Job Description

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging - where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world - helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.



Whats it all about?

Cybersecurity is at the beating heart of our business. Our diligence and expertise is what makes us the undisputed leader in electronic payments. Weve made it our priority to create a top-tier Security Architecture team, poised to defend us against any potential cyber threats.

Were looking for those of you who are inherently driven and fascinated by the art and science of cyber defence. Well equip you with the very best tools and tech so that you can deliver top notch results.

Think you know us?

Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable and secure digital payment network that enables individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

Individuality fuels our brand and our global team - were proud that we are a talented team of 15,000 individuals with unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Therefore, we understand that you are much more than your day job. We encourage quality of life outside of the office, whether its taking advantage of agile work schedules or our wellness programs, Visa respects and encourages meaningful work/life balance for everyone.

So, if youre not satisfied with the status quo, we can satisfy your desire to explore new territory, giving you the runway to really make an impact, whilst connecting you with teams around the world in a truly inclusive culture that celebrates our uniqueness.

If you think you could truly support the security of Visa as a Lead Product Security Architect - Applications, we want to hear from you.



Seeking a highly qualified hands-on engineering manager / leader with experience developing, building and delivering high-performing, scalable, enterprise applications. He/She will be part of a Cybersecurity Security Architecture and Product Engineering team that works on critical applications.

Applying security design principles to develop security solutions architectures

Providing strategic points of view for security solutions

Developing and/or carrying out the strategic direction of security projects to enable execution of the information security strategy.

Developing security solutions to enable execution of the long-term security architecture in the infrastructure security area

Driving security technologies evaluations, proof-of-concepts, and production pilots

Building strong cross-organizational relationships and effectively influencing staff across the IT organization and product groups

Managing lifecycle of security technologies and SDLC

Well experienced and expert in Full stack development and related technology stacks

Working closely with the other technology architects to ensure that security is properly embedded in their technology domains architectures.

Assisting other architects in defining the variance processes and making variance decisions

Experience in delivering comprehensive architecture specifications for complex infrastructure security solutions

Experience with creating technical documentation: product documentation, technology and systems/network architecture, and technical whitepapers.

Experience with open-source security technologies

Strong hands-on cloud architecture, with knowledge and working experience in: OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, Server Virtualization hypervisors (KVM, Xen, Hyper-V, VSphere), Linux Containers technologies (Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes), and distributed computing

Write APIs to integrate various systems like: Hadoop, Oracle, SQL, Active-Directory (AD), SSO.

Strong expertise and experience with Linux and Linux security

Programming/coding and DevOps experience is a plus (Python, Ansible, Chef)

Solid understanding of and ability to speak to security principles in areas such as network, systems, virtualization, cloud technologies, access control.

Some experience with compliance, regulatory and legal requirements relevant to the payments processing industry such as PCI, SOX, Bank of England, and GDPR.

Has good understanding of the SSDLC process and follows the process to effectively develop and design solutions.

Ability to function as an individual contributor and mentor/leader detached from the corporate environment.

Think you have what it takes?

If you are interested in a career that will challenge and inspire you - wed love to hear from you!

Diversity & Inclusion

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere, is not only our brand promise, its the foundation of our company culture. We foster a feeling of connectedness in the workplace, support diversity of thought, culture and background, fight for important initiatives like Equal Pay and actively work to eliminate unconscious biases that hold us all back.

By leveraging the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of our worldwide teams, Visa is a better place to work and a better business partner to our clients.

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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience
• Very strong interpersonal, facilitation, team building and leadership skills along with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise way. Ability to influence and develop relationships with key partners.
• Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Computer Science or other technology field. Typically requires 14+ years of experience in delivering enterprise-class, mission-critical, commercial, and scalable products, at least 3 of which were in the role of an architect or a lead developer.
• A proven record of accomplishment in designing security controls for complex web applications with backend services expertise such as API Gateway, Identity and Access Management Services, Data Protection technologies, Security Information Event Management etc.
• Strong people management and leadership experience for 7+ years
• Extensive Experience with web services standards and related technologies (HTTP(s), REST, JSON, WS*).
• Extensive Experience programming in Java.
• Extensive experience in API design and in system and component design.
• Extensive Experience working with a variety of Applications Servers and Databases (primarily Tomcat, Oracle). Other database, MongoDB, Cassandra is a Plus.
• Experience in Micro Services, Service Mesh, Containers, DevOps is a big plus
• Experience in Web security, APIs Security is a must
• Experience in distributed computing, Microservices
• Strong knowledge of deep design review and Secure Development Lifecycle methodologies, Agile based methodologies, middleware platforms, development platforms (Java, C, C++, .NET etc.)
• Strong experience building applications from scratch both in Linux & Windows Operating Systems.
• Strong Development in Java, Spring Boot, Microservice API while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design to testing, designing, developing and delivering high-volume, low-latency applications for critical systems
• Strong experience in Shell Script and power shell
• Strong experience with web technologies and web frameworks (Angular JS 5+/Express/Node/CSS,HTML etc.)
• Strong Experience with MySQL, MongoDB, Tomcat
• Experience with Microservices & containerization (Docker)
• Skilled at building web services (i.e. REST, SOAP).
• Experience with AD & SSO integration
• Working knowledge of platform and CI/CD pipeline (Kubernetes, Jenkins)
• Knowledge of Software development in either of C/Objective-C/C++/Swift/Java
• Technical experience with security technologies including, but not limited to, intrusion detection/prevention, event correlation, firewall, antivirus, anti-spam, policy enforcement, patch/configuration management, usage monitoring, audit, secure application development, etc.
• Payments industry experience is a plus

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.

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