Senior Manager - SW Engineering (Java, Angular, SQL)

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 and be paid.

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

Job Description

As a Senior Manager, you will be part of Payment Products Development Team and will provide hands-on leadership to the team to solving challenging business problems in an agile development environment by hiring and building a world-class team of engineers, defining, executing and delivering functional and non-functional features at scale quickly and promoting a culture of cross-functional collaboration and engineering excellence. This position is based in Bangalore and will report to the Director. Candidate must be flexible and willing to switch tasks based on team's needs. 

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and oversight to a team of software engineers

• Deliver the product with moderately complex technical interdependencies with cross geographical teams.

• Actively participate in Solution design, architecture and development of key initiatives. Ensure developed solutions adhere to established architectural best patterns and target state. 

• Foster the culture of Engineering Excellence(quality, security, performance, scalability, availability, resilience etc.) , CI/CD, Automation and Shift-Left.

• Hire, retain and grow a high-performing team of software engineers.

• Invest in the career development of direct reports.

• Create an engineering culture of creativity and innovation.

• Provide technical leadership to development team by participating in design, performing design reviews and code reviews.

• Provide technical leadership for quality assurance and test engineering activities – manual and automation

• Lead scrum ceremonies and program management activities. Play a crucial role in interfacing with business stakeholders to define solutions and requirements, prioritise, and drive execution using agile methodologies.

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:
8+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience
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
12+ years of relevant experience with 3+ years experience leading teams. Number of years of relevant experience is little flexible if you have excellent track record
Expertise with the Java/J2EE and Web technologies like Spring Boot, Javascript, JSON, and JQuery
Expertise with Spring, Angular, and Hibernate frameworks
Experience in REST web services.
Knowledge and working experience on Git/Stash, Jenkins, and Jira
Experience with database technologies like MySQL, Redis and SQL
Deep knowledge of Unix/Linux
Experience in working with Agile and DevOps frameworks
Experience using frameworks and tools like Selenium, Cucumber, TestNg, Maven
Knowledge of Automated Test-Driven Development or Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Knowledge of CICD tools like Jenkins, Bamboo
Proven experience delivering highly scalable and available production systems.
Strong analytical, problem solving and communication/articulation and reporting skills.
Strong business acumen, ability to grasp big picture and explain to team in simple terms.
Track record of hiring and managing world-class software engineers.
Experience with Agile methodologies, leading scrum ceremonies and software development lifecycle principles
Ability to manage multiple competing top priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Good written and verbal communication skills. Ability to effectively communicate the logic and implementation plan to team members & managers
Quick learner: self-starter, detailed and thorough
Demonstrate Visa's core values and maintain a positive and open demeanor
Payment processing background is a big plus
Good to Have
Experience in open-source Big Data ecosystem (Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Kafka)
Experience in Load runner scripting and execution, Docker, AI Testing

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.