The Value-Added Services Product Development (VAS PD) team drives the diversification of Visa revenue with products that differentiate Visa network and deliver valuable solutions across other networks. Risk and Security Solutions (RAS) team in VAS focuses on innovative, AI-driven risk and fraud management solutions for issuers, merchants and fintech's.
The Sr. Director of Engineering in the RAS Product Development team will be responsible for leading the technology strategy, solution, and execution of initiatives that support our business objectives. This role focuses on Integrated Risk Platform that supports all Risk and Security products such as Visa Enhanced Authentication, Decision Manager, Visa Risk Manager, Identity etc.
Essential Functions :
- Define and drive the enterprise engineering and cloud strategy, aligning with business and product goals to accelerate innovation, scalability, and time to market.
- Lead adoption of Generative AI and Agentic AI across the SDLC, delivering up to 10X developer productivity and enabling differentiated, AI鈥憄owered business solutions.
- Provide senior technology leadership for cloud鈥慺irst platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), ensuring systems are secure, resilient, cost鈥憃ptimized, and engineered for 5 9s+ availability.
- Establish and enforce modern engineering excellence, including CI/CD automation, DevOps, testing, observability, and architectural standards to ensure reliability and quality at scale.
- Lead, mentor, and grow high鈥憄erforming, multi鈥慸isciplinary engineering teams, fostering a culture of ownership, inclusion, accountability, and continuous learning.
- Partner closely with Product, Security, Privacy, and Governance leaders to define joint product and technology roadmaps and deliver compliant, scalable solutions that meet non鈥慺unctional requirements.
- Drive delivery of secure, interoperable, and fit鈥慺or鈥憄urpose platforms and products, balancing speed with long鈥憈erm architectural integrity and operational excellence.
- Communicate technical vision and execution plans clearly to executives and stakeholders, influencing decision鈥憁aking and aligning engineering outcomes with business KPIs and leadership principles.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.