Sr. Manager, Software Engineering

Company Description Visa is a world leader in payments and technology with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers merchants financial institutions and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative convenient reliable and secure payments network enabling individuals businesses and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose - to uplift everyone everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader Join us today and experience Life at Visa Visa s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce We operate the world s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants 15k Financial Institutions and billions of everyday people While working with us you ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows business and data solutions cyber security and B2C platforms Lead and mentor engineering and testing teams in application development and automation for the FP A Platform Provide hands-on technical and functional guidance to enhance team skills and innovation Implement AI ML technologies to develop solutions that improve business value and customer outcomes Design and optimize solutions for complex systems ensuring alignment with industry trends and standards Interpret business requirements into technical designs and specifications Evaluate technologies and implement best practices for engineering Design applications from the ground up including data modeling and user interface design Manage a team of 5 members fostering collaboration and accountability Build and maintain trusted relationships with customers and technology partners Ensure accountability and deliver on business needs with effective planning and execution Collaborate with teams across multiple geographical locations and time zones Provide oversight for managed services work happening in your area Hire retain and grow a high-performing team of software engineers Mentoring and coaching both experienced and new college grads Invest in the career development of direct reports This is a hybrid position Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager Qualifications Basic Qualifications 8 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree e g Masters MBA JD MD or 2 years of work experience with a PhD OR 11 years of relevant work experience Preferred Qualifications Bachelors Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or other related fields with a minimum of 10 years of experience in Application development engineering with at least 2 years of managerial experience Proficient in Java J2EE REST technologies and frameworks like Spring SpringBoot Sprint MVC JPA Hibernate etc Experience in API Development for producers and consumers adhering to all standards for security and reliability Experience in database such as Oracle MYSQL PostgreSQL MongoDB and any of the NOSQL Strong understanding of generative AI models and tools such as GPT Llama and Anthropic etc and using MCP Model Context Protocol Familiarity with GenAI tools such as GitHub copilot chatGPT Claude Copilot for Microsoft 365 and other relevant platforms Experience with system design and tech stack upgrade to build highly available secure maintainable performing and scalable applications Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail Experience in software configuration management with tools development automation GIT Maven Artifactory Jenkins CI CD etc Experience in logging tools such as Splunk Humio etc for Monitoring and Issue triage Experience in driving the production customer reported issues to closure Proven experience delivering highly scalable and available production systems Strong interpersonal facilitation and effective communication skills both written and verbal Strong analytical debugging and problem-solving skills Strong business acumen ability to grasp big picture and explain to team in simple terms Track record of hiring and managing world-class software engineers Experience with Agile methodologies and software development lifecycle principles Experience working with cross-functional cross-geo location with common objective as OneTeam Demonstrated ability to lead and navigate through ambiguity Experience developing leading teams as part of Agile Scrum team Passionate about delivering zero defect code that meet or exceed the proposed defect SLA and have high sense of accountability for quality and timeliness of deliverables Highly driven resourceful and results oriented Additional Information 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