Director- Engineering (14 - 16 years of experience in Java, Angular/React, GenAI, Microservices)

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 At Visa, the Finance Technology organization empowers revenue operations, pricing strategy, and controllership teams by delivering innovative, next‑generation software solutions. We explore emerging technologies, leverage AI, run proofs of concept, and design scalable systems that streamline complex financial processes. From hands‑on development and integration to quality assurance and production support, we own the full engineering lifecycle. Partnering closely with Finance and Operations leaders, we deliver high‑impact custom applications and implement industry‑leading software that keeps Visa's revenue ecosystem running with precision and scale. If you're energized by tackling large‑scale enterprise challenges and driving innovation in a high‑impact domain, this is the place to make a meaningful mark. The Engineering Director will lead a high‑performing software engineering team responsible for building, modernizing, and supporting Visa's revenue‑related enterprise applications. This leader will define technical direction, champion the adoption of AI‑driven engineering practices, own architectural strategy, elevate engineering standards, and guide the delivery of secure, scalable, and resilient systems that underpin critical financial and operational processes across the company. In this role, you will bring deep technical and functional expertise, with a strong focus on leveraging AI both to accelerate development and to design intelligent solutions for complex business needs. You will motivate the team to experiment, innovate, and apply AI across the engineering lifecycle. You should thrive in a fast‑paced environment, enjoy working across diverse technologies, and be energized by driving automation, efficiency, and enterprise‑wide impact. Key Responsibilities: Define and own the technical and architectural strategy for Visa's revenue‑related enterprise applications, ensuring scalability, performance, security, and resiliency. Drive proofs of concepts and evaluate emerging/open‑source technologies, making informed recommendations and platform decisions that align with enterprise architecture standards. Provide deep technical leadership in application design, including reviewing and guiding functional designs, system architectures, API patterns, and integration strategies. Guide teams in designing robust data models and repositories for both transactional and analytical workloads, and review data‑related designs for quality and scalability. Ensure delivery of high‑quality, production‑ready software through strong engineering best practices, CI/CD pipelines, test automation, observability, and operational excellence. Champion the use of AI across the engineering lifecycle, including AI‑assisted coding, automated testing, code generation, and productivity‑enhancing development workflows. Lead the end‑to‑end design and delivery of Generative AI and ML‑based applications, from concept and prototyping through production deployment and ongoing optimization. Develop, mentor, and grow engineering talent, elevating skillsets in AI, cloud, architecture, and modern engineering practices, while providing consistent performance management. Foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement, encouraging teams to explore new technologies and evolve engineering standards. Lead cross‑functional planning and execution, partnering with Finance, Pricing, Revenue Operations, Controllership, and Enterprise Technology teams to deliver complex multi‑team initiatives. Manage business stakeholder expectations, ensuring clear communication of priorities, technical decisions, delivery timelines, and trade‑offs. Identify and mitigate technical risks and dependencies, ensuring the reliability, availability, and compliance of mission‑critical financial applications. This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager. Qualifications Basic Qualifications: 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, 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 Define and own the technical and architectural strategy for Visa's revenue related enterprise applications, ensuring scalability, performance, security, and resiliency. Drive proofs of concepts and evaluate emerging/open source technologies, making informed recommendations and platform decisions that align with enterprise architecture standards. Provide deep technical leadership in application design, including reviewing and guiding functional designs, system architectures, API patterns, and integration strategies. Guide teams in designing robust data models and repositories for both transactional and analytical workloads, and review data related designs for quality and scalability. Ensure delivery of high quality, production ready software through strong engineering best practices, CI/CD pipelines, test automation, observability, and operational excellence. Champion the use of AI across the engineering lifecycle, including AI assisted coding, automated testing, code generation, and productivity enhancing development workflows. Lead the end to end design and delivery of Generative AI and ML based applications, from concept and prototyping through production deployment and ongoing optimization. Develop, mentor, and grow engineering talent, elevating skillsets in AI, cloud, architecture, and modern engineering practices, while providing consistent performance management. Foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement, encouraging teams to explore new technologies and evolve engineering standards. Lead cross functional planning and execution, partnering with Finance, Pricing, Revenue Operations, Controllership, and Enterprise Technology teams to deliver complex multi team initiatives. Manage business stakeholder expectations, ensuring clear communication of priorities, technical decisions, delivery timelines, and trade offs. Identify and mitigate technical risks and dependencies, ensuring the reliability, availability, and compliance of mission critical financial applications. 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. If you thrive on rapid growth and enjoy working alongside positive, driven teammates, you'll feel right at home here. Help us to uplift everyone, everywhere. Whether you're starting your career, pushing your capabilities or are a seasoned professional, learn how we can partner to reimagine the world. Introduce yourself to our recruiters and we'll get in touch if there's a role that seems like a good match. At Visa, we are driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. Our evolving technology keeps us at the heart of the digital economy, connecting people to 80+ million businesses worldwide. Backed by a resilient, proven model, our expanding network fuels growth—for Visa and for your career. Your journey starts here — discover how we hire Ready to take the next step? Learn more about life at Visa, explore our hiring process and get first-hand insights by hearing directly from our recruiters about what to expect. Apply with confidence today! Learn our recruiting process