Senior Director, Cloud Architect

Job Description
About Us:
Visa’s Acceptance Solutions Professional Services (ASPS) solves problems and accelerates innovation and growth for our merchants, acquirers, issuers, partners, and payment technology providers by providing a range of services including but not limited to technology advisory and consulting, custom development, integration and implementation, technology, and business transformation, developing target state architectures, customer journey mapping, solution development, testing and migration.
Position Overview:
We are looking for a passionate, dynamic and customer focused Cloud Architect leader to join our Professional Services team. The candidate should have a strong technical background in cloud platforms and cloud data domains, should be a thought leader, have exceptional organizational skills, written and verbal communication skills and be an analytical and structured thinker.
The right candidate should have a demonstrable track record of successfully developing cloud architecture frameworks, designing, and delivering modern cloud data platform solutions, cloud migrations, cloud-native solutions and helped drive Cloud Practice growth. We are looking for candidates who have demonstrated excellence in helping clients in their cloud transformation journey, developing roadmaps and blueprints for cloud adoption, building, and leading a team of technical cloud architects and engineers and delivering transformational business outcomes. The successful candidate must be a hands-on person with proven ability to engage in high bandwidth conversations with both business and technology executives.
Key Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership in building proposals, defining, and delivering client engagements in the Cloud domain.
Lead large-scale, complex Cloud transformations including delivering business use cases and outcomes for clients.
Assist from pre-sales to delivery phase by leading customer conversations, building proposals and executing signed deals.
Grow Professional Services Cloud Practice Thought leadership and visibility by activities such as developing whitepapers, case studies, speaking engagements etc.
Work in partnership with Client’s counterparts to drive current state assessment and define target state architecture and roadmaps.
Assess client maturity in adoption of Cloud platforms and technology and suggest improvements.
Create strategy for clients for cloud transformation governance, automation, security, implementation, and operations.
For clients, enable cloud technologies, including configuration of environments, container deployment, and implementation of development tools.
Drive cloud migration initiatives, manage a team of cloud professionals, and collaborate with other leaders in theorganization.
Provide day-to-day leadership in client Cloud transformation engagements.
Responsible for the success of Client Cloud platform implementation and Cloud migration with adherence to Client timeline and budget
Address risk and issues in partnership with the broader Professional Services leadership team.
Manage overall architecture, design, implementation, and testing of Cloud platform projects.
Provide hands-on leadership to a geographically diverse team of architects, engineers, technical product owners and analysts.
Stay abreast of cloud technology trends, advancements, and best practices.
Build and maintain architecture artifacts, design processes and best practices, provide technical oversight to architects and engineers.
Manage partnership with cloud technology providers.
Present technical updates and client progress to leadership and stakeholders
Prototype solutions and develop proof-of-concept.
Promote cross-functional collaboration and engineering excellence.
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.