Visa is seeking a seasoned, highly motivated leader to join the Commercial and Money Movement Solutions Product Development (CMS PD) organization as Vice President, Software Engineering reporting to the Senior Vice President, CMS PD.
Commercial and Money Movement Solutions (CMS) is a strategic growth pillar for Visa that will deliver significant revenue for the company over the coming years. CMS is focused on driving Visa’s strategy to expand beyond core Consumer to Business (C2B) payments into broader money movement flows across individuals, businesses, and governments. The CMS PD team within Visa Technology is chartered with building the platforms and product capabilities that will directly enable the growth aspirations of our CMS business.
As Vice President of Software Engineering in CMS PD, you will play a critical leadership role in shaping modern product development practices, harnessing emerging technologies for strategic advantage, and leading innovation initiatives that deliver a highly differentiated and competitive product portfolio for our clients
Essential Functions:
- Provide senior leadership for Visa’s New Zealand technology site, supporting sitewide priorities, engagement, and alignment with global and local organisational goals.
- Partner with business counterparts to develop multi-year strategic outlook plans for the product vertical.
- Define technology strategy for your product vertical in alignment with established business objectives.
- Provide leadership and oversight to a large team (250+) of technology leaders and developers implementing highly scalable, low-latency, high-throughput software systems that have five 9s plus availability.
- Own the planning, design, and delivery of all product development roadmap items for the vertical.
- Establish a culture of engineering excellence with focus on delivering high quality products to production.
- Ensure security and operational posture of the platform meets the highest standards.
- Hire top engineering leaders and talent, provide mentoring, coaching and guidance to your staff.
- Advance developer productivity through the adoption of innovative technologies, including AI-powered engineering tools and automation, enhancing both product quality and delivery efficiency.
- Ensure engineering practices meet the expectations of a regulated financial services environment, upholding compliance, security, and operational integrity.
- Establish a culture that values ownership, accountability and create an environment that enables innovation and continuous improvement.

