Chief Architect

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

We are now entering an era of exponential advancement in AI-powered technologies, accelerated by the recent advent of Generative AI (GAI) applications and Large Language Models (LLMs). Visa is leading the industry in its embrace of GAI and LLMs in all areas from client facing innovation Visa is well positioned to pioneer and lead in the current collaboration commerce by leveraging our data for Visa and our clients in growing and optimizing global economy while still protecting the commerce ecosystem. We are at the forefront of new and exciting explorations and discoveries on the power of AI. Our goal is to bring GAI in transformative commerce and with the power of AI, our vision is to bring innovative solutions to our merchants, consumers and banks in terms of offers and deals to drive further revenue growth.
Reporting to the Head of Architecture of the Value Added Services product development organization, the Chief Architect will have a critical role in VISA’s transformation and acceleration of our Generative AI journey.
This role will work closely with the rest of the Technology leadership team in setting the AI/ML roadmap, analyzing and defining the critical initiatives and executing on them with specific focus on:
• Leading the company in the use of next GAI to provide best-in-class commerce applications/services in VAS and create comprehensive solutions for our merchants/consumers/banks.
• Evaluate, develop and deploy immersive technology solutions in the AI & ML space.
• Understand impact of GAI and ChatGPT on Visa’s business and drive solutions across domain areas
• Select features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques.
• Extend company’s data with third party sources of information when needed
• Enhance data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems.
Key Responsibilities
• Drives the architecture for key cross team / cross product development projects (via architecture/design documents and developing code key modules).
• Work with a team of Lead and Chief Architects for Value Added Services domains and work closely with other site leads and stakeholders.
• Establishes software development patterns and best practices via examples and shipping code.
• Ensures that all relevant project teams follow a common set of principles and patterns and utilize a standard set of technology frameworks and libraries.
• Provides leadership across the architecture community to ensure solutions are built in alignment with platform principles and standards.
• Mentors and builds world-class high-performing engineering teams.
• Applies architecture best practices that helps increase execution velocity.
• Develops architectures that are inherently secure, robust, scalable, modular, API-centric and global.
• Influences technology selection for the enterprise.
• Defines deployment topology by working with peers across the technology organization.
• Optimizes use of Visa’s Platforms & Solutions.
• Demonstrates thought leadership through presentations and teaching across Visa.
• Contributes to key Visa and Value Added Services technology initiatives.

 

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.

Qualifications

Basic

Qualifications

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• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA /JD/MD), or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD Preferred

Qualifications

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• 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience
• BS/MS in Computer Science/Computer Engineering, Science, Math
• A minimum of 12 years of experience in architecture and development, 5 years with experience in building data driven frameworks and solutions
• Hands-on experience developing machine learning models and ML/AI based applications and related technologies
• Proven knowledge of successful design, architecture and development using Hadoop with large data volumes
• Possesses a deep understanding of benefits/drawbacks of different integration patterns
• Continuous delivery and Dev Ops experience - infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, auditing and security implementation and practices
• A minimum of 2 years experience with Hadoop and related technologies is required
• A minimum of 3 years experience with RDBMS development (Oracle, DB2, etc.) is required
• Knowledge of NoSQL stores (e.g. HBASE and Cassandra), data sciences, cloud and blockchain technologies is a plus
• Prior knowledge and experience working with Merchant data/information is a plus
• Paper publications, patents and hackathon experience

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 173,100.00 to 225,000 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.