What are the responsibilities and job description for the Systems Architect position at Visa?
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.
Job Description
What we do
Member of the Visa family since its acquisition in November 2020, YellowPepper's proven platform, Yepex, enables issuers to easily launch card and account agnostic real time payments solutions (P2P, P2M, and Cross-Border, among others) while providing value added services such as tokenization, identity validation and risk tools to deliver a complete transaction and service offering. The company is creating the Next Generation Payment Ecosystem to help financial institutions, retailers, and their customers to transact digitally, with security, anytime and anywhere. Operating in 11 countries, the Miami based global company currently serves 50 clients and 6 million monthly active users.
Our Vision
Create the foundation of the Digital Economy to enable the best and most secure everyday life experience.
Our Mission
To create the next generation Payment Ecosystem to simplify people’s lives
What we are looking for?
YellowPepper is seeking a Enterprise Software Architect. This individual will act as one of the key technology leaders within the organization to provide oversight in building the next generation payments platform for moving funds across various account types (cards, bank accounts, wallets) as well as providing value added services based on product needs.
Primary responsibilities will include:
Provide Architectural leadership and technical vision for Real-Time Payments products and services.
Apply creative thinking/approach to determine technical solutions that further business goals and align with corporate technology strategies, keeping in mind security, performance, reliability, scalability, usability, flexibility, and cost - Essentially define and drive technology standards and best practices for the product development organization
Develop and maintain an architectural roadmap for products and services while ensuring alignment with the business and enterprise architecture strategies and standards. Able to develop, present and explain the value and vision of proposed architectures and solutions to a wide range of audience
Develop strategies to meet business objectives with existing or emerging technologies and articulate technology solutions as well as explain the competitive advantages of various technology alternatives
Oversee and sign-off key architecture artifacts in the group
Build relationships with key architects across technology organizations and collaborate on promoting architectural best practices across technology
Drive internal proof of concept initiatives. When needed, quickly design and implement a prototype of a system or component with a proper architecture, and then hand over to (may lead) a small group of developers to finish
YellowPepper.
This is a remote position. A remote position does not require job duties be performed within proximity of a Visa office location. Remote positions may be required to be present at a Visa office with scheduled notice.
Qualifications
• 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor 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
Preferred Qualifications:
• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or
more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters,
MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
• 4 Years developing spring applications
• 3 years working in an enterprise architecture role
• Knowledge and experience in enterprise architect frameworks, such as
TOGAF, Zachman, or FEAF
• Extensive experience on architecture design of large scale platforms and
application
• Strong understanding and working experience in Distributed Web Architecture
should have experience with service registry, container architecture,
distributed caching, streaming apps, NoSQL and RDBMS
• Hands-on understanding of architecture and operations of highly available and
scalable web service
• Expertise with the Java 8 platform or higher, Spring framework or similar
• Experience in building Microservices, specifically with HTTP, REST, JSON and
XML
• Experience in Advanced Java Script or Angular or React
• Experienced technology leader with a minimum of 15 years of software
development experience including 5 years of application architecture
experience with deep technology expertise
• Knowledgeable in microservice patterns
• Sound understanding of Service and IT operations management and DevOps
model, good knowledge of deployment and capacity planning
• Knowledge of modern development practices such as Kubernetes, Docker, and
cloud technologies. GCP a plus
• Strong understanding of Enterprise Integrations using web services and REST
• Experience developing highly available applications
• Understand the Security requirements and standards and contemporary
trends in Security risks as well as technologies
• Experience with agile development process
• Experience leading customer workshop sessions to elicit non-functional
requirements
• Domain experience in Payment Technologies
• Languages: English (native). Spanish is a plus
Additional Information
Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.
Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.
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.
Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.
U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 113,800.00 to 148,000 USD, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.
