Sr. Director - Software Engineering (14 - 18 years of experience, Java full stack with React + GenAI experience is a must)

About Us

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Job Description

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce—and how we enable Visa talent to do their best work. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. Within People Technology, we apply the same engineering rigor to employee platforms and experiences—building secure, scalable, and reliable capabilities across the employee lifecycle (e.g., onboarding, HR services, manager enablement, and internal mobility).

The Opportunity:

We are seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead strategic and technical innovation for large-scale, distributed People Technology platforms that power Visa’s global workforce. This role is responsible for defining the long-term platform vision and driving a cloud-first, AI-first architecture to deliver highly available, secure, and performant systems at scale. As a senior leader, you will set a company-wide example of engineering excellence—enabling teams to plan effectively, execute with discipline, and continuously improve to deliver consistent, predictable outcomes. You will lead the design, development, and deployment of next-generation GenAI-powered solutions that support employees, managers, executives, recruiters, and People Business Partners through secure self-service, intelligent knowledge discovery, and workflow automation. Operating at the intersection of engineering, product, and HR strategy, you will collaborate closely with HR stakeholders, Product, Security/Privacy, and enterprise technology teams to translate complex business needs into scalable, measurable, and trustworthy solutions, ensuring strong governance, role-based access, auditability, and responsible use of employee data.

The Work itself: