Senior Consultant - Software Engineer (Lead Software Engineer)

Job Description

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

The Belfast site has full life cycle responsibility for the delivery of products that are integral to the continued growth and success of CyberSource worldwide. At a site level, security and technical excellence is central to everything we do. We strive to continually improve the availability and resiliency of our products to six 9s and beyond.

In this role you will take a “domain expert” role in the design, build, and enhancement of key products and will take leadership responsibilities for driving technical strategy within the organisation.

In addition, you will be a technical leader within the CyberSource team to ensure the continued development of innovative and inventive solutions for our client base. You will think globally and ensure we continue to architect high performant, scalable systems that are built the “right way”.

The successful candidate will be working in the Click2Pay (Secure Remote Commerce) team in Belfast

What you will do, Day to Day!

• Be at the forefront of translating sophisticated functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design.
• Lead solution designs and ensure these fit within the wider architecture eco-system
• Have significant influence on our strategy by helping define and build the next wave of product features and system architecture.
• Champion Agile to inspire change and continuous improvement throughout the delivery process.
• Utilise your sharp design and coding skills to create applications at a substantial scale which are used by millions of people across the globe.
• Lead and influence key technical decisions and guiding day-to-day development activities by leading architecture decisions, participating in designs, design review, code review, and implementation.
• Utilising your extensive experience, you should be able to mentor and lead key technical staff in solution architecture, development standards and building scalable and robust solutions
• Be motivated by building elegant and maintainable systems that get the job done with minimal complexity.
• Be the ambassador for engineering excellence across the development lifecycle and champion continuous improvement across the site.
• Be an enthusiast for TDD and Continuous Deployment.

Qualifications

Could this be for you? A great candidate for this role will:

• Have a proven-track record within a technical lead role to produce innovative and simple solutions to complex problems.
• Be an established self-starter who possesses a drive to initiate change, raise the technical bar and deliver results.
• Have expert knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software creation process.
• Thrive in building scalable, reliable and high-performance systems.
• Have expertise of Java, JEE technologies, REST and container-based technologies.
• Be comfortable challenging the norm, always on the lookout for new technologies and working with fellow technologists to implement these into the work stream.
• Be advocate for nurturing talent within CyberSource through technical coaching and mentoring etc.
• Have excellent interpersonal skills and enjoy working in a highly iterative, agile and collaborative team environment.
• Have a BS in Software Engineering/Computer Science/IS, or other related field with demonstrable software engineering experience.

Additional Information

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 two days a week.

Visa is an equal opportunities employer. We are strongly committed to equal opportunity and strive to align fully with equal employment laws, ordinances and regulations for all applicants and employees. A place where everyone is accepted everywhere. That is our vision, and our passion. We believe that when each of us are empowered to discover our true potential, what we can do together is limitless.