Lead System Architect, Cloud

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world.

Progress starts with you.

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.

As Lead Architect (Cloud) you will:

• Lead the design and cloud transformation of our Acceptance Solutions platform.
• Shape and implement cloud architecture across AWS or equivalent ecosystems to deliver scalable, resilient, and secure solutions.
• Define and maintain infrastructure‑as‑code standards and patterns.
• Oversee container‑based deployments and orchestrated cloud environments.
• Partner with product development teams to streamline and optimize cloud‑native delivery.
• Establish best‑practice patterns, reference architectures, and operational processes that enhance engineering effectiveness.
• Champion DevOps principles and promote a culture of automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Drive automation across the software development lifecycle to improve speed, quality, and consistency.
• Embed security controls and governance into all architectural decisions and platform components.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Basic Qualifications

12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 8 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 8 years of work experience with a PhD

Proven knowledge of successful design, architecture and development leveraging cloud technology

A minimum of 3 years' experience with AWS deployments or a similar cloud offering

Continuous delivery and Dev(Sec)Ops experience - infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, auditing and security implementation and practices

Expertise in infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform

Expertise in design patterns, anti-patterns and best practices

Familiarity with Container Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

Sound knowledge of architecture methodologies and modelling

Hands-on experience in Java and/or Kotlin software development, web applications and microservices, REST APIs, technology standards and frameworks

Strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills

Strong business acumen to translate requirements into effective architecture roadmap

Experience with Agile methodologies and software development lifecycle principles

Experience with the application development lifecycle, CI/CD and proficiency in writing maintainable code using TDD/BDD paradigms.

Good understanding of clean code principles – SOLID, KISS, DRY, Clean Architecture.

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.