Chief Systems Architect - Vas Digital Marketing & Engagement

Job Description
As a Chief Systems Architect in Value Added Services – Digital Marketing &
Engagement organization, you will provide technical leadership/oversight to software architects, engineers as well partnering with your product partners on large and complex projects for Customer Engagement, Loyalty, and Marketing domains. You understand the business imperatives tied to these strategic projects. You provide technology leadership and are the technical expert on strategic projects, drive the release strategy and guide the delivery of strategic projects aligned to business strategy on innovative payment acceptance and integrated commerce management with a focus on simplicity. You maintain awareness of dependencies between projects and delivery vision, while ensuring engineering excellence to the five nines. You build the strategy for your teams to architect, design and deliver the next wave of enterprise FinTech innovation.
Essential Functions:
Technology Leadership:
Drives the architecture for key cross team / cross product development projects (via architecture/design documents and developing code key modules).
Establishes software development patterns and best practices via examples and shipping code.
Drive the coordination, organization and execution of qualitative and quantitative decisions and advise senior management on insights and recommended actions.
Strong and well-honed ability to influence, motivate and collaborate with a wide variety of partners and stakeholders.
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.
Establish best practices in client application development using engineering excellence
True adherence to Visa Leadership Principles (VLPs) with excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills.
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.