Sr. Director - Software Engineering (18+ years' exp, Java, AWS, AEM, GenAI)

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 global community of problem solvers and innovators shaping the future of commerce. We operate one of the world’s most sophisticated payment and risk processing networks—capable of handling more than 65K secure transactions per second across 80M merchants, 15K financial institutions, and billions of consumers worldwide. Our teams tackle some of the most complex challenges in distributed systems, global-scale platforms, cybersecurity, data, and next-generation B2C and B2B experiences.

We are seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to provide strategic and technical leadership for large-scale, distributed foundational services. This role is responsible for defining long-term platform vision, driving a cloud-first and cloud-native architecture, and ensuring the delivery of highly available, secure, and performant systems at global scale.

As a senior technology leader, you will operate at the intersection of engineering excellence, product strategy, and business outcomes, influencing enterprise-wide architecture decisions and shaping Visa’s technology roadmap across multiple regions and portfolios.

Essential Functions:

• Define and govern enterprise-level architecture and engineering standards, ensuring alignment with global security, compliance, and regulatory requirements.

• Drive automation and platform efficiencies across systems and tools, prioritizing investments that deliver the highest business and operational impact.

• Establish and oversee global operating rhythms, including code quality standards, incident management, on-call excellence, and production readiness.