Director

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.

Cyber Security is an integral part of Visa’s corporate culture. It is important to maintaining our position as an industry leader in electronic payments. At Visa, we believe that it is the responsibility of every employee to safeguard information, protect it from unauthorized access, and ensure regulatory compliance. Cyber Security has a significant effect on privacy, consumer confidence, external reputation, and it is a priority on everyone’s agenda.

In this critical leadership role, you will take a lead role in the continued innovation of Visa’s Cyber Security strategy and drive Visa’s competitive advantage in payments by facilitating a best-in-class security infrastructure. You will be responsible for leading a premier engineering team that develops, operates and supports a heterogeneous security infrastructure on a global scale. You will build and lead the Cyber Security Engineering program and lead a team of high performing engineers and analysts. By working with other groups such as Client Engineering, Operations & Infrastructure, VSIRT and other Cyber Security groups, you will help shape the strategy and implement all changes necessary to provide best in class Endpoint security solutions.

 Job Scope

• Instil a culture that works toward the highest standards in security engineering while ensuring that business requirements are understood and adhered to and security risks in new and existing infrastructure are properly understood and mitigated.
• Provide leadership and direction in the implementation of leading-edge security technologies and utilizing a risk-based approach to properly test and introduce them into the overall environment.
• Be passionate in the pursuit of securing Visa’s data and critical assets.
• Recruit, develop, and retain a talented group of technology professionals for this core security engineering function.
• Collaborate with colleagues in technology departments as well as the business and product offices to establish effective, productive business relationships.

General Responsibilities 

• Lead a team of security engineering professionals responsible for planning, design, implementation, attack mitigation and ongoing support of security systems of high complexity to fulfil the business needs.
• Provide technical deep understanding of security systems at different layers. Such as endpoint, advanced malware defence, cloud, networking, data security etc.
• Work with all interfacing teams to define and baseline the system uptime SLAs and KPIs from main security solutions.
• Work with other Cyber Security teams to manage endpoint protections effectively and efficiently. In doing so work closely with research team, undertake research of threat vectors and provide mitigation strategies.
• Work with stakeholders, mentoring and providing technological guidance on network security.
• Manage staff, including selection, goal setting, annual reviews, and compensation planning and career development.
• Provide recommendations to management team to increase effectiveness of organization and technology solutions.
• Develop and nurture team of security team by motivating and mentoring and assist in hiring critical talent.
• Effectively manage cross-functional internal and external team collaboration, and communications.
• Prioritization, planning of projects and features, stakeholder management and tracking of external commitments.
• Respond to and assist with due diligence and internal / external security audit requests.
• Support, implement and promote standard configuration and change management, processes and practices
• Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to security standards and processes.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

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

•Good to have, at least 5+ on penetration testing, security infrastructure tuning / deployment.

•Must have, at least 5+ years of experience and hands-on expertise on Endpoint Security Solutions.

•At least 5+ years of leadership role, which includes managing security experts, mentoring, meeting business goals as leader.

•Experience delivering large scale, highly available security solutions

•Dynamic leader who has directly managed team of highly competent engineers in fast paced work environment.

•Strong business and technical vision.

•Understanding of how to develop and implement the AI strategy aligned with company’s goals.

•Stay updated with the latest advancements in AI and integrate them into the company's projects.

•Work with other departments to integrate AI solutions into products and services.

•Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

•Experience demonstrating strong leadership, self-motivation and accountability.

•Experience on leading complex projects cross-functionally and globally.

•Financial services and card payments experience is a plus.

•Excellent communication skills and excellent team player.

•Relevant certification such as CISSP, SANS GPEN, SANS GXPN, SANS GIAC, SANS GREM, Splunk Certification etc.

•OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional) is a Plus.

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.