Senior Director of Engineering

Summary

Join Visa as a Sr. Director of FX & Treasury Engineering and lead specialized engineering teams across Europe. You will oversee the development of next-generation FX and Treasury systems, ensuring effective global fund movement for payments and FX operations. This role requires hiring top engineering talent, aligning solutions with business objectives, and managing multiple tribes across various domains. You will drive cloud-native application development, leverage AI/ML technologies, and manage cross-functional priorities. The position is remote, offering flexibility while requiring collaboration and strategic leadership.

Requirements

Relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree, Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or a PhD

Responsibilities

• Lead, support, and mentor Directors and Engineering Managers to be more effective leaders, ensuring the growth and retention of top management and engineering talent
• Drive the design and delivery of cloud-native, scalable, resilient, and secure distributed applications
• Advocate for and implement strategic technological decisions that align with business goals
• Foster a culture of innovation and flawless execution within the team
• Lead change across the entire engineering function, promoting best practices and technical excellence
• Be hyper-focused on improving productivity by constantly reducing complexity and waste and leveraging cutting-edge capabilities like ChatGPT and Copilot
• Oversee the development and deployment of high-throughput, low-latency applications in a Cloud-Native world
• Leverage AI/ML technologies to enhance productivity across the SDLC phases and develop innovative business solutions and products
• Manage cross-functional priorities and maintain strong relationships with major stakeholders
• Lead significant projects with a focus on continuous delivery, infrastructure automation, and security implementation
• Use a data-driven, KPI-based approach to improve efficiencies across teams
• Be realistic with capacity and priorities, proactively managing workload to protect the team and prevent overextension
• Promote a collaborative culture by delegating tasks effectively and enabling team growth
• Share knowledge and best practices to enhance team capabilities and drive a shared strategic approach
• Champion cross-team collaboration to maximize output and achieve strategic goals
• Reduce the tendency to micromanage, focusing on strategic goals and allowing teams to operate independently
• Maintain and improve technological excellence, ensuring the team meets 'Elite' status under DORA metrics
• Ensure efficient processes and ease of release across various projects
• Stay abreast of contemporary trends in security risks and technologies, ensuring the team remains ahead of the curve
• Establish engineering best practices for application development, testing, deployment, and monitoring
• Optimize workload management by taking on fewer projects or requesting more support for large projects
• Work on business strategy to define a compelling roadmap focused on growth, collaborating with product management teams
• Effectively communicate technical strategy and engineering solutions to leadership and business stakeholders
• Clearly communicate risks, successes, and learnings in all directions, ensuring alignment with executive-level expectations
• Emphasize strategic planning and execution, focusing on medium- and long-term objectives and key results
• Be highly competent not just on the technical side but also on the product offering and how it is used by customers
• Lead change not just across your domain but the whole engineering function, promoting best practices and technical excellence
• Manage personnel costs with finance busines partners and Technology leadership
• Develop and maintain relationships with providers alongside our sourcing team, negotiating contracts and ensuring the best value for services rendered

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant experience in the FX and/or Treasury domains, with good knowledge of the technology that powers them, together with product exposure
• Extensive experience in designing, developing, and deploying scalable, resilient, and secure cloud applications in mission-critical environments
• Proficiency in backend technologies, including architecture, deployment and operations at all layers of the stack, for both API and Streaming (Kafka) approaches
• Ability to manage multiple tribes and domains, leading with vision and strategic direction
• Expertise in continuous delivery and DevOps practices, including infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, and auditing
• Proven track record in leading, recruiting, growing, and retaining high-caliber talent at scale. Experienced organizing, running, supporting, and growing large technology organizations
• Professional experience in ideation, execution, delivery and supporting products in Production
• Must demonstrate longer-term strategic thinking and staying ahead of state-of-the-art curve to keep abreast with what’s possible technically, operationally, and professionally
• Capable of forming and advocating independent viewpoint. Demonstrate strong skills influencing, negotiating, and communicating
• Strong communication, collaboration, and leadership skills, with the ability to adapt to various situations and audiences
• Understand the Security requirements and standards and contemporary trends in Security risks as well as technologies
• Strong focus on workload management, preventing overextension, and fostering a supportive team environment
• Domain experience in Cross border money movement and Payment Technologies
• Hands-on experience in AI, particularly Generative AI, is highly preferred

Benefits

This is a remote position