Engineering Team Lead

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 and be paid.

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Engineering Team Lead

Team Summary

The Engineering Team Lead is accountable to lead 1-2 cross-functional product delivery teams to deliver and maintain one or more areas of the Visa Spend Clarity Product and Platform.

What an Engineering Team Lead does at Visa:

Using your experience of building and coaching highly effective and empowered teams you will work with Product Managers, Practice Leads and other Engineering Management to deliver the best outcomes for our business and customers.

With your people leadership experience, you will be coaching and facilitating a career path for your team encouraging a culture of continuous learning and improvement. You will be responsible for building a highly engaged team who is connected to the products and services they deliver.

Fundamental to the role as an Engineering Team Lead, are the following areas of accountability :

People & Culture - Being a people leader and line manager, nurturing a safe work environment, establishing performance objectives, being a culture advocate

Team & Accountability - Building cohesive, stable teams with the right skills, managing capacity, defining clear purpose, end to end ownership and accountability

Delivery & Operations - Being accountable for the work the teams commit to and deliver upon, maximising the flow and efficiencies of the teams

Why this is important to Visa

You will be part of a team who are growing the capabilities and services in the Visa Sped Clarity to deliver scalable and robust solutions that will take Visa Spend Clarity to more customers and users around the globe.

Visa Spend Clarity is a key focus area with large growth ambitions driven by customer needs and a desire to innovate using modern cloud technologies. Operating with high autonomy this role is accountable for their stream of work to ensure we meet our customer and technical goals.

As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. The company's dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.

At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.

You're an Individual. We're the team for you. Together, let's transform the way the world pays.

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.

Basic Qualification
5+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications
6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• 7+ years working in a Software Development Environment
• 2+ years experience in leading and building highly engaged product engineering teams
• Experience in evolving culture and processes through empowerment and agility
• Experience in working in a rapidly growing technology company
• Ability to work with ambiguity bringing clarity through data and discovery
• Previous experience working with SaaS products and services
What you will need
• Strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Experience in leading, coaching and mentoring people and progressing their careers
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to adapt to the situation and audience
• Demonstratable experience of delivering best in class software products and services in a commercial environment
• Ability to rally people around a cause bringing clarity and direction to achieve positive outcomes
• Experience in leading cross functional software teams.

What will also help
• Demonstratable understanding of agile methodologies including Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean etc
• Experience in Delivery and Engineering Excellence including CI/CD, Dev Ops, Test Automation etc
• Understanding and experience in cloud technologies and platforms (AWS, Azure etc)
• Demonstrated experience leading software teams to deliver value continuously.

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.