Vice President Engineering, Open Banking

Visa is seeking a seasoned and forward‑thinking engineering leader to head our Open Banking Technology organization. As open banking rapidly expands, Visa is investing heavily across payments, data, risk solutions, and AI‑driven innovation—and this role is central to shaping that future.

In this position, you will lead a 200+ person engineering team distributed across multiple global locations, driving the strategy, delivery, and scale of Visa’s next‑generation Open Banking products. You will play a key role in expanding into new markets, strengthening product quality and security, and accelerating innovation across the portfolio. Partnering closely with product, business, and executive teams, you will help define and deliver the next phase of Visa’s open banking growth journey.

As Vice President of Engineering, you will be a key leader in our organization—chartered to infuse next‑generation thinking into product development practices, anticipate and leverage emerging technologies for strategic advantage, and drive innovation initiatives to deliver a highly differentiated product offering to our clients. You will also champion an AI‑first mindset, ensuring that machine learning, large language models, automation, and intelligent developer tooling are deeply embedded into how we design platforms, build products, and operate at global scale.

Essential Functions:

• Strategic & Technology Leadership for Open Banking
  Define the long‑term business and technology strategy for the Open Banking vertical, aligning platform vision, product roadmap, and enterprise objectives.
• End‑to‑End Product & Platform Ownership
  Lead planning, architecture, and delivery of all Open Banking roadmap commitments, ensuring platforms are highly scalable, secure, and compliant.
• Large‑Scale Engineering Leadership & Talent Development
  Oversee a global 200+ engineering organization, recruit top leaders, cultivate an AI‑first, high‑performance culture with strong mentoring, coaching, and technical excellence.
• Engineering Excellence, Quality, and Operational Integrity
  Champion rigorous engineering practices, continuous improvement, and best‑in‑class security, reliability, and compliance across all systems.
• Culture of Accountability, Innovation & Modernization
  Foster ownership, empowerment, and sustained innovation while driving modernization toward cloud‑native, real‑time, AI‑ready platforms and data foundations.
• AI Strategy, Client Solutions Innovation & LLM Integration
  Develop and execute an enterprise AI strategy that enhances client solutions (fraud detection, risk insights, personalization). Deliver high‑value ML/LLM use cases—including support automation and intelligent payment workflows.
• Developer Productivity & AI‑Enhanced Engineering Practices
  Accelerate engineering velocity and quality through adoption of AI‑powered developer tools, intelligent CI/CD, and modern engineering best practices.
• Cloud AI Services & Scalable Platform Architecture
  Define and govern cloud AI architecture using AWS/GCP/Azure services, vector databases, and real‑time inference systems optimized for scale, cost, and compliance.
• Executive, Board, and Regulatory Representation
  Represent technology in board‑level discussions, regulatory reviews, and executive forums, articulating strategy, risk posture, and platform outcomes.