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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 Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.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.

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Job Description This role reports to the Head of Operations & Infrastructure and is responsible for responsible for leading a Distributed Systems Engineering and Architecture teams globally. The team is responsible for architecture and engineering of hardware and software for compute, storage and the software that supports them including virtualization, containers, automation and infrastructure as code. The team has the responsibility for designing, deploying and managing solutions throughout their full system lifecycle.

In this role you will be accountable for designing and building innovative infrastructure solutions to support a massively scaled and high throughput environment in both private and public cloud datacenters. The position interacts with senior leadership within Visa and with a diverse set of vendors. You will drive key technology, platform and tooling decisions balancing technical, practical and application considerations. Extensive experience managing engineering teams as a hands on technical leader is a must. We are looking for a strong, passionate, seasoned, and innovative technology leader who will be a part of the Technology Leadership team and work collaboratively across Visa with different stakeholders to deliver commercial services to our clients. This is an incredibly senior and transformational role, and one of autonomy and next generation thinking.

Responsibilities Lead a team of approximately 170 located across the globe in locations in the US, UK, Singapore and India. Develop technology strategies and roadmaps to meet business objectives with emerging technologies by partnering with Technology and Product stakeholders Design and implement agile innovative infrastructure solutions that take advantage of technology advances resulting standardization, cost reduction and performance. Provide Compute as a Service offering to internal customers that are easy to consume, elastic, secure and reliable using Open Source based Cloud/ Container solutions. Partner with all the teams to design, implement and integrate Open Source based private cloud/ Containers platform in Visa's data centers across the globe, enable the cloud solution to interoperate smoothly with existing IT infrastructure and processes, ensure security, availability and agility. Implement programs to reduce surface attack area through adoption of minimalistic operating systems Drive the adoption f standard toolsets to reduce complexity and support Operational goals for increasing automation across the enterprise Apply creative thinking/approach to determine technical solutions that further business goals and align with corporate technology strategies, while considering security, performance, reliability, scalability, usability, flexibility, and cost Provide resource plans, budget tracking and forecasting. Manage the team to achieve target scope, schedule and cost objectives Manage CAPEX/ OPEX for large initiatives. Drive requirement for vendor contracts and negotiation.Qualifications Basic Qualifications 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 10 years of experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 8 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications 15 or more years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, PhD) * 15+ years of experience work experience in building and running global scale operational platforms and distributed systems. At least 10+ years in high scale always-on SaaS platforms. * Proven ability to lead with passion and execute vision with little guidance * Ability to provide technical thought leadership and management in building always on infrastructure that mees and exceeds architecture and uptime and availability 99.9999% and more * Prior hands-on experience in designing, building and implementing cloud and container infrastructure solutions. * Experience in building automated solutions to provision, configure and decommission infrastructure components and stacks. * Prior experience with x86 hardware, virtualization, operating system, containers and deployment of infrastructure for large enterprises is also required. Mainframe experience is desirable. * Extensive technology background in the x86 hardware, virtualization, operating system, compute, containers and tools ecosystem to manage