 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.
• Promote / evangelize GenAI adoption for developer productivity improvements across teams with relevant metrics.
• Work closely with Operations & Infrastructure teams, developers and other stakeholders for cross-functional development activities and tools development.
• Design and implement APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve Continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous deployment problems.
• Ensure the Payment Products Development teams remain proactive and avoid any out of compliance situations.
• Promote and support Cyber Security as an enabler of Payment Products Developments core business processes, educating the teams on Security findings, vulnerabilities, remediation, systems, processes, security programs, etc.
• Prescribe security improvements for Payment Products Development environments to resolve or mitigate security findings or otherwise enhance security posture to achieve compliance with all security initiatives.
• Responsible for coaching, managing & mentoring of direct reports.
• Respond to urgent Cyber Security, and Operational Resiliency issues at any time, and escalate them as required.
• Build an extensive network of positive relationships throughout Visa and its Technology organizations to be leveraged to accomplish the broad requirements of this position.

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.

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
•4+ years of direct people management experience.
•Experience in implementing DevOps practices and tools to drive environment automation.
•Strong knowledge of working with DevSecOps design patterns, processes and best practices.
•Working knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle including version control, build process, testing, and code release, on mainframe and open systems platforms.
•Demonstrated hands-on experience with DevOps techniques building continuous integration solutions using Jenkins, Docker, Git, Maven.
•Experience with distributed database, distributed computing and high frequency transactions is a big plus.
•Hands on, deep expertise in at least one programming language required, Java or Golang preferred.
•Must be proficient in one or more scripting languages: Unix Shell (bash, ksh), Python, Jenkins/Groovy, Go or similar.
•Mature understanding of Cyber Security, Audit, Risk and Compliance “best practices” including principles, protocols and standards.
•Understanding of common Cyber Threat terminology, vulnerability, and penetration test methodologies are a plus.
•Experience working with GenAI models or project level working knowledge involving the development or application of GenAI models.
•Strong ability to lead, coordinate, and motivate multi-disciplinary teams across organizational boundaries, in a fast-paced, change intensive environment.
•Proven ability to mentor/manage and motivate a team of experienced technologists and set clear priorities to achieve department goals.
•Exceptional critical thinking skills and thought leadership with the ability to quickly comprehend complex problems, draw logical conclusions, make sound decisions, develop solutions, and negotiate and respond accordingly to drive closure of complex challenges.
•Proven history of being a self-starter by proactively identifying problems, determining pragmatic solutions, identifying, and obtaining needed resources, and executing with little or no supervision.
•Articulate communicator, demonstrating mastery of both spoken and written English, with the professional confidence and credibility to effectively engage and interact with senior and executive management.

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.