What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Engineering position at Visa?
Visa Technology & Operations LLC, a Visa Inc. company, needs a Director of Engineering (multiple openings) in Austin, TX to
- Provide direction and hands on leadership to a team of engineers engaged in application and architecture designs; development, testing and test automation for Billing Platform (includes large volume pricing, rating, billing, account receivables and revenue reporting functions).
- Provide hands on technical and functional expertise, coaching and mentorship to improve skills across the development team and empower the team to be bolder and faster.
- Responsible for personnel management, which includes recruitment, performance, education, training, and career growth.
- Own the application roadmap and delivery.
- Lead engagement with business partner to deliver projects and support systems.
- Lead collaboration activities with business partners on requirements, workflow design, configuration, and business re-engineering.
- Ensure “operational excellence” capabilities (Automation, Agility, Analytics, Resiliency and Monitoring) are assessed, planned and built into the platform.
- Identify and implement opportunities in the platform that will drive improvements in performance, scalability, usability and code re-use.
- Continue to improve business efficiencies while driving down technical debt and cost of ownership.
- Understand complex system architectures and complex functional use cases, design and implement solutions and optimizations while ensuring that team staying current on development and test trends, methodology and standards.
- Ensure security compliance and other NFRs are well defined and are baked into our designs and implementations.
- Ensure quality, completeness and timeliness of all deliverables from the team.
- Deliver transformational leadership so that the team is highly motivated and engaged.
- Manage and track Key Performance Index (KPI) to ensure and maintain high team performance.
- Inspire & contribute to cross-organizational teams working on various innovation projects.
- Position reports to the Austin, Texas office and may allow for partial telecommuting.